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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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