rend asunder
Example Sentences
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The first and foremost is the bond of family relationship, which is not an efficient unity, for how often it happens that disagreement and divergence rend asunder this close tie of association.
From The Promulgation of Universal Peace by `Abdu'l-Bahá
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 From Twice Told Tales by Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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 Coleman, Chapman, Mrs.
We have had to literally rend asunder the heavy wheel that had the divine face of truth.
From The Doctrine and Practice of Yoga by Mukerji, A. P.
In this way does the language of the many rend asunder the just and honourable.
From Laws by Jowett, Benjamin
