rend asunder
Example Sentences
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Now is the time to show forth the true signs of God, to rend asunder the veils of idle fancy, to promote the Word of God, and to sacrifice ourselves in His path.
From Memorials of the Faithful by `Abdu'l-Bahá
I love it too well; I want the severing hand of trial to rend asunder the thousand evil passions which connect me with it.
From Memoir of Mary L. Ware, Wife of Henry Ware, Jr. by Edward B. Hall
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
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 Archibald Henry Grimké
It will perhaps be said, that the refusal to believe in these systems, will rend asunder one of the most powerful bonds of society, by making the sacredness of an oath vanish.
From The System of Nature, Volume 2 by Paul Henri Thiry, baron d'Holbach
