rend asunder

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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'

ATHENIAN: In this discordant and inconsistent fashion does the language of the many rend asunder the honourable and just.

From Laws by Jowett, Benjamin

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.

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

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