Clanging shields and biting falchions Rend the air with fearful terror.
I am sure that we have cause toRend our Hearts this Day, when we see [45] what an High Treason has been committed against the most high God, by the Witchcrafts in our Neighbourhood.
When the old people of God heard any Blasphemies, tearing of his Ever-Blessed Name to pieces, they were to Rend their Cloaths at what they heard.
There is a cloud before my mind--oh, God in Heaven, that I could rend it!
Luzerne, Weep, weep, and rendyour hair for those who never shall return.
Rend These doors so pitilessly locked, To keep the friendless out!
The living fires come flashing from her eyes, And screams of horror rend th' affrighted skies.
With groans the Latins rend the vaulted sky, Woods, hills, and valleys to the voice reply.
Then flashed the living lightning from her eyes, 155 And screams of horror rend th' affrighted skies.
Where is the rude hand, to rend this tissue of existence?
Should the lion turn and rend every snarling jackal, Or an eagle be stopt in his career to punish the petulance of sparrows?
Only for infancy, fond mother, rend not those first affections; Only for the sensitive and timorous, consign not thy darling unto misery.
The perfect government of woman is a task to rend a man's heart, and we are compelled to remain in perfect submission to them; that is, I imagine, the best manner in which to solve the most agonising enigma of marriage.
While hearty shouts will rendthe air, With, Mind, and give it to him, Charley.
I will rend these chains, and then your life shall pay!
By that he controls beasts, who could rend him to a thousand bits, with ease: only they dare not.
Her teeth were set hard; her hands tightly clenched; her dark brows knit, as though about to spring upon the speaker and rend her to pieces.
He leaped to his feet, glaring with rage, as though he would spring upon her, and rend her limb from limb.
If the dynamic forces of nature lie pent up in the molecules, then man must array molecular force against molecular force in order to rend rocks and tear mountains in sunder.
When all was quiet, scores of vast crocodiles came out of the pool, and so successfully did they rend and tear the huge carcases that in the morning nothing remained but a few bones.
And there went a constant great thundering over the Land, because that the Earth-Force did rend and split the air, and did tear up the earth.
He shall not uncover his head: he shall not rend his garments.
It seemed to me to rend the darkness, to scoff at my heart and my sweet reasonableness!
A thousand invisible ties keep us in the place where chance has set us; and, when we are about to rend them, they become so many unsuspected pangs.
Yet one day, with unconscious art, May some rude hand unfold Great Wodin's breast, and rend apart The fragment from its hold.
Does it not enter into the churches and rend them asunder?
To strengthen, perpetuate, and extend this interest was the object for which the insurgents would rend the Union, even by war; while the government claimed no right to do more than to restrict the territorial enlargement of it.
The happiest thing we know of it is, that it will one day come to an end: Psyche will rend off her disguises, and soar in her proper form.
He bids into the world, tender little innocent souls, knowing that he cannot or will not stand guard over them to ward off the fierce, wild devils that lie in wait to rend them.
Now rave and shriek, And rend your scatter'd hair.
Rage and despair, a thousand warring passions, All rise by turns, and piecemeal rend my heart.
