| 单词 | rending |
| 例句 | As we approached the end of the pass the rain-clouds were thinning and rending. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z But there was a rending, tearing noise of work going on inside. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Make that rending, not rendering, and it’s one solid word. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z But after a few minutes of frenzied whirling, pouncing, rending, and clawing, Brute’s killing urge left him. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z At his summons, wheeling with a rending cry, in a last desperate race there flew, faster than the winds, the Nazgûl, the Ringwraiths, and with a storm of wings they hurtled southwards to Mount Doom. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z The trees, swung by strong arms, smote the timbers with a rending boom. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Out of the black sky there came dropping like a bolt a winged shape, rending the clouds with a ghastly shriek. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z He heard the cataclysmic rending of stone and metal as the ground gave way. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z I heard a piercing shriek that sounded like rending metal. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z What did that have to do with this momentous rending of the veil, I wondered. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Davos never saw the battle joined, but he heard it; a great rending crash as two galleys came together. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Hard hands with rending nails gripped and lifted him. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Instantly his followers scrambled into the bushes as their Chief ripped the tapestry into shreds, his mighty claws rending and tearing as he roared madly: “It’s a fake, a copy, worthless trash. Aaaaaarrgh!” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Angry growls and the rending of grass from beneath the net on the ground heralded Constance’s awakening. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z “I don’t really feel like rending someone apart,” mourned Do, even as his fur turned more bristly and his fangs elongated. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Slowly, Hel rips it free, rending the flesh of my neck as the metal releases. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z A spark flashed blue- white as steel met steel with a rending crash, and Brienne sprang to her feet, the body of the dead king thrust rudely aside. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z From her earliest childhood that scream came, with a memory of flowing, spotted skin and rending claws, and later of Ambuya tearing out her hair when they brought Mother’s bones home from the forest. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It was nice to see him, but always by the end of the dream he was gone, and in some horrible rending kind of way. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z A rending, splintering sound made them all look back at the house. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z It felt desperately, desperately rending and uncomfortable, as if some great disturbance, toxicity, discomfort was the result.” Film: ?Bourne? Team Takes a Chance With Iraq War 2010-02-27T02:51:00Z Hear how, alongside precision, the purity of sound — in the strings, and in Lucile Richardot’s robust yet smooth tone — maintains rending beauty and a softly dancing lilt. Best Classical Music Tracks of 2022 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z A sense of impermanence and possible disaster is always very close in Eggers’s work — here it’s sometimes devouring — and that is what makes his good nature and hopefulness so rending, and so necessary. ‘A Hologram for the King,’ by Dave Eggers 2012-07-20T17:08:36Z I think "Faith" was perfection, if one can describe such a rending portrayal of ultimate loss in this manner. ‘Outlander’ Season 2, Episode 7: Of Love and Sacrifice 2016-05-21T04:00:00Z Yet between these passages is also astonishing beauty, even the sublime: rending melodies fit for lullabies, ethereal humming that hovers delicately, like a visiting spirit. The Unsingable Music That Stumped a Diva 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z He produces a knife, trails it lightly across her naked body and between her lips, then slashes her from both corners of her mouth, while she emits a rending scream. | 'House of Pleasures': ?House of Pleasures,? Directed by Bertrand Bonello - Review 2011-11-24T20:57:57Z But in their monologues, melodies take flight: long, lyrical lines — lushly delivered by Bullock with rending emotion — that are amplified, complicated and contradicted by orchestral undercurrents. Review: In ‘Upload,’ Do Blockchains Dream of Electric Lizards? 2021-10-03T04:00:00Z She waited, for the slam, the rending or the rupture, whatever dreadful thing was coming. Wilderness by Sarah Hall 2013-03-18T13:22:56Z The editor fights to revive her memories, a psychic drama that unfolds in exchanges even more rending than the novel’s scenes of totalitarian violence. ‘Read Receipts’ On: Two Dystopian Novels Predict the Surveillance State 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z And this is the major accomplishment of “Send for Me”: its vivid depiction of a family’s heartbreak, its rending and rebuilding. Inspired by Holocaust-Era Letters, a Novelist Examines Inherited Trauma 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z In that trio of songs, Spyres the Bel Canto star was most in his element: his tenor both riveting and rending, his high notes both tossed off and made to bloom with long crescendos. Review: A Singer’s Immense Sound Engulfs a Recital Room 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z There's no doubting that when asking a mega-super-huge fan what she'd like to see in "Never Say Never," the answer would involve a lot of crooning and rending of garments. The sexualization of Justin Bieber 2011-02-14T23:15:00Z Well, OK, they posted how excited they were on Twitter, which is the new millennium version of breast beating and garment rending. Friends reunion: let it go, it's never going to happen 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z In rending and flaying these particular volumes, Jones symbolically dismantles their ostensible authority. Works of defiant beauty by Samuel Levi Jones 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z It was not Mount St. Helens that blew, but a gash that appeared in the earth, rending the real world and allowing that monster-y dimension, the Upside Down, more entry. How to fix "Stranger Things" for its fifth and final season 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z Alternating between bites of the crispy salmon with sorrel, and the savory chicken with morels, my 6-year-old stared, rapt, out the plate glass windows at the blast furnace’s gas flares rending the nighttime sky. A Pittsburgh Area Restaurant That Trades Fussy for Fun 2018-07-07T04:00:00Z There is a subsequent gnashing of teeth or rending of garments along the corporate canyons of Hollywood. Film: Wine, Wafer, Popcorn: Hollywood Courts Christians 2010-08-20T19:34:00Z There is a heart rending recollection of Jackson's 11-year-old daughter weeping, "I will wake up in the morning and I won't be able to see my daddy." Jurors get first glimpse of doctor's personality 2011-10-10T21:54:37Z You hear a rending sound and think “Oh no.” Downton Abbey's Costume Designer on How to Dress Like an Edwardian 2012-02-19T21:00:25Z A few years later, she released her first album, “The Litanies of Satan,” a rending 30-minute maelstrom of weapons-grade solo voice and electronics. Diamanda Galás, Still Wild and Primal, Returns to the New York Stage 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z I had a fairly Western upbringing, but while performing my job I felt a rending dissonance. A Novelist’s Stint Impersonating the Ultra-Rich in China 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z Before we bookfolk start rending our garments too, first let’s check the literary record. Critic at Large David Kipen on El Segundo in literature 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z Sometimes, the prose of “The Dark Lady’s Mask” veers, if not purple, then lavender: “The verses cascaded through Aemilia, rending her spellbound.” Shakespeare strikes back at the woman who helped him write his plays 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z McIntosh made field recordings there a few months before it was devastated by a fire, and the resulting piece is a subtly rending reflection on the climate crisis, and what can be salvaged from ashes. In a Jam-Packed Weekend at Ojai, a Musical Family Gathers 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z Mr. Shamos brings to this, and all his scenes, a rending sense of Gabe’s awakening to the fragility of all relationships. Theater Review: ‘Dinner With Friends’ Is Revived by the Roundabout 2014-02-14T03:00:15Z Company members and guest stars appear in different guises, none more surprising than Dagmar Manzel in a rendingly sober turn from her riotous Cleopatra earlier last week. After 10 Years, Barrie Kosky Leaves His Opera House Dancing 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z She knits rendingly painful personal anecdotes into the essays in "Unspeakable Things: Sex, Lies and Revolution," including her struggles with anorexia and online harassment. Lena Dunham and Laurie Penny rewrite womanhood for the 21st century 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z A slowly building alarm creeps into the rending music, then the stage is cleared with a sonic blast — one so powerful it shakes the seats of the theater. Review: An ‘Orlando’ Opera Is a Milestone, but No More, in Vienna 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z No matter the format, “Walküre” is a rending portrait of love, family and regret; Sunday’s performance wasn’t any different. America’s Most Interesting Opera Destination? The Midwest 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z The death prompted a widespread gnashing of teeth and rending of garments on social media, where "Grey's Anatomy" became a trending topic around the globe. Shonda Rhimes speaks out on 'Grey's Anatomy' shocker 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z She holds the sum of these feelings in her anxious darting glances along with a rending sadness, making us understand why a girl like that would find comfort in Bush's best-known anthem. How "Stranger Things 4" transforms Max into a dream warrior worthy of Wes Craven 2022-05-30T04:00:00Z These are sensitive musicians, though, and they followed “Tannhäuser” with smaller, rending songs by Grieg and Sibelius, as well as Richard Strauss. The Met Opera’s Newest Star Returns, on the Small Screen 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z Some are funny, 'the Lakers nailed it', some are heart rending, 'I’m so happy to be alive and survived cancer', some moving, 'I love my wife and children'. A Thanksgiving Snapshot: Readers Share Their Holiday Stories 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z Ms. Moss’s goal is to convey, in visceral terms, the disorientation of lives resumed after rending, warping interruptions. | 'This Wide Night': Edie Falco and Alison Pill as Reunited Ex-Cons 2010-05-17T02:15:00Z At once requiem and reclamation, the play takes its blistering title from a celebrated Sorley sonnet, written in rending acknowledgment of the ranks of the dead among whom the poet would soon take his place. Review: ‘Comedy About a Bank Robbery’; ‘No Villain’; ‘It Is Easy to Be Dead’ 2016-07-02T04:00:00Z There was much rending of garments in far-right circles about Carlson's firing. Elon Musk's exploding rocket offers a superb symbol of MAGA's current fortunes 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z They're all rending their garments over "the rule of law" being destroyed because a district attorney is bringing a criminal case against a man he says committed a crime. Indicted Trump: Too irresistible for GOP 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z Holley is volcanically self-expressive in his visual art, whether rending tiny wires into human profiles or planning massive statues from uncut granite and gleaming metal. Lonnie Holley always manages to find the beauty in terror 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z To Polley, more heart rending was that it proved that such a conversation is possible to have, in a hayloft or anywhere else. Radical dialogue and open roads in ‘Women Talking’ 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z At the time, police also arrested and charged Clemmons’ sister, his aunt, a cousin and his half-brother with a variety of crimes, including rending medical aid to the wounded Clemmons. Retrial begins for accused getaway driver in Lakewood officer killings 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z The hand wringing and rending of garments by Donald Trump's minions has been a sight to behold. Biden's MAGA warning drowned out by GOP hissy fit 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z Then it’s back to roar, lunge, rending of metal, breaking of glass and — you guessed it — more panic, panic, panic. ‘Beast’ review: The humans (and plot) stand little chance in this jungle 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z At least, I think that horrid screaming, silent sobbing and rending of garments indicates confusion. Opinion | We must protect life from conception until the moment of birth! 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z However, all three teams closed the regular season with victories, rending the outcome of Charlotte’s game meaningless. Wizards end season with loss to play-in tournament-bound Hornets 2022-04-10T04:00:00Z However, all three teams closed the regular season with victories, rending the outcome of Charlotte’s win meaningless in the big picture. Hornets top Wizards 124-108, fail to improve play-in seeding 2022-04-10T04:00:00Z "It's really heart rending," said Mr Dowbenko, who has a Ukrainian father, and is a committee member at the Nottingham Ukrainian Cultural Centre. Ukraine: Hundreds join protests against Russian invasion 2022-03-06T05:00:00Z The debates about school are microcosms of the larger fights rending the country over masking, vaccine mandates and whether the social costs of distancing are greater than the disease. Americans will be cleaning up from the coronavirus for years, experts warn 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z But its deepest cut was the literal rending of families, the loss of millions and millions of irreplaceable parents, siblings, aunts, uncles, cousins. Perspective | The Holocaust destroyed Jewish families. Genealogy can help rebuild them. 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z It’s arranged all of the programs I’m running so it’s impossible to see two simultaneously, side-by-side, forcing me to repeatedly toggle back and forth while rending my garments and gnashing my teeth. Perspective | My computer ate a month’s worth of emails. Somehow, it’s my fault. 2021-04-04T04:00:00Z Sure, rending their garments over Mr. Potatohead is lots of fun, but this is what goes directly into the right-wing lizard brain. Coverage of the migrant surge at the border shows how easily the media can be trolled by Republicans 2021-03-22T04:00:00Z America was experiencing major growing pains in the early 19th century, with rapid expansion westward, Northern and Southern states battling over slavery and political factionalism rending the young nation. Crime and reverence: Keeping George Washington’s remains at Mount Vernon proved no easy feat 2021-02-21T05:00:00Z The board voted 3-2 last week to appeal any adverse ruling on the strip clubs but that decision didn’t cover restaurants, rending it moot. Judge says strip club ruling also protects restaurants 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z After these days of rending, of loss, of violence, of grief, of convulsant change, may we find a beautiful, grateful reimagining. Opinion | I Was in Love With a Tree That Swallowed the Sky 2020-06-27T04:00:00Z Compare that with attitudes at the time of King’s assassination, which occasioned the Chicago Tribune to editorialize against the perceived rending of the country’s social fabric. News Analysis: Racism, riots, police brutality. Is America living 1968 all over again? Yes, and no 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z The conflict stretched from April 1861 to April 1865, costing hundreds of thousands of lives and rending the nation into two separate worlds — a divide that lingers today. Lincoln’s forgotten legacy as America’s first ‘green president’ 2020-02-16T05:00:00Z Republicans have been whining for the past two months about "the process," rending their garments over the fact that the president wasn't allowed to have lawyers present to defend him during the Intelligence Committee hearings. Impeachment: We're drawing near the endgame — and, man, is it gonna get ugly 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z Forgive me for not rending my garments in horror over Democratic rhetoric. Democrats need to remember: 2020 won’t be decided by 2019's debate responses | Walter Shapiro 2019-08-04T04:00:00Z Felipe’s answer is “by deducting, tearing apart, rending bodies,” until reaching that mythical zero, a number with no remainder. Review: An authoritarian leader's shadow looms over a weary country in 'The Remainder' 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z I threw myself to the floor and began wailing, pulling at my hair and rending my garments. Perspective | A real bread-and-butter issue: What kind of sandwich are you? 2019-07-14T04:00:00Z Opponents argue that the compact would thwart the intent of the Constitution by rending the Electoral College irrelevant. Oregon House passes National Popular Vote, sends bill to Democratic governor 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z But the alternative is permanent impasse on an issue that is rending the national fabric. Opinion | How both Trump and Democrats can win on immigration 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z House Democrats responded by ramping up committee investigations, kicking off what is likely to be a long, rending intraparty debate over impeachment. As Democrats Agonize, G.O.P. Is at Peace With Doing Nothing on Mueller’s Findings 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z Her teeth rending flesh, the taste of it, the feeling of it between incisors and tongue and gums. Meet the scientists who are training AI to diagnose mental illness 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z Losing to the Zips and putting up Rutgers-esque stats usually is cause for rending of garments, but somehow the Wildcats clawed their way to a Big Ten title-game matchup with Ohio State. College football TV schedule for championship week 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z Instead of rending their hearts like grieving fathers, too many bishops have rendered their silence or their press releases like management professionals. The Catholic Bishops Who Failed Us All 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z Amid the wailing and rending of garments that filled the air after President Trump’s bizarre press conference with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki last Monday, one mysterious name lingered in the air. Bill Browder and Vladimir Putin: A tangled tale of two nations, two centuries and a lot of history 2018-07-21T04:00:00Z Desperately sad heart rending news to wake up to. Tributes to 'inspirational' Tessa Jowell 2018-05-13T04:00:00Z A good opinion editor, you see, prides herself on ideological balance, mixing and matching pundits who reliably leave the conservative right gnashing its teeth with those who routinely leave the progressive left rending its garments. Press digs its own grave if it gives equal space to conspiracy theorists 2018-03-04T05:00:00Z In the end, Pruitt’s directive seems crafted to incite US President Donald Trump’s political base, and it’s yet another example of researchers being dragged into the political and cultural wars rending the country. Grant recipients can still give objective advice 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z Pushed by the same political divisions that are rending the nation, both men have taken positions that stray from their records. Va. governor’s race gets a jump on Labor Day, stoked by statues and Trump 2017-09-02T04:00:00Z They’re up on the resistance bandwagon right now, rending their garments, shaking their fists, and praying that no one holds them responsible for the dead end into which they’ve steered us over the years. Don't let establishment opportunists ruin the resistance movement | Thomas Frank 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z Throughout this period the airwaves were flooded with ethics experts and constitutional scholars rending their garments over all these clear violations of ethical norms. Beneath the deepening chaos of the Trump administration, the Trump business is doing just fine 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z Populists fanning irrational fears risk rending Europe’s economic fabric, Mr. Pan said. For Europe’s Unity, 2017 Will Be a Year of Reckoning 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z Its a great community feeling and i remember once a very young sufi from Minneapolis sang a heart rending invocation that had us all in tears. Sufi Sect of Islam Draws ‘Spiritual Vagabonds’ in New York 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z On social media, the gnashing of teeth and rending of flesh threatened to reach apocalyptic levels. How Education Reform Lost Its Mojo 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z Even there, the outside world intruded occasionally, in the form of two ice cream trucks that plied the streets of the beach town, their jangly music rending the hot air. Warming up to a week at the beach 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z The rending of garments and gnashing of teeth of dyed-in-the-wool Republicans as the party of Reagan sinks inexorably into the party of Trump? Red alert, Democrats. Donald Trump might be poised to make a comeback. 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z But the hot-water extraction technique sometimes in use would probably remove the restorative properties of the mushroom, rending the medicine ineffective, warns Cotter. Surprising New Uses for Mushrooms, From Houses to Packaging It is the worst of times, as it seems much of the fabric that has held together the interests and individuals that have made such prosperity possible is rending at the seams. The Infectious Optimism of Ed Entrepreneurs 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z You never see defeated chess players dropping to their knees and rending their garments. Magnus Carlsen: the cool grandmaster who cries when he loses to himself 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z His speech was greeted with great kvelling and rending of garments by the TV pundits who proclaimed The Donald a reformed man. The Trump hype is out of control: Why he’s still no lock to win the GOP nomination 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z Eventually, Russia’s onslaught began rending alliances between moderate rebel groups, who were willing to entertain the notion of peace talks, and their more extremist counterparts, who were disinclined, uninvited, or both. What Putin Has Done for Assad 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z But consolidating districts and closing schools risks further rending the fabric of these already hard-hit communities. School Choice for Rural Students 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z They are rending garments and gnashing teeth over at Sports Illustrated, which on the eve of the season picked Baltimore to win the Super Bowl. N.F.L. Announcers Are Bad at Math, Too 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z Video game wizards harness the powers of the elements themselves to twist the fabric of reality, rending holes in time and space, pulling fire and lightning from the sky to hurl at their enemies. Remembering the lost art of the graphics card box 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z “The scene was heart rending, and many of those who witnessed it . . . were moved to tears,” the Star recounted. One of the last grim scenes of the Civil War was caught on camera 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z No rending and tearing of flesh, but the truest of evils, nothingness itself, to which all lesser evils were beholden, to be feared but never experienced. Jiffy : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z Why, when parsing a point, do its hosts sound like a hernia is rending their groin? William F. Buckley would have loathed Fox News: Inside the right-wing media’s intellectual downfall 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z Wolf toured the scene overnight and called it “truly awful, heart rending,” but also says police, fire and rescue personnel on site were doing a phenomenal job. Pennsylvania to fly flags at half-staff after Amtrak crash 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z “The agonizing shrieks and groans of the injured and dying were heart rending, and the stench of burning flesh was intolerable and beyond my power of description.” The sinking of the Sultana: A disaster lost in the lingering fog of the Civil War 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z The question is if the mythical rending of “American Sniper” fits its more complex basis of reality. Review: ‘American Sniper’ is quintessential Eastwood 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z And now I won’t be able to walk through a CVS without sighing loudly and rending my garments, and I might need to buy some toiletries in the next month or two. Waging a noble war against an early Christmas Softly spoken Mohamed says: "When I have a phone call from home I'm worried, maybe it's a funeral, or maybe somebody I know has passed away. "It is very heart rending. UK aid helping Ebola-affected areas 2014-10-18T04:00:00Z Which means that the decision, while a minor nick to Obamacare, provides little or no future guidance to the increasingly harsh clash of individual rights that is now rending the nation asunder. Persecution and the Art of Baking, or, How Civil Rights Became Corrupt 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z Now there’s all this dramatic and very public rending of clothing about whether they should keep their expensive Clippers season tickets. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Welcome to the Finger-Wagging Olympics 2014-04-28T18:47:14Z I don't know who thought of it, but we came up with the 'rending of the fabric of time and space'. Doctor Who: Sound of the Daleks 2013-11-23T04:51:37Z When it was announced that Hamill would be relinquishing his role, there was much gnashing of teeth and rending of garments from Joker fans. Troy Baker Gives Voice To The Joker 2013-10-14T16:57:00Z There was no audible gasp or rending of hair over seeing a product from Microsoft’s old rival onstage. A new Microsoft: Major reorganization puts focus on hardware, services 2013-07-11T14:00:00Z Yet even before the rebels fled from most of Qusayr on Wednesday under withering fire, the most striking destruction was intangible: the rending of the area’s social fabric. In Besieged Sunni Town of Qusayr, Sunnis Are Bitter 2013-06-05T18:28:46Z The president’s supporters took to rending their garments, and Romney worked lines into his stump speech contrasting a disappearing Obama campaign to his own surging. In battleground Ohio, Obama and Romney fight for blue-collar swing voters 2012-10-15T18:52:12Z For Sylvia the idea of Miss Lee’s departure and marriage was desolating; it was an abrupt rending of half the ties that bound her to Hornton House. The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett 2012-04-26T02:00:17.327Z About five minutes after, however, louder and more rending sounds were heard; and it was evident that cannon were now employed on both sides. The Huguenot: (Volumes I-III) A Tale of the French Protestants. 2012-04-25T02:00:59.637Z With a rending crash the crippled mast buckled up and disappeared over the side. With Beatty off Jutland A Romance of the Great Sea Fight 2012-04-21T02:00:25.260Z A mighty pain racked her, a rending pain that seemed to leave her with reluctance as if it had failed to hurt her enough. The Vanity Girl 2012-04-12T02:00:26.883Z Deliver me, O Lord, “lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces when there is none to deliver.” The Expositor's Bible: The First Book of Samuel 2012-04-08T02:00:20.427Z The American crew then wished to board, in turn, but Captain Biddle, seeing that his guns were rending the enemy in pieces, restrained their ardor, and recommenced firing. The Second War with England, Vol. 2 of 2 2012-04-05T02:00:38.213Z The tie, the strong tie of human affection--the rending of which is the great and agonising pang of death--had twined itself round his heart, and bound every feeling and every thought. The Huguenot: (Volumes I-III) A Tale of the French Protestants. 2012-04-25T02:00:59.637Z The snapping and rending of the brig’s timbers was heard over the fury of the storm; she was breaking up fast. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 2 2012-04-03T02:00:36.237Z He himself was evidently a prey to the most rending remorse. The Literary Sense 2012-04-02T02:00:28.147Z It is a symbol, says Samuel, of the rending of the kingdom of Israel from thee this day, to be given by God to a neighbour of thine that is better than thou. The Expositor's Bible: The First Book of Samuel 2012-04-08T02:00:20.427Z In an hour and a half the Newcastle got within gun-shot, and began to fire by divisions, rending the fog with flame, but leaving the Constitution unharmed. The Second War with England, Vol. 2 of 2 2012-04-05T02:00:38.213Z To America herself the rending seemed to many certain to be fatal. The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution 2012-04-02T02:00:25.387Z It could be done, it was done, but with what a rending of bleeding sinews only the sufferers knew! The Great House 2012-03-30T02:00:14.973Z The act of rending, or attempting to rend, heavy masses of rock, earth, etc., by the explosion of gunpowder, dynamite, etc.; also, the charge used for this purpose. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z While men listen to the earthquake and the wind rending the mountains, a still, small voice speaks the message of God to prepared hearts. The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians 2012-03-20T02:00:11.133Z A long stick was raised with a battered hat for a flag, a hundred human swarms rushed in all directions, rending the air with their yells, and pandemonium was loose. The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia 2012-03-18T02:00:21.430Z He tore the white sleeve wholly from his arm, and, rending it in twain, flung it on the floor and trampled on it. Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France 2012-03-15T02:00:24.837Z His hands had just been laid on the man's shoulders when there came a blinding flash, a detonating report, a rending and tearing of rocks, then a shower of ore and stone. The Iron Boys in the Mines or, Starting at the Bottom of the Shaft 2012-03-11T03:00:13.327Z There was a sound of rending and splitting from the deck; and through the smoke he saw the mainmast collapse with all its rigging. With Drake on the Spanish Main 2012-02-20T03:00:17.357Z All, at the word, listened with quickened pulses, and in the silence the harsh rending of wood came to the ear, a little dulled by distance. The Abbess Of Vlaye 2012-02-19T03:00:15.523Z It was hard, slow work, this slashing and rending, smashing and grinding. The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia 2012-03-18T02:00:21.430Z No earthly dross there, no foul, fierce, passions, rending and corrupting the soul. The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages 2012-02-17T03:00:30.347Z "Unbar the door or we will blow it down," some one shouted, in rough accents--then followed a thunderous battering of pikes, the crushing and rending of panels and then--silence. The Maid of Honour, Volume 2 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:34.990Z And the blunt "rending fangs" scored only superficial furrows in Rex's fawn-colored hide. Lad: A Dog 2012-02-08T03:00:19.720Z It was a shrill scream rending the night; such an one as had distended her own throat an instant before--but stifled in mid-utterance in a fashion horrible and suggestive. The Abbess Of Vlaye 2012-02-19T03:00:15.523Z Feels pains drawing, rending along posterior aspect of thighs and down to toes. New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers 2012-02-05T03:00:10Z He was right: the bear finding so formidable and noisy a foe behind him, slipped growling down the tree, rending deep furrows in it as she slipped. The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages 2012-02-17T03:00:30.347Z At last there was a sharp rending and a little murmur of applause as the big stump tilted and fell over on its side. Thrice Armed 2012-02-03T03:00:24.970Z Rent, rent, n. an opening made by rending: fissure: break: tear: a schism, as a rent in a church. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) 2012-01-30T03:00:13.887Z The third day of the festival was "the day of blood," i.e. of the mutilation and death of Atys, who was bewailed with despairing grief, amid rending of the hair and beating of the breast. The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) 2012-01-28T03:00:28.213Z It was an impressive sight, and the sound of rending and smashing was more impressive still; but when the trunk had gone Hetty found her attention fixed upon the pool. Delilah of the Snows 2012-01-23T03:00:09.087Z Martin kept her teeth off his face with great difficulty, and gripped her throat fiercely, and she kept rending his shoulder. The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages 2012-02-17T03:00:30.347Z Nor had I even quite recovered the bodily equilibrium disturbed by my first encounter with the rending powers of life. A Woman of Genius 2012-01-18T03:00:09.517Z What blight and ruin met his anguished eyes whose lips may tell—what brilliant, broken plans, what baffled, high ambitions, what sundering of strong, warm, manhood's friendships, what bitter rending of sweet household ties! Recitations for the Social Circle 2012-01-17T03:00:22.643Z The Jews expressed their grief, for the death of their near friends, by weeping, and crying aloud, beating their breasts, rending their clothes, tearing their flesh, pulling their hair, and starving themselves. Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) 2012-01-17T03:00:17.977Z Even more vehement in their grief are the angels, who rending their garments fly away with arms stretched out as if unable to bear the sight of so much pain. The Story of Assisi 2012-01-14T03:00:18.710Z The departure of upwards of a thousand young men, many of them wealthy and well-connected, meant a serious blow to trade and a rending of innumerable social ties. Lola Montez An Adventuress of the 'Forties 2012-01-08T03:00:19.240Z To Olivia's first encounter with the rending powers of Life, there went any amount of affectionate consideration and much old wives' lore of an extraordinary character. A Woman of Genius 2012-01-18T03:00:09.517Z Amid rending rocks and opening tombs the Centurion is saying, "Truly this was the Son of God." The Great Painters' Gospel Pictures Representing Scenes and Incidents in the Life of Our Lord Jesus Christ 2012-01-07T03:00:14.777Z Then they dispersed through the towns and villages, singing 'God save the queen,' and rending the air with their shouts,—'Freedom's come!' The Freedmen's Book 2012-01-05T03:00:39.763Z Was there wailing, gnashing of teeth, rending of garments? North Koreans' Tears, Sadness Upon Kim Jong Il's Death 2011-12-28T09:10:00Z Their angry messages to each other vibrated along the wires of their prison-house, rending the Dragon with intestinal war. The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies 2011-12-28T03:00:34.587Z Was there wailing, gnashing of teeth, the rending of garments? The Great North Korean Crying Game 2011-12-27T19:25:00Z In the distance the livid temple marks the place of the rending veil. The Great Painters' Gospel Pictures Representing Scenes and Incidents in the Life of Our Lord Jesus Christ 2012-01-07T03:00:14.777Z Icebergs of all dimensions came bearing down from the Polar seas like vast squadrons, and the roar of their rending came over the waters like the booming of the heavy broadsides of contending navies. Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. IV, No. 19, Dec 1851 2011-12-25T03:00:11.297Z The earthquake and rending of the veil of the temple at the crucifixion. The Two Tests: The Supernatural Claims of Christianity Tried by Two of its Own Rules 2011-12-24T03:08:06.143Z The Protestant Reformation, an attempt to purify Christianity from within, succeeded in rending the church asunder, but failed to redeem it from the worst of its inherent evils. Exempting the Churches An Argument for the Abolition of This Unjust and Unconstitutional Practice 2011-12-24T03:08:02.973Z He mourned her as a sweetheart, a betrothed, a wife; mourned her with an intolerable aching and rending and longing, and with an utter remorse because of his last words to her. What Will People Say? A novel 2011-12-17T03:00:18.490Z There was a crash of rending boughs and tearing branches. The Wolves of God And Other Fey Stories 2011-12-17T03:00:15.447Z The noise was of a tearing, rending character, and resembled platoon or volley firing as near as anything I know of. Wild Life in the Land of the Giants A Tale of Two Brothers 2011-12-12T03:00:34.923Z The rending of the veil of the temple, the opening of the graves, and the appearance of the risen saints would all have been known to him also, if they had occurred. The Two Tests: The Supernatural Claims of Christianity Tried by Two of its Own Rules 2011-12-24T03:08:06.143Z A moment later a steel monster crashed through the panelling, rending the cushions and splintering the wood. The Outcaste 2011-12-12T03:00:25.380Z Not always: there were times when the floes around the ship began to move slowly up and down, telling of a swell beneath them; then the rending, shrieking, and groaning noises were indescribable. Wild Adventures in Wild Places 2011-12-12T03:00:22.477Z It had been rending and tearing the smaller creature, and, at a glance Frank saw that it was a fox. Bart Keene's Hunting Days or, The Darewell Chums in a Winter Camp 2011-12-11T03:00:12.153Z Those that remained upon the plateau were blacking each other’s eyes, breaking each other’s teeth, tearing out each other’s hair, rending each other’s doublet and breeches. The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume I (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere 2011-12-10T03:00:17.800Z It was not from the huge rollers the launch was skirting so smartly that this tearing, rending roar came, but from an enormous black rock almost dead ahead. Down the Columbia 2011-12-10T03:00:16.583Z Harvey’s hands now covered his face, his form was bent forward, but the heaving of his chest told of the grief that was rending him. Kenneth McAlpine A Tale of Mountain, Moorland and Sea 2011-12-05T03:00:48.967Z As it is, unless I am mistaken, some of the rending will be on our side. Amusement Only 2011-12-04T03:00:06.637Z All of this might have Democratic Party leaders — Representative Joseph Crowley is the party boss in Queens — wailing and rending palm cards. Gotham: In Queens, Political Center Is in Surrogate?s Court 2011-11-29T02:16:35Z He had looked for a spectacular result, but there was only a dull, heavy thud, a sound of rending and splitting, and a wisp of vapor out of which a little soil flew up. The Boy Ranchers of Puget Sound 2011-11-24T03:00:42.877Z It was alive with fiercely-beating wings and jerking feathered necks and squirming feathered bodies, and cold hard little glassy eyes, and cruel rending beaks, and shrill angry cries. Maid of the Mist 2011-11-21T03:00:11.937Z But while the action involves the rending and rotting of human flesh, the sentences are for savoring. Hungry Zombies From Human Resources Snack on New Yorkers: Books 2011-11-16T08:19:29Z They did so, and, by the time they emerged again, the hubbub was deafening; the sound of rending and tearing could only be described as awful. The Beautiful White Devil 2011-11-11T03:00:24.760Z No periods of searching care have imprinted their lines upon his face; no rending sorrow has dimmed the sweetness of its expression. The Whirligig of Time 2011-11-04T02:00:23.063Z "Bread and the Newspaper," for instance, recalls vividly those sad, terribly earnest days when the civil war was rending not only our land but our hearts. Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes 2011-11-01T02:00:25.563Z The leafy weight seems rending The trees so thickly clad: Now be assured, dear mother mine, I'll take the worthy lad. Studies in Medi?val Life and Literature 2011-10-29T02:00:13.050Z Amidst the rending of wood, as the enormous pressure of confined air burst the decks asunder, and the crash of the funnel as the guys carried away, she slid stern foremost beneath the waves. The Wireless Officer 2011-10-24T02:00:17.560Z Four lions rending their prey are at its base. Cathedral Cities of Italy 2011-10-12T02:00:42.597Z Lincoln knew that it involved the painful rending of party allegiance. Lincoln, the Politician 2011-10-11T02:01:06.270Z With a horrible rending of the shattered timbers, the enormous mass pitched fairly on a jagged rock; the next instant the object of so many months' tedious toil lay on its broadside, hopelessly damaged. The Nameless Island A Story of some Modern Robinson Crusoes 2011-10-08T02:00:20.880Z His death on Wednesday at age 56 was met with the journalistic equivalent of a public rending of garments. Steve Jobs and the media: For the most part, it was a love affair 2011-10-07T01:22:53Z But I attribute them all to your sense of the anguish that is rending all hearts, and to the peril that is threatening our land. Victor Hugo: His Life and Works 2011-10-07T02:00:23.887Z It is possible to enter a jungle and become acutely aware of poison fang and rending claw—much as a pacifist considers the high adventure of righteous war. Jungle Peace 2011-10-06T02:00:42.363Z So long as the Margrave remained in Paris, the deceived sultana, by a great effort of will, succeeded "in concealing beneath a countenance always calm, and sometimes laughing, the rending tortures of mind and body." Queens of the French Stage 2011-10-06T02:00:38.820Z Napoleon is depicted as a savage tiger, rending four "Royal Greyhounds," quite at his mercy. The History of the Nineteenth Century in Caricature 2011-10-04T02:00:18.533Z And when these were over, and the globe was cooling down rapidly, so that mountain ranges were formed by the wrinkling and rending of the surface, was there then any life on the moon? Through Magic Glasses and Other Lectures A Sequel to The Fairyland of Science 2011-10-03T02:00:33.003Z The spectators below saw the Thebans scatter before them, tossing their arms above their heads and rending their garments. The Golden Hope A Story of the Time of King Alexander the Great 2011-10-02T02:00:13.920Z It has been sweeping through me and rending me cruelly, but he did not wish it, or he would have sent for me. In a Mysterious Way 2011-09-25T02:00:17.377Z I heard a loud rending of wood and tearing of fabric. Test Pilot 2011-09-21T02:00:37.513Z Yet what are we but political antagonists, who can honour one another in private, whilst rending one another to pieces on the arena of public life? The Tangled Skein 2011-09-21T02:00:29.687Z Suddenly a shell struck the Ramillies forward in front of the barbette, and burst like the rending of a thundercloud. The Great War in England in 1897 2011-09-20T02:00:17.083Z The phalanx dashed upon them with a rending shock. The Golden Hope A Story of the Time of King Alexander the Great 2011-10-02T02:00:13.920Z And now, with a long, rending slide from bass to treble, it tore itself loose, the wind caught it and whirled it up high over their heads as they plunged along. Rough-Hewn 2011-09-20T02:00:15.147Z In his infamous hands citizens place the integrity and safety of the country,—in those very hands with which he was rending it and fastening it in Swedish fetters. Pan Michael An Historical Novel of Poland, the Ukraine, and Turkey. 2011-09-10T02:00:24.983Z The youthful sergeant is sitting beside the cot within the screen, but his head is bowed down with grief, and a sorrow such as men feel but once in a life-time is rending his heart. O'er Many Lands, on Many Seas 2011-09-08T02:00:19.987Z How was it that you did not sell your remaining strength as dearly as possible?—that you did not rush like tigers upon your guards, and perish whilst rending them with your teeth and nails? Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XX 2011-08-27T02:00:23.817Z It hung balanced for an instant and then plunged from the ledge, bounding down the steep hillside with long leaps, rending everything in its path. The Golden Hope A Story of the Time of King Alexander the Great 2011-10-02T02:00:13.920Z I know not how it is with you, but mental disquiet is rending me. The Deluge, Vol. I. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. 2011-08-26T02:00:24.433Z There was a cracking, rending sound, the ice split in all directions like a flawed mirror, and with one piercing terrified shriek Violet disappeared into a pool of water. The Girls of St. Cyprian's A Tale of School Life 2011-08-24T02:00:19.813Z One might assume that time and past anguish would have provided a natural immunization to further emotional rending. Through these Eyes The courageous struggle to find meaning in a life stressed with cancer 2011-08-14T02:00:18.947Z At a time when the tables seemed turned, when the wolves of the press were desirous of rending me, I came back to my country—alone. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z All is dull, cold and dreary before me, until I also can escape to the region where there is no bereavement, no blasting root and branch, no rending of the heart-strings. Harriet Martineau 2011-08-05T02:00:51.493Z Again the rending siren shriek divided the night. A Tatter of Scarlet Adventurous Episodes of the Commune in the Midi 1871 2011-08-04T02:00:19.957Z Horsemen dashed across the plain, with their colbacs on the point of their swords, and rending the air with their shouts. The Blockade of Phalsburg An Episode of the End of the Empire 2011-07-27T02:00:39.197Z Maxwell spoke thickly, but there was a wry smile on his lips as he watched the big dark-skinned alien, who, rending his cotton robe, bound a pad of wet leaves upon the injured side. The League of the Leopard 2011-07-23T02:00:12.490Z The custom of rending the living victims of his cult was carried so far that, when Pentheus disturbed his mysteries, the king was torn piecemeal by the women of his own family.*** Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z There was a sound of rending; a groaning crash; the Fram shivered till the breathless watchers thought they saw her spars tremble. The Romance of Polar Exploration Interesting Descriptions of Arctic and Antarctic Adventure from the Earliest Time to the Voyage of the ?Discovery? 2011-07-22T02:00:16.487Z Yea, truly, by rending his soul from his body! The Book of the Duke of True Lovers 2011-07-18T02:00:24.030Z There was a horrible rending crash as the stout keel snapped asunder, while a second wave swept over it, sweeping out the struggling occupants, and bearing them onward. Peggy Owen Patriot A Story for Girls 2011-07-17T02:00:32.837Z The climax seemed to have been reached, but 'a seven-times heated hell' of the enemy's onslaught fell upon them, rending brother from brother. The Best Psychic Stories 2011-07-13T02:00:21.943Z There was a rending crash, a shower of sparks, and she was free. The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life 2011-07-09T02:00:13.057Z A moment later there was a muffled roar, a vast column of water was thrown up, followed by a rending and grinding noise. The Golden Rock 2011-07-05T02:00:22.137Z She felt that nature's rending soul had tried their appealed case to enjoin his human need. The Higher Court 2011-06-27T02:01:00.213Z In Two-Bits' ears an abrupt crunching as he was knocked forward and down and a dull, rending pain spread across his shoulders. The Last Straw 2011-06-27T02:00:58.100Z There was a fearful rending and smashing of timber. The Trail of the Axe A Story of Red Sand Valley 2011-06-27T02:00:56.823Z Then a rending glare of white light revealed us all again, standing as if posing for our portraits. The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life 2011-07-09T02:00:13.057Z There was the wildest consternation on board the sloop, and the rending noise continued; but though she lay helplessly on the water she showed no signs of sinking. The Golden Rock 2011-07-05T02:00:22.137Z While it was still hovering above, Tom manœuvring for a landing, there came the muffled sound of shots and the rending of wood. King of the Air Or, To Morocco on an Aeroplane 2011-06-17T02:00:22.043Z There was a rending of tough timber as the bolt ripped down a cedar, a snorting of horses. The Last Straw 2011-06-27T02:00:58.100Z Indeed, of the death even of one of us, I have often thought as bringing us a step nearer, rending one veil between us. Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family 2011-06-17T02:00:18.293Z Suddenly, in the height of the chorus, there was a rending crash, and the entire fabric collapsed in one chaotic heap of disjointed timbers and shrieking humanity into the placid waters beneath. The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life 2011-07-09T02:00:13.057Z The steamer’s siren sent forth a rending cry from its brazen throat. The Golden Rock 2011-07-05T02:00:22.137Z There were three or four reports almost simultaneously, and above the whirr of the screws Tom thought he heard a sound of rending, as if one of the planes had been struck by a bullet. King of the Air Or, To Morocco on an Aeroplane 2011-06-17T02:00:22.043Z A pair of sharp horns caught the end of the skirt, rending it nearly to the waist. The Meadow-Brook Girls Across Country The Young Pathfinders on a Summer Hike 2011-06-13T02:00:31.687Z And giving out a shout most heaven rending, Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z The devil, after casting me repeatedly into the water and the fire, and rending me sorely, had departed. In Both Worlds 2011-06-08T02:00:17.360Z The rending crackle of the hard heavy wood was his answer. The Secret of Lonesome Cove 2011-06-07T02:00:12.563Z With the fury of a devil he leaps upon the boy when he emerges from the crypt with Durdles, and hears a sharp whistle rending the silence. The Problem of 'Edwin Drood' A Study in the Methods of Dickens 2011-06-05T02:00:15.443Z Both of these schools, though they differ in degree of guilt, are chargeable with the sin of ‘rending the seamless garment of thought.’ The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z How and with what rending of the heart Keats took his own farewell from the home of his joy and torment at Hampstead—of this we hear, and may be thankful to hear, nothing. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z Then he put a foot to the window-ledge, drew himself up and went through, amid the noise of rending glass and wood. The Shooting of Dan McGrew, A Novel Based on the Famous Poem of Robert Service 2011-05-28T02:00:24.557Z From the Marquis' hand the blade flew; struck the pavement; at the same time, a rending and tearing of wood came from the door. The Lady of the Mount 2011-05-24T02:00:15.640Z Shipboard allows so many opportunities of meeting; and, strange as it may appear, a broken heart is quickest mended when subjected to a second rending. A Crime of the Under-seas 2011-05-17T02:00:16.540Z "Give it me—give it me!" he cried, rending it from the minister's shoulders. Silent Struggles 2011-05-05T02:00:16.850Z The subject was forbidden at school where the teachers never referred to the colossal struggle that was rending Europe and the children of varied ancestries played together harmoniously in the school yard. Ethel Morton and the Christmas Ship 2011-05-03T02:00:15.220Z High explosives, with their quick shattering and rending effect, are little more effective than gunpowder in actually moving large quantities of earth. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" 2011-04-22T02:00:08.637Z It caught like fire the main, Where rending planks were heard, and broadsides pealed, That shook were all the seas, Which feared, and thought on Nelson. Victorian Ode For Jubilee Day, 1897 2011-04-22T02:00:08.360Z The change you will receive after purchasing your materials will come gently as the dues from heaven—not rending nor wrecking anything. The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers, Series 1 2011-04-21T02:00:47.647Z Then there was a great flame of fire and a rending noise, and the Stone burst and split in sunder. Japanese Fairy Tales 2011-04-15T02:00:14.617Z Led by Verbeck and Riley, with Muggs at their heels, the police waded through snowdrifts, crashed through wet underbrush, rending the black night with the light of their torches. The Black Star A Detective Story 2011-04-14T02:01:01.883Z The sloop lay in smooth water close to the beach, but when night fell the surf was roaring on the sands and they could hear the crash of rending ice. The Secret of the Reef 2011-04-12T02:00:26.980Z On rolls the car, and the crowd closes round it, rending the old walls with shattering hurrahs. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z The balls fell on every side of the boat, and at length one struck her on the stem, rending her open from end to end, and scattering her shivered planks over the surfy sea. The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. II (of II) 2011-04-04T02:00:06.657Z The clouds lay low on the mountain-sides, thickening the gloom that spread around, while yellow currents of water crossed and re-crossed on every side, rending the earth, and laying bare the roots of tall trees. Luttrell Of Arran Complete 2011-04-01T02:00:31.290Z That night he sat smoking his pipe near the entrance, when a mortar shell, exploding near, sent a fragment into the old man’s side, rending it open, and tearing away his hip. My Cave Life in Vicksburg With Letters of Trial and Travel 2011-03-30T02:00:13.113Z Then follows a confused struggle for the scalp, in which it is torn to pieces, all who can appropriating shred or tress, but to spit upon it in vindictive scorn, while still further rending it! The Lost Mountain A Tale of Sonora 2011-03-23T02:00:19.250Z The black was ready by my side, rending his shirt into ribbons. Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land 2011-03-22T02:00:20.123Z And, having described all these things, then come the shaking, spoken of by Ezekiel, and the rending of the Mount of Olives, spoken of by Zachariah. A Voice of Warning An introduction to the faith and doctrine of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 2011-03-13T03:00:21.363Z We could see their cannon-balls plumping into the water, striking the floes of driving ice, or even rending the frail pontoons which our engineers had moored with such difficulty. The Great White Army 2011-03-12T03:00:25.450Z There was a rending of timber; the cabin was pushed before the ice; and then it seemed to melt away, swallowed up by the flood. The Great Gold Rush A Tale of the Klondike 2011-03-06T03:00:22.017Z It seemed like rending her very heart-strings to take it off. Sharing Her Crime 2011-03-04T03:00:54.907Z I was never intended to go through such trials as these; and they 're now rending a heart that was only made for tenderness and affection. The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. II 2011-03-03T03:00:54.950Z As he spoke there was a rending sound at his feet. Polaris of the Snows 2011-03-02T03:00:28.900Z There was a crackling of wood, a rending of glass, and upon that the oaths and curses of the assassins below. The Great White Army 2011-03-12T03:00:25.450Z In a moment she was a shaggy mass of biting ants, rending and tearing at her chitinous armour. The Mad Planet 2011-03-02T03:00:25.117Z They are girdled about the reins with a curse for the girdle thereon: For the noise of the rending of chains the face of their colour is gone. Poems & Ballads (First Series) 2011-02-28T03:00:30.587Z Your fine boy would never dream of rending your soul as Angèle has rent mine to-day—all because I wished her to read an instructive book instead of a French novel.” The Revellers 2011-02-26T03:00:50.133Z Mother, sisters, and wives, now flocked around the lifeless clay, rending the air with their piercing shrieks.—“Alas! the brave have fallen, the spirit of the bold has fled.” The Highlands of Ethiopia 2011-02-25T03:01:07.193Z Yet it transpired that Hudson's flesh was not to know those rending fangs a second time. The Strength of the Pines 2011-02-25T03:01:03.770Z This weird moaning, as the four-inch shell flew by, was somewhat disconcerting as far as Billy was concerned, while to heighten the effect a rending crash accompanied the passing of the projectile. Billy Barcroft, R.N.A.S. A story of the Great War 2011-02-24T03:01:02.917Z Then there was a rending, shattering crash, followed by another and still another. The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 2 (of 10) From the Battle of Mons to the Fall of Antwerp. 2011-02-19T03:01:10.063Z Long before the heart is reached, a loud cracking and rending is heard. Two Years in Oregon 2011-02-16T03:00:33.293Z Neither study found a significant relationship between personality and blood type, rending the theory "obsolete" and concluding that no basis exists to assume that personality is anything more than randomly associated with blood type. You are what you bleed: In Japan and other East Asian countries, some believe blood type dictates personality 2011-02-15T16:15:03.967Z But the Turners were men, and they worked with knife blade and bullet, not rending fang and claw. The Strength of the Pines 2011-02-25T03:01:03.770Z If the gun failed to do its work in time, and if the Hun pilot's nerves did not desert him, the result would be a rending crash in mid-air as the two swift-moving craft collided. Billy Barcroft, R.N.A.S. A story of the Great War 2011-02-24T03:01:02.917Z Then they empty themselves in a terrific deluge of water and hail, accompanied by thunderclaps so reverberant that they seem to arise from the rending of the hills themselves. The Westerners 2011-02-14T03:00:39.347Z At Tanabata we march through the streets with green bamboo trees, rending the air with certain shouts and beating the instruments, and upon meeting the boys of other streets have a scuffle. A Japanese Boy 2011-02-14T03:00:37.363Z Weakened and sickened in body by the anguish of mind which was rending him, he dared not turn his head toward the table where the temptation lay within such easy reach of his shaking hand. Oldfield A Kentucky Tale of the Last Century 2011-02-13T03:00:19.953Z Sigismund, whose aid the king secured in return for help in putting an end to the scandalous “great schism” which had been rending the Western Church for so many years. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History 2011-02-12T03:00:32.473Z With a rending crash the vessel, whatever she might be, ran bows on to the jagged rocks. Billy Barcroft, R.N.A.S. A story of the Great War 2011-02-24T03:01:02.917Z The spirit of discontent held Esm� Carteret with his cruel claws, rending her, hurting her mentally. The Oyster 2011-02-10T03:00:49.300Z It has as a necessary presupposition the rending of all society into two classes: the owners of the means of production, and the personal factors in production. Socialism and the Social Movement in the 19th Century 2011-02-09T03:00:48.103Z Where the Wharfe ever lovely, capricious, romantic, Or murmuring glides or impetuously frantic, Now spreads o'er the plain in majestic repose, Now rending the rocks as a cataract flows? A Season at Harrogate 2011-02-08T03:00:10.763Z Straining his ears he fancied he could hear the rustle of creeping men, any moment he expected a rending blow on his own tender body. The Secret Battle 2011-02-06T03:00:59.983Z Thy darting flames Of vengeance loose, and shake the lofty firmament With rending storms! Studies in the Poetry of Italy, I. Roman 2011-02-06T03:00:58.870Z When Cymoent heard the melancholy news, she flung away her flowers, and rending her hair, threw herself speechless on the ground. Tales from Spenser; Chosen from the Faerie Queene 2011-02-06T03:00:52.580Z Then arose a great cry from all the town and the mountain, and a rending of garments and a weeping in sackcloth. Ghetto Tragedies 2011-01-27T03:00:46.507Z There was a fearsome crash of rending plates and torn ribs, the great vessel reeled over, struck again and bumped clear of the outer reef. His Unknown Wife 2011-01-27T03:00:38.763Z Sally, sinking to her knees in her terror, heard the rending sound of flimsy timber giving way, then the more awful noise of a big body sliding rapidly down the roof. Girl Alone 2011-01-27T03:00:36.117Z So saying, the princess left the room, firmly convinced that she had done her duty and averted an imminent danger by thus boldly rending asunder the veil which had covered Wanda's heart. Vineta The Phantom City 2011-01-21T03:00:10.377Z A big yellow cub was crouching on it; he instantly slid into the shelter of the bushes, and the irrepressible Jeremiah, uttering a rending shriek, plunged into the thicket after him. Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. 2011-01-16T03:00:24.113Z They all understood that Don Luis had waited until they were together before rending the veil of the mystery before their eyes. The Secret of Sarek 2011-01-14T03:00:49.903Z It was the rending in two of the Irish tradition, the degrading of the primacy of Armagh, the admission of a foreign power, and the triumph of the English over the Gaelic church. Irish Nationality 2011-01-11T03:00:30.560Z Pockets of gas exploded in the heights, rending the periphery, as the veil of the temple was rent. She Buildeth Her House 2011-01-04T03:01:05.167Z For the sake of rending a tie so hated he had consented for Wanda to accompany him into an exile that must be almost certain death. Vineta The Phantom City 2011-01-21T03:00:10.377Z And if, in a ruthless rending aside of the tinselled illusions which enthrall the stage-struck girl, I have rendered a service, my own suffering will not have been in vain. My Actor-Husband A true story of American stage life 2011-01-03T03:01:07.697Z Suddenly a dog barked and another answered, rending the muffled silence into long, ragged tatters: the dogs’ angry throats sounded hoarse, panting, harshly hostile; then they, too, suddenly fell silent. The Hidden Force A Story of Modern Java 2010-12-24T03:00:34.823Z Miss Uniacke gave an unexpected movement, followed by an ominous rending sound. The Man with the Double Heart 2010-12-21T22:55:56.757Z There were other vivid animals, strong and agile, in his quiver of physical passions, but he discovered that these could not become red and rending without alcohol. She Buildeth Her House 2011-01-04T03:01:05.167Z The university is on high alert about the mental health of its students after the apparent suicides of three of them in less than a month in the deep gorges rending the campus. After 3 Suspected Suicides, a Shaken Cornell Reaches Out 2010-03-17T01:26:00Z It appeared to me that the danger of such a proceeding lay in the tearing down of barriers which could never again be replaced—a rending aside of all illusion between us. My Actor-Husband A true story of American stage life 2011-01-03T03:01:07.697Z At length it came, overturning houses, shaking down a fragment of the castle, rending wider the breach in the perpendicular side of the rock, and throwing off the fragments with the force of a volcano. History of The Reign of Philip The Second King of Spain Volume The Third and Biographical & Critical Miscellanies There was a sound of rending wood-work, and the structure was torn from its hinges. The Great Mogul Paula could understand this—the wild beast of physical desire rending itself at the last—but not the conception of hopelessness—Bellingham cut off from immortality. She Buildeth Her House 2011-01-04T03:01:05.167Z The death of Osiris at the hands of Typhon, the rending of the divine form, and the dispersion of the lacerated remains, were passionately lamented in sympathy with the mourning Isis. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius He is an interesting figure in Virginia history—a sturdy watch-dog—tearing and rending with a cruelty equal to his zeal every offender against the common-weal. Curious Punishments of Bygone Days Then a series of small tearing, rushing, rending sounds ended in a mighty crash. Dick's Desertion A Boy's Adventures in Canadian Forests Hark, from all lands, from the isles of the ocean, Praise to Jehovah ascending on high; Fallen the engines of war and commotion, Shouts of salvation are rending the sky. The Story of Our Hymns Nay, some did turn aside and weep, rending their hair, as though all hope were lost. Comic Tragedies Written by 'Jo' and 'Meg' and Acted by The 'Little Women' Rhoda, flung prostrate, wept bitterly, rending her heart for the getting of very prayer for that unknown woman, her bane. The Unknown Sea A rending, moments repeated incessantly, torture indescribable, pain embedded in the body, battle, cruel cries.... Woman The tidings of these heart rending occurrences did not reach him until he was exchanged and arrived at Philadelphia. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution When death these mortal eyes shall seal, And still this throbbing heart, The rending veil shall Thee reveal, All glorious as Thou art. The Story of Our Hymns But how the world has fared since that "seamless robe" has suffered rending by the talons of ambition, we may read in books; would that we might not see it with our eyes. Dante. An essay. To which is added a translation of De Monarchia. She passed twelve hours in tears and mourning, rending her sun-tinted hair, and bruising her breast, of the whiteness of the lily; afterwards she stood up, resolute, animated by a vivid sentiment of despair. Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry He saw the beast creeping forward in the weird dancing light of the fallen lantern, and he only knew that his flesh, not hers, must resist its rending talons. The Voice of the Pack Under these heart rending circumstances Washington directed Gen. Greene to take command of the Southern army. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution Thou art the Life; the rending tomb Proclaims Thy conquering arm; And those who put their trust in Thee Nor death nor hell shall harm. The Story of Our Hymns Now that he had wept away that rending sense of powerlessness to aid her, he could examine the future more calmly. Sinister Street, vol. 2 It demanded the annihilation of free individuality, a rending from all the ties of the world, fanatical devotion, and an unconditional subjection of the individual to a great community. Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. II. Thus he drove onward until he reached the shades of the forest, and he rode through the forest, rending the branches with his body, until his horse was all a lather of sweat. The Story of Sir Launcelot and His Companions If it is painful, dearest, this storm, this rending and tearing within--it will pass away, I hope, without your perceiving it. The Children of the World That tremor shook him for a moment as though the soul were forcibly rending its way from the body. Norine's Revenge; Sir Noel's Heir So the moment of his passion had come upon her like a lightning flash, rending the heavens, levelling her house of life to the grounds, leaving her naked and terror-struck. Cinderella Jane During the whole of November and December, either the rains were descending with violence, or the furious "northers" which ravage this coast were breaking the frail tent-poles or rending the rotten canvas. History of the War Between Mexico and the United States, with a Preliminary View of its Origin, Volume 1 And the eyes of the wild boar gleamed like to two coals of fire, and it roared like to a devil as it fled, rending, through the forest. The Story of Sir Launcelot and His Companions BLASTING, the process of rending or breaking apart a solid body, such as rock, by exploding within it or in contact with it some explosive substance. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" Trakor knew that only seconds remained for him in this life, that within fleeting moments he must go down to a horrible death beneath rending fangs. The Return of Tharn There came a stunning crash mingled with rending and tearing sounds and frightened cries, and then the monstrous shape was gone. The Guns of Europe "It is freshening, by Jove!" said he, as a squall struck the vessel, and laid her almost on her beam ends, while every plank shivered as though she were rending in pieces. Roland Cashel Volume I (of II) Anon the baying of the hounds approached him very near indeed, and presently there came a great cracking and rending of the bushes and the small trees. The Story of Sir Launcelot and His Companions Gunpowder is exploded by deflagration, by means of a fuze, and exerts a comparatively slow and rending force. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" Would that terrible engine of destruction spring instantly upon them, rending and tearing before they could give effective battle? The Return of Tharn But it is the noise of the explosion, the rending of metal, and the bang of flying fragments and falling gear that makes a heavy shelling so staggering, to mind if not to body. Sea-Hounds All of the surplus heat above that temperature is consumed in rending the liquid water into moisture globules that float away into the air, each one of them charged with a store of potential energy. Nature's Miracles, Volume 1 Familiar Talks on Science—World-Building and Life. Earth, Air and Water. But already their weight was splitting the decayed old willow: there was an ominous crack, a sudden rending, a piteous cry, and, still clutching the severed branch, they went whirling down the river. A Pair of Schoolgirls A Story of School Days The high explosives, on the other hand, are exploded by detonation, through the agency of a fuze and fulminating cap, exerting a quick, shattering, rather than a rending force. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" Anna went over, rending gown and apron on the roughnesses of rails and haste. The Only Woman in the Town And Other Tales of the American Revolution Came a scratching and a fighting and a furious sound of rending material as the man wriggled to be free of those three detaining hands that held him. The Riddle of the Spinning Wheel As she watched beside her son, she felt a more rending anguish than when she had given him birth, for now her soul was in travail of him. Shadows of Flames A Novel Deluges are often caused in the Andes by the liquefaction of great masses of snow, and sometimes by the rending open, during earthquakes, of subterranean cavities filled with water. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology They ended in a drunken carousal, their maniac yells rending the midnight air. An Artilleryman's Diary There is no resemblance in the sensation of pain produced by great heat to the rending of the fibres of our body that causes it. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" A moment later, without further warning, came another and more serious shock, a series of bumps on the ship's bottom, accompanied by a harsh, rending sound. By Right of Conquest A Novel The anguish of remorse and love were rending her, but outwardly she was as calm as the two professionals who stood and pitied her. Shadows of Flames A Novel It was the domestic pathetic that he delineated with such power: it was in the distresses of home life, the rending asunder of home affections, that he was so great a master. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 The rending snap of the wood came beneath her feet. The Indian Drum The intrenchments now broke out into flame just as there came a terrific roar, a bursting rending sound, and the bridge disappeared. Harper's Round Table, July 2, 1895 Above the shriek of the storm and roar of the waters rose his rending cry. To The Work! To The Work! Exhortations to Christians Yet, there it lay, beneath a tree, with upturned face, and across the decaying ribs the rending gash left by the horn of the ghost-bull. The Induna's Wife But in the earlier and more natural affections, in the delineation of domestic grief, in the rending asunder the parental or filial ties, who has ever surpassed the pathetic simplicity of the Grecian bard? Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 He almost fancied the beating of his own heart could be heard, mixed with the snarling and snapping of some wild animals, and the rending of flesh. The Ruined Cities of Zululand Hardly had the echoes of the Antinomian controversy died away when there came to New England a yet more rending cataclysm, in which women were again the leading spirits. Women of America Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 10 (of 10) The sound was accompanied by a ripping and rending of woodwork as if the vessel were being torn apart by some strange, wonderful power. The Battleship Boys' First Step Upward or, Winning Their Grades as Petty Officers There was a great rending sound and, following, the disintegration of the great ship into space. Castle of Terror I longed to be off, if only to be free from this feverish anxiety which was rending our very souls. Ten Years' Captivity in the Mahdi's Camp 1882-1892 “Well, gentlemen,” said the seaman, as he raised the glass, “here’s to our voyage, and—” The word was never spoken, for a distant but loud report, followed by the rending of wood, interrupted him. The Ruined Cities of Zululand This was but the deceiving prologue to another history of suffering and reverses to us, that ever seemed bent on rending us asunder, whose hearts were bound together with such mighty bonds of love. With Ring of Shield We set out from the principle that the terrible war which today is rending the heart of this Europe of ours is, by implication, a Civil War. Above the Battle The next, with a rending crash, he and it were gone. The Great Keinplatz Experiment and Other Tales of Twilight and the Unseen From beyond the thicket came the noisy crunching of bones and the loud rending of flesh, together with the grinding, slobbering sounds of a horrible feast. Red Nails The harness cut across Brad's aching arm and set up a new, rending torture. Spillthrough The balconies and verandahs were crowded with spectators, eager to behold their future sovereign, and rending the air with their acclamations. History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 In this hideous struggle, with which the conflicting peoples are rending Europe, let us at least preserve our flag, and rally round that. Above the Battle Wolves and carrion birds were tearing and rending the bodies of the unfortunate patriots. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 353, March 1845 At the same time, those on the rise behind, left their cover, and charged down upon him, rending the air with their ear-splitting whistles. The Triumph of Hilary Blachland Somewhere aft the ship groaned and metal scraped against metal with a sickening rending sound. Spillthrough He was upon his foe again in an instant, not giving him time to charge, and successfully planted another rending stroke which disabled the narwhal's right flipper. The Haunters of the Silences A Book of Animal Life This success greatly emboldened the Mexicans, and in locust legions they pressed upon the Spanish quarters, rending the air with their unearthly shouts, and darkening the sky with their missiles. Hernando Cortez Makers of History There were the nursemaids—the babies—the beggars—the ragged urchins and the venders of the street, with their raucous cries rending the air. The Mountain Girl Now, brother, does not the system of slavery in the United States tolerate, and even authorize, the forcible rending asunder of the marriage tie? Three Prize Essays on American Slavery At any rate, when the big wheel was revolving at a rapid rate, and the balls were dropping out like immense hail stones, there was a sudden rending, splitting, breaking and cracking of wood. Dick Hamilton's Fortune The Stirring Doings of a Millionaire's Son But it fell rakingly, rending hide and muscle but breaking no bones. The Haunters of the Silences A Book of Animal Life Squealing rubber, splintering glass, rending metal, perhaps a human scream ... compounded into an awful discord that ricocheted against the quiet brownstone fronts, building to a crescendo of metallic anguish. The Prophetic Camera And now, the swollen cataracts tore madly down the mountain sides, leaping from crag to crag, and rending the clayey soil in deep clefts and gashes. The O'Donoghue Tale Of Ireland Fifty Years Ago A sound of rending branches—a staggering sidewise shock that flung him from his feet. The World with a Thousand Moons With a rending, tearing sound, one of the broad white stones turned over upon its side, and left a square gaping hole, through which streamed the light of a lantern. Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 Against those rending jaws his cable-like tentacles and tearing beak were of no avail, his unarmoured body utterly defenceless. The Haunters of the Silences A Book of Animal Life At times their expression was enigmatic beyond any rending. The Destroying Angel Hot and fierce came the cannon balls, hurtling through sails and rigging, rending through thick timbers, and sending splinters flying right and left. Stories of Our Naval Heroes Every Child Can Read There was a raucous yelling from the gateman, a monstrous rending of metal and jangling of broken glass. Clean Break As he reached the port-engine telegraph, tugging at it mechanically, the great mass struck the wheel-house with a noise of rending wood, breaking glass, and a faint cry that ceased at once. Command It seemed as if the Wolf and Human, in a final struggle for victory, were rending it apart. Dusty Star Every microscopic pain, every cellular process became a rending, tearing agony. Turning Point The knights returned it, and advanced with their respective bodies of men towards the enemy, rending the air with loud vivas of "Ulerich for ever!" The Banished A Swabian Historical Tale. In Three Volumes. The sorrows that are rending some hearts in twain are but as objects of picturesque effect to others. The Daltons, Volume II (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life He imitated the animals, too, in all his gestures, which were sudden and abrupt; the very way he ate, tearing his food and rending it in fragments, like a prey, shewed the type he followed. Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas Presently, a sharp, rending noise told him that the grizzly had attacked either a tepee, or one of the parfleches in it. Dusty Star "Heaven! what is this?" cried Ali, rending his clothes in despair. Tales from the German Comprising specimens from the most celebrated authors There was a shout and a noise of rending branches, and the water sucked out of the beavers' lodge and left it high and dry; their dam was broken. The Story of Hiawatha Adapted from Longfellow There was no bursting, no rending, no injury, no hurt; showing how wonderful he would be. Bible Myths and their Parallels in other Religions Being a Comparison of the Old and New Testament Myths and Miracles with those of the Heathen Nations of Antiquity Considering also their Origin and Meaning At any ordinary time I would not have drawn the heart rending picture of the consequences of social drinking which I was then inspired to do. Little Wolf A Tale of the Western Frontier He could not hope to escape, unless he had the power, with his bare hands, of rending asunder the solid iron walls of his prison. Tales from Blackwood, Volume 1 The Greek ran up hastily, hearing the ceaseless and deadly hisses rending the air about his head. Sónnica "My dear," Miss Lydia said, trembling, "this is very, very dreadful, but I—" The girl burst into rending crying. An Old Chester Secret A feature of peculiar pathos was the war storms' reaching and rending of the haven of refuge which the Government had provided for its wards in the Indian Territory. The Struggle for Missouri In the bushes ahead there was a rending of branches, a frantic slithering movement of a huge body. The Record of Currupira Oh, whence this too great affliction! why this separation of soul from soul! this rending asunder of the mystic bond that once united us! Wau-nan-gee or the Massacre at Chicago A Romance of the American Revolution Mag tore hers with her teeth, rending it and swallowing it quickly, watching Eric all the time. Homo Inferior Uncle! uncle! do you not know that all the furies of hell are rending my breast. The Serapion Brethren. Vol. II A strange sound of rending, followed by a heavy thud, suggested something more tangible than thunderbolts. The Silent Barrier To them temptation was irresistible for they had never known the teaching of restraint; it was the passionate rending of the bonds which had all too long stifled their youth. In the Brooding Wild The thunderbolts shattered trees and rocks, up-rooting the one and rending and tumbling the other in huge masses of debris upon the valley. The Price of the Prairie A Story of Kansas The family has stationed a band at the door to proclaim its grief by rending the ears of the passers-by. Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century He had been found covered with blood and shreds of flesh in a wood, shortly after the killing and rending of a boy by a pair of wolves. The Shunned House She spoke hardly, because her inner agony and sympathy was such, she dared not trust herself to express the feelings that were rending her. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, January, 1851 A ripping and rending, and then the buckling of the broken pieces of timber followed. Roy Blakeley in the Haunted Camp In a state of the most heart- rending anguish she called upon Duvernet time after time, and implored Providence to put an end to her miserable life of trouble and suffering. Weird Tales, Vol. II. He flew into a most terrible rage, rending his clothes, and refusing to go near her. Old-Time Stories All now is darkness; and in that deep stillness The God-man wrestles with that mighty woe; Hark to that cry, the rock of ages rending— "'Tis finished!" The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings Terrible smashing and rending sounds succeeded the first crash. The Deaves Affair Yes! they do us great injustice, Never can be comprehending All the deep and morbid sorrow Which a poor cat's heart is rending. The Trumpeter of Säkkingen A Song from the Upper Rhine. There was a sound of rending cloth, a muttered curse in the darkness, and the fingers ground harder into Ra-sed's throat. Bride of the Dark One But we did, at the expense of a little further rending, and the addition of wet feet to our other discomforts. Upon The Tree-Tops Polly instantly fell forward into the mud, her skirt catching on all the barbs in the fence and rending itself horribly. The Wide Awake Girls in Winsted I rent you from the old red hills and, rending, made you free. Poems At last, in my delirium and terror, I heard a great rending and tearing. Astounding Stories, July, 1931 But, at the end of that time, Dallas was suddenly awakened by the sound of loud stamping and rending in the lean-to. The Plow-Woman For fear of rending it, she spoke in low tones and walked with measured steps; beyond it, the sun had no more illuminating power than the moon. The German Classics, v. 20 Masterpieces of German Literature He was soliciting clients in a voice that made one think a vulture might be rending his liver. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 158, June 2, 1920 There was a terrible rending sound, the crunching of rock against rock, and slowly the walls of the cavern gave; then fell inward with a fearful crash. The Boy Allies with the Cossacks Or, A Wild Dash over the Carpathians With screams as of a thousand devils and deafening rending roars, the whole side of the Glacier seemed to lean over and fall in a great earth-shattering crescendo of noise. Astounding Stories, July, 1931 The disjointed music of a wheezy accordion was rending the night. The Plow-Woman The chorus of many feminine voices sent forth but one rending shriek. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851. In such evil plight, with fatigue racking his body and anxiety rending his; soul, he struggled toward his goal. The Wilderness Trail Schism.—Derived from a Greek word, meaning fissure, or rent, and may be defined as a rending of the Body of Christ, His Church on earth, and making divisions in the one Body. The American Church Dictionary and Cyclopedia The education of the first is polishing; of the second, seasoning; of the third, rending; of the fourth, moulding. The Stones of Venice, Volume III (of 3) There was no speaking; all was done in silence; the noise of the falling churches, the rending of the shrines, and the breaking of the images were the only sounds heard. Ringan Gilhaize or The Covenanters Once more the ground beneath throbbed and heaved as if with rending travail. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851. There toils the imprisoned gale; E'en now it comes, with voice uplifted high; Resound the shores, harsh screams the rending sail, And roars th' amazed wave, and bursts the thunder peal! My Schools and Schoolmasters or The Story of my Education. He has been again burlesqued for us rending himself in rhyme, and stretched on straw groaning elegiacs to Mary in heaven. Robert Burns Famous Scots Series There was a loud rending and ripping of splintered wood as the big man fell through one of the thin panels of the partition. Captain Pott's Minister He looked at her with eyes lowering fiercely under his eyebrows; yet in his heart he was not angry but wretched, as if something were rending him. Sir Tom Yet underneath and over the town, and through the very heart of it wherever the web of the spider went, there was a cruel rending. In the Heart of a Fool A crash as of sudden thunder—a ripping, rending roar of swift, unknown disaster—filled the air, and shook the quiet houses around our Lady of the Victories with nameless terror. The Unknown Quantity A Book of Romance and Some Half-Told Tales O, strangely as from a rending tomb In resurrection, sweet Swift wings tumultuously beat Away! Collected Poems Volume Two In the next moment he was outside the mouth of the den, his deep, fierce bark rending the silence of the night. Finn The Wolfhound The congealing surface rent by great earthquakes; cataclysms rending and tearing.... Astounding Stories, May, 1931 If they approach a blossom and find it faded, they mark their spite by a hasty rending of the petals. Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 2, No. 3 September 1897 Leapt like a hunted stag through one immense Lightning of revelation into the murk Of Erebus: then heaven o'er rending heaven Shattered and crashed down ruin over the world. Collected Poems Volume One Our lips shook, sad as lips in hell; But, fearful of the rending shore, To fill all time with sad farewell We would have sailed for evermore! Ioläus The man that was a ghost With a sound of breaking branches and rending of clothes, Drusie was hastening to the rescue. A Tale of the Summer Holidays He was thrown violently against the instrument panel; then up toward the pointed top; and at the same instant came a rending crash that drove his senses from him.... Astounding Stories, April, 1931 Out of her courts came the noise of warring sects; some contending against others with bitter warfare; and some, possessed of a demon, wallowed upon the ground foaming and rending themselves. Twelve Causes of Dishonesty Sometimes, at the rending of the seal, a gracious thing has gone forth, bearing victory and prosperity. The Thread of Gold She cried out again, with that strange effect of the words rending her. The Side Of The Angels A Novel A sudden horror of great rolling eyes and rending horns and crazy hoofs hurtled through the girl's dizzy brain. A Prairie Infanta She taught the weak to bend, the proud to pray, To power unseen, and mightier far than they: She, from the rending earth and bursting skies, Saw Gods descend and fiends infernal rise. Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers Reprinted From an English Work, Entitled "Half-Hours With The Freethinkers." The shaken prisoners realized that the rending jaws would before long undoubtedly remove the temporary obstacle; but meanwhile the hideous hissing and the fetid stench of the allosauri breath made the cell a mad-house. Astounding Stories, March, 1931 Blue lights from the stricken ship revealed her struggling fiercely among the breakers, which were rending her like wild beasts. A Noble Woman From the grave, when the clod of earth had been thrown on it, he walked slowly away, without a sign on his face of that agony which was rending his heart. Marion Fay Every merciless blow he struck was rending a fetter apart. At the Crossroads Oh, the wild joys of living! the leaping from rock up to rock, The strong rending of boughs from the fir-tree, the cool silver shock Of the plunge in a pool's living water! Old Groans and New Songs Being Meditations on the Book of Ecclesiastes As he did so, the air seemed to split in two, there was a blinding rending crash. Slaves of Mercury His final exclamation came as a terrific rending and cracking, far louder than heavy gunshots, came from the base of the tree. The Law-Breakers A deep long rending sigh burst from the bosom of Theodora, and her whole frame seemed to suffer from a painful recollection. Gómez Arias Or, The Moors of the Alpujarras, A Spanish Historical Romance. Their shrieks ring in our ears till the marble seems rending around us, but far back, at the bottom of the stairs, there is something in the shadow like a heap of clothes. Modern Painters Volume II (of V) For a second or two Sonny felt himself overwhelmed, engulfed, in a vortex of rending claws. The House in the Water A Book of Animal Stories A muffled, beating, rending sound seemed to tear its way, vibrant, through the solid ledge. The Plunderer There was a terrific rending of tree trunks and webbed creepers. The Planetoid of Peril Filled with parasites, stinking and rancid, their decaying covering of fat effectively concealed the tender flesh underneath, protecting them from fangs and rending claws. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930 Suddenly they were seen to shudder, and Diocletian rose to his feet rending his garments. Melomaniacs And now, lacking the sagacity to swallow his mortification and to bide his time, he could only suffer, rending himself in lieu of another on whom to pour his fury. The Heart of Thunder Mountain Even as the light played on her she heeled over to starboard at an angle of about forty-five degrees with an ominous rending of timbers which sounded above the roar of wind and surf. Submarine Warfare of To-day How the Submarine Menace was Met and Vanquished, With Descriptions of the Inventions and Devices Used, Fast Boats, Mystery Ships As I reached the opening, there came a rending crash, a splintering of ice, and broken blocks came hurtling into the crevasse just outside my cavern door. A Mountain Boyhood Your eyes, staring and horror-struck, will observe your own hands rending her. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930 The faint swarming toward the light and the rending of the sphere of hope, frustrate, inutile. Melomaniacs Promptly, with a sound of rending wood, the top flew half-way up. Nobody There was a sound of trampling, a crunching as of the rending of bones. The Flockmaster of Poison Creek At the same instant came a frightful, rending crash, which seemed to shake the earth, and a foam-capped wave swept across the harbour and dashed angrily against the quay. The Destroyer A Tale of International Intrigue Of little children, even, crouching, and crushing and rending the tender flesh of other little children? Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930 And the fall of rock held deeply buried all that which it had embraced in its rending. The Golden Woman A Story of the Montana Hills With a rending crash it gave, and they fell sprawling into the cabin. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March 1930 As though the gods themselves chided his temerity, the very heavens split and shattered all sound with rending uproar. Rim o' the World A moment later came a series of savage blows, of rending crashes, as though the house itself was being torn to pieces;—and then silence. The Destroyer A Tale of International Intrigue The lightning had leaped upon them like a mad panther, rending their branches from them, ripping off great strips of bark, and leaving long, gaping wounds, dripping with the white blood of trees. In a Little Town The men had all been too drunk to bother, and the women had jumped at the chance of morally rending a virtuous member of their own sex. The Golden Woman A Story of the Montana Hills Wounded men reeled, panting and sobbing, sometimes in their savage agony springing on their friends and rending them with their hands and teeth before they finally collapsed into inert heaps, dead. The Story of the Great War, Volume IV (of 8) Champagne, Artois, Grodno; Fall of Nish; Caucasus; Mesopotamia; Development of Air Strategy; United States and the War One moment, it appeared about to spring upon me, then it suddenly wheeled, and rending the air with a howl, enough to freeze one's blood, jumped into the midst of the thicket and disappeared. The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ The Original Text of Nicolas Notovitch's 1887 Discovery He heard the sharp, rending sound, as the tough fabric of his suit was torn, and felt a thin pencil of pain drawn along his body, where a claw cut his skin. Salvage in Space She died in my arms at twelve o'clock at night, O heart rending! A Complete Edition of the Works of Nancy Luce A trunk, shortened by six inches or so, dropped into its stub and fell with a prolonged sound of rending wood. Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930 So soon as the rear of Braddock’s army had crossed the river, the enemy raised a heart rending yell, and poured down a constant and most deadly fire. Chronicles of Border Warfare or, a History of the Settlement by the Whites, of North-Western Virginia, and of the Indian Wars and Massacres in that section of the Indian Wars and Massacres in that section of the State It swept the wood, rending leaves and smashing twigs, while the men crouched inside the straining tent and a constant blaze of lightning flickered about the grass. Blake's Burden Each separate part was torn from another, and the noise of the rending was great. Billy Topsail & Company A Story for Boys But O it was heart rending, For that Poor little heart, To undergo death, And for me to part with her. A Complete Edition of the Works of Nancy Luce In reality Pan could have faced any peril, any horror, any physical rending of flesh far more easily than this girl who had ruined him. Valley of Wild Horses But from behind came a sound as of rending cloth. Raiders Invisible With an appalling roar and a rending of steel and iron, the submarine halted abruptly in its headlong flight, reared upward at an acute angle and then fell forward with a tremendous crash. The Heads of Apex As it rose from threatening silence to rending shrieks, the bellowing of the frightened cattle, tied in their narrow stalls, had mingled with it, and added to its terrors. The Biography of a Prairie Girl But now, as incarnated in this millionaire mammoth, the shadowy word took on a sudden solidity, to which his teeth gave the necessary tearing and rending significance. Ghetto Comedies With a rending of his heart he swung away and left her. Valley of Wild Horses I beseech you now, boys, respect the terrible sorrow that is now rending his soul. Cuore (Heart) An Italian Schoolboy's Journal Here and there among the carcases was the body of a woman or an old man, impaled on the horn of a bull or ripped open by the rending antler of an elk. In the Morning of Time Old as I am, I feel a more rending pain now than I felt thirty years ago when Poland was entombed. Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 Indeed, the shrill notes of an amateur soprano had been rending the air throughout, but they had scarcely penetrated through his exaltation. Ghetto Comedies A fragment is the result of breaking, rending, or disruption of some kind, while a piece may be smoothly or evenly separated and have a certain completeness in itself. English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions For a minute he held up his arms, looking tensely at the sky, struggling to overcome the emotion that long had been boiling up in his heart, rending the self-complacency of his mind. The River Prophet From all but Grôm there went up a shriek so piercing that in their own ears it disguised the stupendous rending roar 235 which at that moment seemed to stun the air. In the Morning of Time Other nations at times reached the bottom of an abyss, and they came up again when from the tempest rending them emerged such a savior. Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 It was as if the earth’s dissolution were at hand—as if the long-gathered wrath of the Judgment Day were rending the earth asunder and hurling the fragments afar into the black abysm of eternity. Counsel for the Defense They lingered and listened a little longer, but no sound or 148 cry was heard to tell of the last agony under those rending fangs; the chief died in silence. The Bridge of the Gods A Romance of Indian Oregon. 19th Edition. Broad, phosphorescent swords broke smoothly with a rending, rushing gurgle over the steep cut-water. Peter the Brazen A Mystery Story of Modern China It must have fallen under the very jaws of an unseen waiting monster; for there arose at once a strange, hooting roar, followed by the sound of rending flesh and cracking bone. In the Morning of Time |
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