rend asunder
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By-and-bye the land, as if by some magic power, seems to rend asunder, and we find ourselves in a narrow channel, with well-wooded eminences on either hand, clothed with handsome fir trees.
From In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83 by Smith, J. J.
It would rend asunder the newly formed ties between us, would call up the old strife, the old bitterness again.
From Under a Charm, Vol. III. (of III) A Novel by Werner, E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers)
S: The hour drew nigh and the moon did rend asunder.
From Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side by Ali, Abdullah Yusuf
The 1, 8, 4, 12 is to rend asunder.
From St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, October 1878, No. 12 by Dodge, Mary Mapes
It will perhaps be said, that the refusal to believe in these systems, will rend asunder one of the most powerful bonds of society, by making the sacredness of an oath vanish.
From The System of Nature, Volume 2 by Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d'
