rend the air
Example Sentences
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Some are stunned into silence, others burst out in self-destructive rage; two gins rend the air with mourning wails that continue into the night.
From Time Magazine Archive
Let strains harmonious rend the air; For see, the godlike hero's here!
From Home Pastimes; or Tableaux Vivants by Head, James H.
Hence, we shall wait, and mark his future course, ere we rend the air with shouts that he is born at last.
From Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject by Elliott, E. N.
Now he is at the top; now—hurrah!—how the shouts rend the air, for he has the boy in one arm and the girl in the other, and tells the mother to follow.
From Hot corn: Life Scenes in New York Illustrated by Robinson, Solon
That head could tower disdainful, like a noble bird of prey whose cries rend the air, or bow resigned, like the turtle-dove whose voice sheds tenderness in the depths of the silent forest.
From The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories by Balzac, Honor? de
