795 examples of rend in sentences

It was a farrago of nonsense, part of his own inventing, part (as it seemed) wild and confused reminiscences of the published speeches of the man he aped, all strung together on some invisible thread of insane reasoning, delivered with a mad vehemence and intensity that shook and seemed to rend his feeble frame.

This only is the passion that can my bosom rend; 'Tis this alone that makes me long for death, my sufferings end.

" Then Antinous raged highly, and threatened to drag him by the heels, and to rend his rags about his ears, if he spoke another word.

Methinks I hear the drum's tumultuous sound The victor's shouts and dying groans confound, The dreadful burst of cannon rend the skies, And all the thunder of the battle rise!

The meeting points the sacred hair dissever From the fair head, forever, and forever! Then flashed the living lightning from her eyes, And screams of horror rend th' affrighted skies.

Tyranny and tortures shall not rend me from her."

Forceless, perforce, I sank down to this pain, As greedy famine doth constrain the hawk Piecemeal to rend and tear the yielding prey: So far'd it with me in that heavy stound.

A sudden new vigour of thought seemed to rend it inside out almost in those first few seconds.

Verily, I wish Satan would rend you limb from limb, all of ye." "Go to!

My great grief at the absence of my husband will rend my heart so sorely that I must needs have some pleasure to drive away the sorrow and perpetuate the bloom on these cheeks and the brightness in these eyes for you.

What mean ye, that ye dare to rend The tender mother's heart?

And glaciers split and rend, And sweepers turn the flimsy craft And trails come to an end; As long as flashing Northern Lights Flame in the Arctic sky, Your boldest ones, your bravest sons Come North to win or die.

Methinks I hear the drum's tumultuous sound The victor's shouts and dying groans confound, The dreadful burst of cannon rend the skies, And all the thunder of the battle rise.

The eagle hesitated between scorn of the visitor and a faint desire to pounce on him and rend him to pieces.

So when I thinke to end that I begonne, I must begin and never bring to end: For with one looke she spils that long I sponne, And with one word my whole years work doth rend.

Deep in the stormy ocean's hidden cave Buried, and lost to human care and sight, What power hath interposed to rend thy grave?

Full soon the public will in pieces rend it.

The bonds which imprison Your souls, rend away!

At length the attempt to rend it by means of gunpowder was made.

Ay, but when the night's o'erhead, Limb from limb they rend the dead! REVIEWS AND LITERARY NOTICES.

Le grand homme se rend avec joie à cette demande, et remercie l'auteur de la lettre de la bonne opinion qu'il a de lui; puis, saisi tout à coup de méfiance, il ajoute: j'espère cependant que votre demande n'est pas une ruse pour vous procurer mon autographe.

May the bays Blend well with Hymen's roses, and long days Of happiness and honour crown the pair For whom to-day loud plaudits rend the air.

He knows very well that nothing ever appeases or softens the fury of tigers; if I were to crawl upon the ground before Voltaire, he would triumph thereat, no doubt, but he would rend me none the less.

We heard the rend of hide as our efforts, combined with those of Moze, loosed him from the great yellow claws.

In either case the animal-skin is conceived as a cloak thrown round the wicked enchanter; and if you can only pierce the skin, whether by the stab of a knife or the shot of a gun, you so rend the disguise that the man or woman inside of it stands revealed in his or her true colours.

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