rend asunder
Example Sentences
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ATHENIAN: In this discordant and inconsistent fashion does the language of the many rend asunder the honourable and just.
From Laws by Benjamin Jowett
With all his strength he strove to rend asunder the heavy steel chain, but it resisted his every effort.
From Mischievous Maid Faynie by Laura Jean Libbey
One thing Hogni Had for answer, Fallen from his high heart, Full of all trouble: "More greeting yet, O Gudrun, for thee, If my heart the ravens Should rend asunder!"
From The Story of the Volsungs, (Volsunga Saga) With Excerpts from the Poetic Edda by William Morris
In this chant it asserted itself still more savagely, for it threatened to strike the waters, and break in pieces the mountains, and to rend asunder the depths of heaven by thunder-bolts.
From En Route by J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans
You have enveloped your heart in a veil which you do not wish to rend asunder, even before your own vision.
From Mohammed Ali and His House by Mrs. Chapman Coleman
