One who tears or rends anything; also, one who rages or raves with violence.
A simple explanation of this fact may be found in the sense of insecurity which the uncertain issue of the civil war that rages about them creates in their minds.
Friedrich was far from suspecting therages that lurked in the Polish Majesty, and least of all owing to what.
All about the drunken man rages the struggle for the possession of him.
Down he goes in the thick of it, and the combat rages over his body after the fashion of the Greeks and Trojans over the body and armor of a fallen hero.
Here Herod rages in the pageant, and in the street also.
I should gladly give my own to have him do so; but misfortune rages now in the world like a pestilence.
Even whilst the disorder rages with malignant heats I never heard them womanishly crying or complaining.
Dinna you see that the lass rages because she likes you fine; and since she's a Hieland maid brought up under the blue lift she hasna learnt to hate and smile in the same breath.
I'd be afeard to do that, except I was the like of yourself with blind rages tearing me within, for I'm thinking you should have had great tussling when the end was come.
But the wind at that time was to him the evil storm that tousles cottages, shakes chimneys, forces its way into rooms, rages across country, and brings the winter.
It is fed from the depth of a thousand dells, Around them it foams and rages and swells; 30 And their swords and their sceptres I floating see, Like wrecks on the surge of eternity.
With levin as from Jovian hand She'll light the floods below, As they roar on the shore, When the stormy winds do blow; When the tempest rages loud and long, And the stormy winds do blow.
In it he simply announces his "duel with Shields," and then goes on to "narrate the particulars of the duelling business, which still rages in this city.
Dear Speed:- "You have heard of my duel with Shields, and I have now to inform you that the duelling business still rages in this city.
Smallpox rages in Africa as it rages nowhere else in these days.
The irrepressible Lutyens rages about us here, known at a glance by that modern note of the archaic which has become the most banal form of our cleverness.
But the worst is when one lies helpless in bed, and the tempest rages in the small crooked streets, shaking the eaves and tearing off the tiles.
Helpless rages of grief urged him to break from all bonds, and plunge headlong to engage her wrath or her mercy.
That his passion could survive rages of vanity, often and deep wounded, proved its vitality and worth.
The element of humor was never lacking, and the rages became less violent and less frequent.
What king or man had seen himself delivered from such strangling imbroglios of destruction, such devouringrages of a hostile world?
The devil rages against me simply because Christ has vanquished him through me, his most wretched of vessels” (Dec.
But if he rages against God, then, privily, I must believe him to be possessed of the devil.
He wrote: “Duke George is a foe of my doctrine, hence he rages against the Word of God; I must therefore believe he rages against God Himself and His Christ.
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