Nor was this fancy, on my part; for, all at once, the bookshelf, along the sidewall, collapsed, with a cracking and rending of rotten wood, precipitating its contents upon the floor, and filling the room with a smother of dusty atoms.

The women began to draw on their white gloves, and the seams rending in several places, Anne said, "This is just the way our gloves served us at my mistress's funeral."

He longed to live, to have a hundredfold his strength and fury, to be gifted with a genius for time and place and bloody deed, to have the war-gods set him a thousand opportunities, to beat with iron mace and cut with sharp bayonet and rend with hard handto kill and kill and kill the hideous thing that was German.

That night the storm reached its greatest fury, and, rending asunder the protecting pines, invaded the very hut.

I mourn no fancied wound, Pangs too true this heart have wrung, Since the snakes which curl around Selim's brows my bosom stung. Destin'd now to keener woes, I must see the youth depart, He must go, and as he goes Rend at once my bursting heart.

It meant the rending in pieces of that which was holy, the trampling into the earth of that sacred gift which had only now been bestowed upon him.

Canst Thou not so order all things that a day or two's delay of Kincaid's Battery need work no evil to the Cause nor any such rending to any heart as must be hers if Kincaid's Battery should go to-night?

I will not fly before a boy, before Rend of Vaudemont, who is coming at the head of this scum.

Mr. and Mrs. Breen being left there with their own five suffering children and the four other poor, moaning little waifs, were tortured by situations too heart-rending for description, too pitiful to seem true.

0 happy I, if my tormenting smart, Could rend like her's, my griefe-afflicted heart!

They maintained that such a power was essential to the church; that to deny it was to rend into fragments the seamless coat of Christ, to encourage disunion and schism, and to open the door to every species of theological war.

Certainly there is a jealousy in unparallel subjects, which is little less heart-rending than the passion which we more strictly christen by that name.

Perhaps there is authority sufficient to place the verb rend among those which are redundant.