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 Jowett, Benjamin
Looking fiercely up with a madman's impulse to struggle with and rend asunder his opponent, he found himself powerless beneath a calm, stern eye which possessed the mysterious property of quelling frenzy at its height.
From Twice Told Tales by Hawthorne, Nathaniel
A network was around him—around them both—which even Helston Varne’s acumen and infinite resource would be powerless to rend asunder.
From The Heath Hover Mystery by Mitford, Bertram
This controversy over the Sabbath proved the thin edge of differences and dissensions, which, as they went deeper and deeper, were finally to rend asunder the erstwhile united Abolition movement.
From William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist by Grimké, Archibald Henry
The mighty struggle was to rend asunder these new-formed and holy ties.
From Mark Hurdlestone Or, The Two Brothers by Moodie, Susanna
