rend asunder

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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

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 Mitford, Bertram

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 Holmes, Oliver Wendell

For when Napoleon bade farewell to his trusty soldiers, it was in these words: "Be faithful to the new sovereign of France; do not rend asunder our beloved and long-suffering land."

From Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. I by Fleury de Chaboulon, Pierre Alexandre Édouard, baron

Men were now seen to contend for knowledge, and strove to rend asunder the dishonourable bonds which, in a more animal condition, had been riveted upon them.

From The Student-Life of Germany by Howitt, William