pull to pieces
Example Sentences
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Nearly all modern virtuosi pull to pieces the wings of this gay little butterfly.
From Chopin : the Man and His Music by Huneker, James
The walls are generally about six inches in thickness and are very difficult to pull to pieces.
From A Book of Natural History Young Folks' Library Volume XIV. by Jordan, David Starr
As she talked, Hertha continued to play with the flowers, which she separated, arranged, and rearranged, but at last wearying of them she began to pull to pieces the nosegay she had so ardently coveted.
From Saint Michael A Romance by Werner, E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers)
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
He tried to pull to pieces, destroy, and discredit the evidence that had been given in; but all to no purpose.
From Self-Raised Or, From the Depths by Southworth, Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte
