rend asunder

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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.

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

It was said of Phidias's Jupiter seated in Olympus, that were he ever to stand erect the sudden uprising would rend asunder the vaulted roof.

From The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine by Heine, Heinrich

S: The hour drew nigh and the moon did rend asunder.

From Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side by Ali, Abdullah Yusuf

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.