Which preposition to use with rendings

of Occurrences 40%

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.

in Occurrences 3%

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.

to Occurrences 2%

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?

for Occurrences 1%

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.

than Occurrences 1%

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.

Which preposition to use with  rendings