rend asunder
Example Sentences
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While endeavoring to tear up and rend asunder the Constitution, its strong fibres have recoiled, and caught them in the cleft.
From The Works of Daniel Webster, Volume 1 by Daniel Webster
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 Nathaniel Hawthorne
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 Bertram Mitford
S: The hour drew nigh and the moon did rend asunder.
From Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side by Abdullah Yusuf Ali
The 1, 8, 4, 12 is to rend asunder.
From St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, October 1878, No. 12 by Mary Mapes Dodge
