rend asunder
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The mighty struggle was to rend asunder these new-formed and holy ties.
From Mark Hurdlestone Or, The Two Brothers by Susanna Moodie
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
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 Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The first and foremost is the bond of family relationship, which is not an efficient unity, for how often it happens that disagreement and divergence rend asunder this close tie of association.
From The Promulgation of Universal Peace by `Abdu'l-Bahá
This was the nation which the Secessionists proposed to rend asunder.
From The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement by George Spring Merriam
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