rend asunder

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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

And whenever it is attempted to be stretched over them, it will rend asunder.

From American Eloquence, Volume 1 Studies In American Political History (1896) by Johnston, Alexander

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 Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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 Ali, Abdullah Yusuf

While endeavoring to tear up and rend asunder the Constitution, its strong fibres have recoiled, and caught them in the cleft.

From The Works of Daniel Webster, Volume 1 by Webster, Daniel