Through an open stairway door Gramps heard the eloquent words of the clergyman and the heart-rending sobs of his own wife and children.
Mrs. Gramps and the three children who were still at home were in the barnyard wringing their hands and crying in a heart-rending manner.
The Dyaks, encouraged by the presence of Muda Saffir in their rear, held their ground; and the infuriated, brainless things that followed the wielder of the bull whip threw themselves upon the head hunters with beating hands and rending fangs.
It would have been as easy to snatch the carcass from the tiger that was rending it.
The balconies and verandahs were crowded with spectators, eager to behold their future sovereign, and rending the air with their acclamations.
He gave one rending sob, and Chris felt his eyes prick with tears at the sight of so much sorrow.
There was a rending thunder from the gate; the wicket reeled in and fell, and in a moment through the flimsy opening had sprung the figure of a man.
The sides of the galleons had been riddled with shot, and the splinters caused by the rending of the massive timbers had done even greater execution than the iron hail.
He cried out in piercing tones, as the lion cries when it sees the hyena rending his young, as the eagle cries when the storm-wind sweeps away its nest with its young.
Now I have saved Akut from death beneath the rending fangs of Sheeta.
After a moment, no rending fangs having buried themselves in his trembling body, he again ventured to open his eyes.
Then came silence--silence except for the rending of bloody flesh and the crunching of human bones between mighty jaws.
Rokoff fought furiously but futilely against the growling, rendingfate that had overtaken him.
The topgallant halyards were let go; but while the sails were being clewed up, the fierce wind following the rain caught them from their confining gear, rending them into a thousand shreds.
They attacked the carcass furiously, as if they had a personal enmity against it, chopping through the massive bones and rending off huge lumps of the flesh with marvellous speed.
The two vessels swung side by side amidst a thunderous roar of flapping canvas, crackling of fallen spars, and rending of wood as the shrouds tore away the bulwarks.
He returned at last to the shop, and with heart-rending dignity faced the dispenser of justice, who by this time had put in his appearance.
One morning she knelt before the altar in unusually heart-rending despair.
A heart-rending scream caused the frightened mother to leave the shop and run out into the yard.
Gradually mouth, eyes and forehead kindled with glorious joy, and instead of that heart-rending petition that broke from her at first, her voice mellowed into soft throes and murmurs of praise.
Before anything can be done there is a tremendous grinding, rending explosion; the thin steel walls contract under the force of the released energy.
A score of crows were busy rending and tearing at the carcases, and they rose, cawing hoarsely, and flapping heavily away a few yards as the buggy passed.
Many a time have I seen old Curly seize and throttle a big dog he caught rending a little one--as I have seen George leap to the aid of the defenceless.
For an instant there are the sinister sounds of savage snarls, rending flesh, cracking bones and screams of pain and fear, and then a dull red flash heralds the rifle's roar, and the tawny terror falls gasping his life out across his prey.
But bitter, heart-rending misfortune is a school which develops not only the good--it fosters also many faults.
To be sure, passionate hours of sorrow and heart-rending cares came to him over and over again.
With warm sympathy Staupitz looked upon such heart-rending torment, and sought to give him peace by blunt counsel.
And in truth it is a terrific power, cleaving the hardest rocks, rending the mighty oak, and fusing the most refractory substances.
Some tragic rendingasunder he could have believed in, some wild and strange mystery.
John liked the sound of the wind sweeping over the hills, rending the trees, and filling the horizon as with a crowd of shadows in pain, twisting and bending with every fresh sweep of the breeze.
It was; because after then, however miserable she might be, there was no conflict over her, no rending of the strained heart both ways.
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.
It was produced by a flute, and the notes, softly modulated at first, were abruptly changed to heart-rending shrieks.
Jeanne Marie uttered a heart-rending cry, and sprang like an exasperated tiger from her bed.
They all pressed up to him and clasped him in their midst, while loud sobs and heart-rending cries filled the room.
See, for example, Under Fire by Henri Barbusse, and the heart-rending tales issued by Andreas Latzko under the collective title of Men in Battle.
All the interest of the heart-rending tragedy now turns to the prison where Jeanne woke in the early morning without, as yet, any knowledge of her fate.
