rend asunder

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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 Hawthorne, Nathaniel

The first and foremost is the bond of family relationship, which is not an efficient unity, for how often it happens that disagreement and divergence rend asunder this close tie of association.

From The Promulgation of Universal Peace by `Abdu'l-Bahá

In this chant it asserted itself still more savagely, for it threatened to strike the waters, and break in pieces the mountains, and to rend asunder the depths of heaven by thunder-bolts.

From En Route by Huysmans, J.-K. (Joris-Karl)

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)

This controversy over the Sabbath proved the thin edge of differences and dissensions, which, as they went deeper and deeper, were finally to rend asunder the erstwhile united Abolition movement.

From William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist by Grimké, Archibald Henry