Nature chose for a tool, not the earthquake or lightning to rend and split asunder, not the stormy torrent or eroding rain, but the tender snow-flowers noiselessly falling through unnumbered centuries. From LearnThat.org. [John Muir (1838-1914)]
Until I nearly rend the veil and see it all again. From Wordnik.com. [Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume VIII, No 25: May 21, 1887] Reference
Earthquakes that rend the rocks with dreadful span. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet"] Reference
It seemed as if some great agony would rend his being. From Wordnik.com. [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference
She cannot rend the chain which binds ye twain together. From Wordnik.com. [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference
And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the. From Wordnik.com. [An Explanation of Luther's Small Catechism] Reference
He shall not uncover his head: he shall not rend his garments. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 03: Leviticus The Challoner Revision] Reference
It came in all its affection and beauty only to sear and rend. From Wordnik.com. [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference
Weep, weep, and rend your hair for those who never shall return. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8] Reference
Almost to tear that woman to pieces -- to crush her -- to rend her!. From Wordnik.com. [The Crooked House] Reference
Errors, omissions and greed can rend family relationships for generations. From Wordnik.com. [Financial Planning: Wills And Other Ways] Reference
Weapon like words — knives, arrows, bullets rend the flimsy armor of false beliefs. From Wordnik.com. [Words] Reference
"O that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest comedown," saith the prophet. From Wordnik.com. [The Riches of Bunyan] Reference
On élève toujours des chevaux, même si la voiture rend des services plus performants. From Wordnik.com. [Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas] Reference
Actors are not always willing to stand baiting quietly: they turn and rend their tormentors. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878] Reference
How it may end, and whether it is to be the last that shall rend unhappy Spain, who can tell?. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845.] Reference
She threw herself down, and buried her beautiful face, sighing as if her heart would rend in twain. From Wordnik.com. [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference
However deep the agony that moves him, he cannot rend the cloud that interposes between him and his Maker. From Wordnik.com. [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference
O that thou wouldst rend the heavens, and wouldst come down: the mountains would melt away at thy presence. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 27: Isaias The Challoner Revision] Reference
And he plunged into the darkness, and the thunders roared as if the heavens would rend themselves in twain. From Wordnik.com. [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference
And as thou became larger, thou didst learn to rend the trees in winter and to cover all the lakes with ice. From Wordnik.com. [Finnish Legends for English Children] Reference
Her presence caused the brave warrior to tremble with horror and rend his clothes when he remembered his vow. From Wordnik.com. [My Three Days in Gilead] Reference
And the king and all his servants that heard all these words were not afraid, nor did they rend their garments. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 28: Jeremias The Challoner Revision] Reference
Of a surety, I would not betray to you my lord, not though you were to rend my life out of my body, if I knew it. From Wordnik.com. [Cligés. English] Reference
Nevertheless, in thy days I will not do it, for David thy father's sake: but I will rend it out of the hand of thy son. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 11: 3 Kings The Challoner Revision] Reference
After he has landed and informed the assembly of his victory over the Turks, shouts of joy and exultation rend the air. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference
Uncover not your heads, and rend not your garments, lest perhaps you die, and indignation come upon all the congregation. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 03: Leviticus The Challoner Revision] Reference
Eagle shall each of them turn and between them rend the truth and nothing but the truth from the lying carcase of calumny. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Lal A Fantasy] Reference
She owed her sanctity to the fact that this rough son of Nature loved her with a love that seemed to rend his heart in twain. From Wordnik.com. [Colorado Jim] Reference
For the Lord will do to thee as he spoke by me, and he will rend thy kingdom out of thy hand, and will give it to thy neighbour David. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 09: 1 Kings The Challoner Revision] Reference
Anti-immigrant laws and sentiments express the worst aspects of our Americanism, and threaten to irreparably rend the fabric of society. From Wordnik.com. [Randall Amster: Phoenix Rising ... and the Struggle Continues] Reference
"Och, Aileen, darlin ', me heart's in smithereens, and I'm that deep in trouble that me head's like to rend -- an' Jim's all broke up --". From Wordnik.com. [Flamsted quarries] Reference
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