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 Twice Told Tales by Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

From The Copper-Clad World by Vincent, Harl

I love it too well; I want the severing hand of trial to rend asunder the thousand evil passions which connect me with it.

From Memoir of Mary L. Ware, Wife of Henry Ware, Jr. by Hall, Edward B.

It would rend asunder the newly formed ties between us, would call up the old strife, the old bitterness again.

From Under a Charm, Vol. III. (of III) A Novel by Werner, E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers)

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