rend asunder
Example Sentences
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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
Tremendous new forces would rend asunder the Earth, its moon, and Antrid.
From The Copper-Clad World by Vincent, Harl
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.
ATHENIAN: In this discordant and inconsistent fashion does the language of the many rend asunder the honourable and just.
From Laws by Jowett, Benjamin
The mighty struggle was to rend asunder these new-formed and holy ties.
From Mark Hurdlestone Or, The Two Brothers by Moodie, Susanna
