rend asunder

Example Sentences

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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.

It was said of Phidias's Jupiter seated in Olympus, that were he ever to stand erect the sudden uprising would rend asunder the vaulted roof.

From The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine by Heine, Heinrich

I then desired to pierce the distant haze, and to rend asunder the mysterious curtain that hung across the horizon.

From A Journey to the Interior of the Earth by Verne, Jules

"Not if she is asking for me," said Rachel, moving on, her heart feeling as if it would rend asunder, but her looks composed.

From Clever Woman of the Family by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

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 Ali, Abdullah Yusuf