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Unfortunately, there's not enough violence here to fully rend and flay, just enough to bruise.
There are plenty of factual accounts in Bringing them Home which rend the heart.
How sad are the D.C.s of the world who seek only to rend and never to mesh with the warp and woof of a community.
Even today, when we approach the remaining vestige of our ancient Temple, we rend our garments like those in mourning.
Blind resistance to that rethinking will only further rend the social fabric.
He knew from experience that the whip could rip flesh from bone, and rend good armor into so much scrap metal.
These missiles locked onto their targets and streaked unerringly through space, determined to rend metal and flesh.
They were pawns, used to play a game that would otherwise rend the universe apart.
She had the scars to prove that they had learned the hard way how easily a dragon's claws could rend human flesh.
He was almost to the tree, when he heard a piercing scream rend the air.
Yet many zombies exist in an advanced state of decomposition, and lack the strength to rend and devour for themselves.
The gryphons swooped on her soldiers and began to rend them apart.
And the horde charged once more, their nerves steeled and their war-cries resonating, ready to shred, rend and tear apart any foe, be it human or not.
Cries rend the air and bodies crumple as police batons are swung and tear-gas canisters explode.
Friends, neighbors and total strangers battle one another for supremacy and cries of triumph rend the air when someone cuts the line of a rival.
Excuse me while I go rend my garments and put on sackcloth and ashes.
She'd been in a couple of minor car accidents herself, and witnessed a few others, and the rend of metal was unforgettable.
Have I not cause to rave and beat my breast, to rend my heart with grief and run distracted?
They rend the air and deafen you with their shrill cries.
We are most vulnerable now to the messages of the new subcults, to the claims and counterclaims that rend the air.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Then would the voice especially claim us for its prey, and rend us all to pieces.
It seemed to me to rend the darkness, to scoff at my heart and my sweet reasonableness!
Thee the dogs shall rend Dishonorably, and the fowls of air, But all Achaia's host shall him entomb.
They rend the heart with pity all the more for the reason that there is no sense in their poverty.
The guns still thundered, and the shells had never ceased to rend and pulverise the enemy position day and night.
There is nothing we cherish and strive to draw to us but in some hour we turn and rend it.
Do this though I undo you, though I rend you, tear you with my sharp teeth so like a wolfs.
I would talk of what was troubling me, and not try to rend my heart in pieces.
It used to rend my heart to see her, so hollow were her cheeks becoming, so sunken her eyes, so hectic her face.
I would wring my hands, and rend the air with cries of cui bono.
Unable to rend the tough fabric, it resorted to another method.
The world is quick to turn and rend with ridicule a false prophet.
He heard the raving chatter of ivories, snapping to rend him.
He was the spirit of regnant labor as he stood there, his hands outreaching to rend and crush his audience.
And Legree clenched his fist, and shook it, as if he had something in his hands that he could rend in pieces.
Another fierce glare lit up the forest and an instant crash followed that seemed to rend the tree-tops right over the boys' heads.
One breath of fear, one moment's doubt, and the troll is free to rend ye.
To tear out the weeds you would rend also the roots they twined among.
Rend Subhadra's stony bosom with a mother's cureless grief, Let her follow Abhimanyu and in death obtain relief!
Previous to that, Rend Descartes and other vivisectors in the 1700's had certainly been doing quite a bit of vivisection.
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