rend asunder
Example Sentences
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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 Nathaniel Hawthorne
The mighty struggle was to rend asunder these new-formed and holy ties.
From Mark Hurdlestone Or, The Two Brothers by Susanna Moodie
This was the nation which the Secessionists proposed to rend asunder.
From The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement by George Spring Merriam
The ship is made to struggle with the elements, and the giant has been tamed to obedience, and is manacled in bonds which an earthquake would hardly rend asunder.
From Our Hundred Days in Europe by Oliver Wendell Holmes
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 Bertram Mitford
