The country was infested with robbers, torn by factions, and a prey to all the horrors of civil commotions.

Here also they found a brother of the cacique and other Indians, who were dedicated to the abominations before glanced at; fifty of these wretches were torn to pieces by the dogs, and not without the consent and approbation of the Indians.

Everything combined to make it seem a page torn from one of those old-time fairy books they used to love to read when much younger, and more gullible.

It was with startling abruptness that the two figures were torn apart, each resolved again into an individual.

To do justice to their case one ought to quote the whole reportchildren brutally torn away from their mothers, poor wretches crowded for days together in carriages so tightly packed that they had to stand up, cases of madness occurring among these half-stifled crowds, howling with hunger.

The time has not yet come for writing this piece of history, but we cannot refrain from referring to the sufferings of these children of the North, boys and girls, torn from their families, carried off like bands of slaves to other invaded regions to be employed on forced labour.

Just see how they have torn their handsome coats, and how the blood is dripping from them.

He was snapping and snarling and biting at his chain as he went along, though Mr. Wood led him very kindly, and when he saw me he acted as if he could have torn me to pieces.

The young dog belonging to the house had pulled the shirt from the line and torn it to pieces.

Every bird of the rarer kinds that is killed, such as humming birds, orioles and kingfishers, means the death of several othersthat is, the young that starve to death, the wounded that fly away to die, and those whose plumage is so torn that it is not fit to put in a fine lady's bonnet.

Cracky, the way he stared, if I'd had the badge, I'd have torn it off my arm and handed it to him, honest I would.

The idea of being torn in pieces by a furious mob was exceedingly disagreeable.

I called to mind the apology of the Methodist minister, who, just after a declaration of his that he was not afraid to die, ran away from a furious bull that attacked him,"that, though not fearing death, he did not like to be torn in pieces by a mad bull."

He protested that she was freethat she had free papers, and was torn from him, and shut up in the jail.

On Lady Belstone's return as a widow, to the home of her fathers, she had been torn with anxiety and indecision regarding her choice of a sleeping apartment.

And you are to devote yourself to Peter, and not to be torn with self-reproach.

Thrice only did he remain in the kingdom as much as two years at a time; for the most part his visits were but for a few months torn from the incessant tumult and toil of government abroad; and it was only after long years of battling against invincible forces that he at last recognized England as the main factor of his policy, and in great crises chose rather to act as an English king than as the creator of an empire.

A copy of the writing was torn down the middle, and one half, after the fashion of the "tallies" of the day, was given to Thomas in token of his promise, while the other was laid up in the royal treasury.

His helmet lay upon the sand; its crest, A floating plume of deep-hued violet, Was tossed and torn in fury by the wind Until it seemed a thing of life.

He vividly remembered that alsothe red-hot anguish as it had torn its way through him, the awful emptiness of death that had followed.

It was as if a tight band round her heart had suddenly been torn asunder.

I challenge a new generation of YOUNG Americans to a season of service, to act on your idealism, by helping troubled children, keeping company with those in need, reconnecting our torn communities.

Why is it that no man stays away When he's sworn to his friends he would? Where lies the grip this country hath All tangled around the heart That takes a grip that can never slip And can never be torn apart?

"One of the citizens of the demonstration; and moreover, the sentinels had their muskets torn from them;" affirm the partisans of the Central Committee, and they bring forward, among other proofs; the evidence of an eye-witness, a foreign general, who saw it all from a window of the Rue de la Paix.

The Porte Maillot has been entirely destroyed for some time, in spite of what the Commune has told us to the contrary; the drawbridge is torn from its place, the ruined walls and bastions have fallen into the moat.