rend asunder
Example Sentences
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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
In this chant it asserted itself still more savagely, for it threatened to strike the waters, and break in pieces the mountains, and to rend asunder the depths of heaven by thunder-bolts.
From En Route by J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans
S: The heavens may almost rend asunder from above them and the angels sing the praise of their Lord and ask forgiveness for those on earth; now surely Allah is the Forgiving, the Merciful.
From Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side by Abdullah Yusuf Ali
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
