rend asunder

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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 Hawthorne, Nathaniel

The Minstrel's loud—though a little late; What he hopes to gain some wonder; But he swears that harp shall preserve the State, Which his foes would rend asunder.

From Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, May 27, 1893 by Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), Sir

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

From Laws by Jowett, Benjamin

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 Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d'

I then desired to pierce the distant haze, and to rend asunder the mysterious curtain that hung across the horizon.

From A Journey to the Interior of the Earth by Verne, Jules