pull to pieces

Example Sentences

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I know of none—except indeed as to—” Rolf stopped to peel off, and pull to pieces, some of the bark of the pine trunk on which he was sitting.

From Feats on the Fiord The third book in "The Playfellow" by Martineau, Harriet

I can pull to pieces anything that attacks me.

From The Original Fables of La Fontaine Rendered into English Prose by Fredk. Colin Tilney by Tilney, Frederick Colin

Don't pull to pieces or take out titles and indexes.

From A Library Primer by Dana, John Cotton

Look at the exquisite fitting in any seed-vessel that you pull to pieces: the seeds are as close as they will go, but fenced off from crowding on each other and hindering each other's growth.

From Parables of the Christ-life by Trotter, I. Lilias

This was all true; for ever since, when I have begged clothing of any one, the constant answer has been, that, no doubt, I wanted a piece of cloth to pull to pieces.

From The Book of Noodles Stories of Simpletons; or, Fools and Their Follies by Clouston, William Alexander