15 Words to use with rending

There was an instant of silence, followed by a terrible rending sound; then a loud blast.

"Qui nous rend maîtres d'Albe"....

He saw as with a rending shock how like the widow of John Charteris was to Anne Willoughby; and unforgotten pulses, very strange and irrational and dear, perplexed him sorely.

And the rending sobs continued to issue from the full-bodied ridiculous man of fifty, utterly careless of decorum.

Then came the rending crash as the great tree smashed prone, crushing what small timber stood in its path, followed by the earth-quivering shock of its impact with the soil.

She too had been uninjured; his arm had saved her from the rending fangs.

Then the whole submarine trembled; there was a shock, and then a rending jar above.

The rending o' rocks and the pu'in' doun o' auld houses

" Another match flamed; he saw a stump of a candle, seized it, lighted it, and, holding it aloft, gazed down upon the most heart rending spectacle he had ever witnessed.

Something awful but fresh, breaking across his distracted mind, had diverted the torrent of his despairing fear lest his child should die through his mistake, and though he had bowed down his head and wept since the unexpected loss of another, those were healing tears, for with them came for a time escape from the rending strain that was breaking him down.

The passage is from the fifth part of le Paysan parvenu (Oeuvres, tome VIII, p. 177) and not from Marianne, and is, exactly quoted, as follows: "Mais c'est la nature qui nous rend amoureux; nous tenons d'elle l'utile que nous enjolivons de l'honnête; j'appelle ainsi le sentiment; on n'enjolive pourtant plus guère; la mode en est aussi passée dans ce temps j'écris.

Even though her fangs missed his throat, the power of the blow and her rending talons would have certainly snatched away his life as a storm snatches a leaf.

An unattached goat, a martyr to the radical theory of personal investigation, followed in the footsteps of infantile humanity, retired with even greater promptitude, and was fain to stay its stomach on a presumably empty rend-rock

TÉMOIN, m., qui rend témoignage; V. OCULAIRE.

YesI am changedand this gray gnarled form, Its leaves all scattered by the rending blast, Is but an image of my heart;the storm The storm of life, doth make us such at last!

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