rend asunder

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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

We have had to literally rend asunder the heavy wheel that had the divine face of truth.

From The Doctrine and Practice of Yoga by Mukerji, A. P.

With all his strength he strove to rend asunder the heavy steel chain, but it resisted his every effort.

From Mischievous Maid Faynie by Libbey, Laura Jean

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.

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