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 Jules Verne
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
The Minstrel's loud—though a little late; What he hopes to gain some wonder; But he swears that harp shall preserve the State, Which his foes would rend asunder.
From Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, May 27, 1893 by Sir F. C. (Francis Cowley) Burnand
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
With all his strength he strove to rend asunder the heavy steel chain, but it resisted his every effort.
From Mischievous Maid Faynie by Laura Jean Libbey
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