rend asunder
Example Sentences
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S: The heaven shall rend asunder thereby; His promise is ever brought to fulfillment.
From Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side by Abdullah Yusuf Ali
ATHENIAN: In this discordant and inconsistent fashion does the language of the many rend asunder the honourable and just.
From Laws by Benjamin Jowett
In this way does the language of the many rend asunder the just and honourable.
From Laws by Benjamin Jowett
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
Men were now seen to contend for knowledge, and strove to rend asunder the dishonourable bonds which, in a more animal condition, had been riveted upon them.
From The Student-Life of Germany by William Howitt
