rend asunder

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The 1, 8, 4, 12 is to rend asunder.

From St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, October 1878, No. 12 by Dodge, Mary Mapes

In this way does the language of the many rend asunder the just and honourable.

From Laws by Jowett, Benjamin

Tremendous new forces would rend asunder the Earth, its moon, and Antrid.

From The Copper-Clad World by Vincent, Harl

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 Grimké, Archibald Henry

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.