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    1. Oh, that you would rend the heavens and come down, that the mountains would tremble before you! (Isaiah 64:1)


    2. They focused the demon wind on speed and strength, preferring to get up close to their opponents and rend them to pieces with their hands


    3. I shall rend their hearts


    4. For the day of the Lord is great and very awe-some; who can endure it? "Yet even now," declares the Lord, "return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning; and rend your hearts and not your garments


    5. “What God has joined together let no man rend asunder


    6. 31 And David said to Joab, and to all the people that were with him, Rend your clothes, and gird you with sackcloth, and mourn


    7. have commanded you, I will surely rend the kingdom from you, and will give it to your servant


    8. 12 Regardless in your days I will not do it for David your father's sake, but I will rend it out of the hand of your son


    9. when you heard his words against this place, and against the inhabitants of it, and humbledst yourself before me, and did rend your


    10. 1Kin 11:11 Wherefore the LORD said unto Solomon, Forasmuch as this is done of thee, and thou hast not kept my covenant and my statutes, which I have commanded thee, I will surely rend the kingdom from thee, and will give it to thy servant

    11. 1 Oh that you would rend the heavens, that you would come down, that the mountains might flow down at your presence, 2 As when


    12. it shall fall; Thereshall be an overflowing shower; and you, O great hailstones, shall fall; and a stormy wind shall rend it


    13. Lord God; I will even rend it with a stormy wind in my fury; and there shall be an overflowing shower in my anger, and great


    14. you did break, and rend all their shoulder, and when they leaned on you, you brake, and made all their loins to be at a standstill


    15. meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and will rend the caul of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lion: the


    16. with mourning: 13 And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn to the Lord your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow


    17. 23 And there was an hole in the midst of the robe, as the hole of an habergeon, with a band round about the hole, that it should not rend


    18. 6 And Moses said to Aaron, and to Eleazar and to Ithamar, his sons, Uncover not your heads, neither rend your clothes; lest you die, and lest wrath come on all the people: but let your brethren, the whole house of Israel, bewail the burning which the Lord has kindled


    19. 56 And if the priest look, and, note, the plague be somewhat dark after the washing of it; then he shall rend it out of the garment, or out of the skin, or out of the warp, or out of the woof:


    20. 10 And he who is the high priest among his brethren, on whose head the anointing oil was poured, and that is consecrated to put on the garments, shall not uncover his head, nor rend his clothes;

    21. habergeon, with a band round about the hole, that it should not rend


    22. 6 And Moses said unto Aaron, and unto Eleazar and unto Ithamar, his sons, Uncover not your heads, neither rend your clothes;


    23. 56 And if the priest look, and, behold, the plague be somewhat dark after the washing of it; then he shall rend it out of the


    24. put on the garments, shall not uncover his head, nor rend his clothes;


    25. 28 And the soldiers when they had crucified Jesus took his garments and throw lots for them in four parts to every party of the soldiers a part; and his tunic was without sewing from the top woven throughout; And they said one to another Let us not rend it but throw lots for it whose it shall be and the scripture was fulfilled which says They divided my garments among them And throw the lot for my vesture


    26. Our prayer should be, "Oh Lord, rend the heavens and come


    27. 5 Why are there strivings and anger and division and war among you? 6 Have we not one God and one Christ? Is not the Spirit of grace which was poured out on us one? Is not our calling one in Christ? 7 Why do we tear apart and rend asunder the members of Christ and make sedition against our body and come to such a degree of madness that we forget we are members one of another? Remember the words of our Lord Jesus 8 for he said Woe to that man; it were good for him if he had never been born rather than that he should cause one of my elect to offend


    28. I would fill my mind with thoughts that will not rend


    29. Naming an evil is all that is required to rend it powerless


    30. As he slithered inside, I longed to rend him limb by limb

    31. I had to temper her inclination to rend the puny mortals to


    32. “Leif and Sigrid, you can help me to rend the rocks with a telekinetic spell


    33. Why had not the winged master come to the aid of its slaves when he struggled with them? Had it feared to come within reach of fangs that might turn and rend it? Craft and caution had lurked in that misshapen skull, but had not availed in the end


    34. He felt fangs and talons rend his flesh; flabby cables that were yet hard as iron encircled his limbs and body, and worse than all, something like a whip of scorpions fell again and again across his shoulders, back and breast, tearing the skin and filling his veins with a poison that was like liquid fire


    35. 'If I am in your power in this chamber, you are no less in the power of my subjects, who will rend you to pieces if you touch me


    36. He stopped short, half crouching, sword ready, transformed into a savage figure of suspicion and menace, poised to spring and rend


    37. There are dark worlds barely guessed by man, wherein formless monsters stalk—fiends which may be drawn from the Outer Voids to take material shape and rend and devour at the bidding of evil magicians


    38. Not lightly is the veil rent; yet I will rend it a little, and show you your capital city


    39. In that chamber, where a gaunt, hairy beast of a man in leather breeks squatted gnawing a beef-bone voraciously, stood the machines of torture—racks, boots, hooks and all the implements that the human mind devises to tear flesh, break bones and rend and rupture veins and ligaments


    40. And her last groan shall rend the azure sky:

    41. Their huge arms could rend a person in two with little effort


    42. She would have to make a decision -- one that would rend her heart in two


    43. When a mass collapses into this roiling writhe of being tortured with one's own impotence to satiate one's appetites, either its governors must lead this ravenous wrath into a war of revenge or it shall rend the State with its agonizing throes of self-dismembering rebellion


    44. Ceaseless hard work and the care of many children do away very quickly with the youth both of face and heart of the poor man's wife, and with the youth of heart go the yearnings that rend her whose heart, whatever her face may be doing, is still without a wrinkle


    45. I would wring my hands, and rend the air with cries of _cui bono_


    46. And last, but not least, your Matron of Honor will be here as a decoy to distract those who would rend your love for Marcus asunder


    47. claws—waiting for him! Waiting to claw and rip, to rend his flesh and destroy him, the way that lion had almost done in


    48. Indeed the splendent Lingam ye founded at Naraka has begun to rend through thy Noosphere


    49. And as Americans appreciate their heritage of freedom and take stock on this special day of where our country finds itself in relation to the tangled web of despotic nations and nihilistic revolutionaries attempting to snuff out freedom for all mankind, they would do well to consider the so-called cultured despisers of liberty who would rend asunder our preeminence in the world just assuredly as any diaper-headed terrorist but in simply a far more subtle and thus possibly far more seditious manner


    50. rasgar to tear, rend




























    1. Used for tearing and rending their prey, she guessed


    2. But there is no sound of squealing tyres, no rending of metal


    3. Some were weeping openly, others were rending their hair, literally tearing it out in clumps while still others were biting their own tongues, blood flowing freely from their mouths


    4. Somehow, his reconstruction was more painful than his rending


    5. it was nothing compared to the rending jolt she felt when Trumpet thrust his member into her


    6. Ship timbers scraped stone with a rending crunch, but Father managed to avoid disaster


    7. The person started wailing and I shit myself because the sound was not only scary but heart rending as well then a nurse came along and gave him something for the pain and he went quite


    8. Muti, muti, hilfe bitte, muti hilfe Ernst”, it was heart rending to listen to and it just went on


    9. and again, piercing My side without ceasing to the rending of My heart?!


    10. 2 Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver

    11. each note more heart rending than the last


    12. heard, then again the rending screaming of metal as another train


    13. rending long tears in them


    14. rending contrast between the moment before and the moment after the


    15. Above the crunch of the rending mail, she distinctly heard the snap of the shoulder-bone


    16. 'Dead, with the others! It was devils fell upon us! They were rending us to pieces before we could awake—a dozen good rovers died in their sleep


    17. With a rending shudder the portal buckled inward


    18. He reeled drunkenly, and then, with a splintering of bones, a rending of flesh and muscle and a snapping of mail-links, his breast burst outward with a shower of blood, and through the ghastly aperture something red and dripping shot through the air into the Master's outstretched hand, as a bit of steel leaps to the magnet


    19. Groping in a rolling cloud that blinded him, Conan felt a rending sensation of dislocation—and then room and mist and brown man were gone together


    20. They had learned that it was fatal to divide their forces against such an incarnation of clawing, rending fury

    21. Instantly there was a rending crash and the jutting ledge gave way, precipitating the pirate back into the court


    22. His war cry rose above the medley of the carnage, and the bewildered but furious Zingarans took fresh heart and redoubled their strokes, until the rending of flesh and the crunching of bone beneath the swords almost drowned the howls of pain and wrath


    23. From beyond the thicket came the noisy crunching of bones and the loud rending of flesh, together with the grinding, slobbering sounds of a horrible feast


    24. With a snapping and rending of bushes and saplings the monster came hurtling through the thickets, and they fled up the rock before him like leaves blown before a wind


    25. With a snapping of bolts and a rending crash of wood, the door splintered and burst inward


    26. The Rending of the Veil


    27. 12 When the high priest heard Jesus utter these words, he was exceedingly angry, and rending his outer garments, he exclaimed: "What further need have we of witnesses? Behold, now have you all heard this man's blasphemy


    28. Sailors leaping down into the waist to grapple or smite at the naked white giant hewing like one possessed at the shackles, found themselves dragged down by the hands of slaves yet unfreed, while others, their broken chains whipping and snapping about their limbs, came up out of the waist like a blind, black torrent, screaming like fiends, smiting with broken oars and pieces of iron, tearing and rending with talons and teeth


    29. The silent rending of a white satin glove


    30. heart rending message that can ever cross the sea: ‘Mayday Mayday

    31. There was a rending sound, as the ship struck rock, an unwelcome grinding accompaniment to the melodic chorus of the dancing temptresses ahead of them


    32. At the thought of this four-letter word, Bob stopped, arms poised for rending, teeth mid-gnash


    33. But here he was combatting a legion of goons bent upon rending him to pieces


    34. What right had this one, only because my apparel was scanty, to smile at me and say _prachtvoll_? I was so much startled by the unexpected exclamation from a person who had the minute before been rending the air with her laments, that my foot slipped on the wet planks, I just heard the bathing woman advising me to take care, just had time to comment to myself on the foolishness of such advice to one already hurling through space, and then came a shock of all-engulfing coldness and wetness and suffocation, and the next moment there I was gasping and spluttering exactly as the other bath-guest had gasped and spluttered, but with this difference, that she had clutched the rope and shrieked, and I, with all the convulsive energy of panic, was shrieking and clutching the bath-guest


    35. She had brought violent discord into a hitherto peaceful vicarage, thwarted the hopes of a mother, been the cause of a bitter quarrel between her and her son, brought out by her mysteriousness a prying tendency in the son that might have gone on sleeping for ever, entirely upset the amiable Tussie's life by rending him asunder with a love as strong as it was necessarily hopeless, made his mother anxious and unhappy, and, what was perhaps the greatest achievement of all, actually succeeded in making that mother cry


    36. the rending of garments


    37. And that he, bleeding as he was himself from the lacerations of the violent rending asunder from his wife to whom he had been, as he had told her, devoted, that he should--oh no, it wasn't possible; and she hung her head, shocked at her thoughts


    38. It was such a one who had ensnared him in years past and led him to the rending fields at Marshwren and elsewhere


    39. The parting was heart rending beyond description or conception but Rania


    40. Their claws tried to grab at him but he twisted from one encounter to the next, rending

    41. In the Gospels they appear as causing deafness, dumbness, madness, epilepsy, and exhibitions of violence equal to the rending of bands of iron


    42. It chronicles Craig's awakening to issues of injustice and poverty as well as the incredible diversity and heart rending beauty of the world


    43. I had felt for some time that I was turning her soul upside down and rending her heart, and--and the more I was convinced of it, the more eagerly I desired to gain my object as quickly and as effectually as possible


    44. Wringing his hands and rending his beard, he


    45. that tract giving way to such fierce tearing and rending, he pierced


    46. in, its blind rage soon made way for the rest, piercing, rending, and


    47. Then the wall opposite me flashed into a golden yellow and dissolved with a rending thunder that hammered my brain into a pulp


    48. Butting then and goring all before him, and mad and wild like an owerdriven steer, he ploughs up the tender furrow all insensible to Louisa's complaints; nothing can stop, nothing can keep out a fury like his: with which, having once got its head in, its blind rage soon made way for the rest, piercing, rending, and breaking open all obstruction


    49. Another rending, tearing crash from above announced the destruction of the main topmast


    50. We had turned away from the edge, and had penetrated about fifty yards of close brushwood, when there came a frightful rending crash from behind us

























    1. He takes me in my dreams and tortures me, grinds my flesh to sand, rends my love and hope from me, and spits and pisses on me


    2. rends in the walls


    3. Her scream rends the afternoon peace, just as her cat does to the bird’s throat


    4. Not only does he cry out in terror, foam at the mouth, and fall like a dead person at the time of seizure, but oftentimes this evil spirit which possesses him rends him in convulsions and sometimes has cast him into the water and even into the fire


    5. The baron knew that Conan was like a wounded lion that rends and tears even in his death-throes


    6. “Taut as a sail when the west wind rends his skyways,


    7. in the fire and who are made to drink boiling water so it rends their


    8. The great tumult, echoing through heaven and earth, rends the hearts


    9. The complaint of humanity is as a roll of heaven’s artillery, commencing with low and threatening notes and increasing until the sound is sent from cloud to cloud and the lightning rends the air and earth


    10. And as it rends the skies

    11. But my vague wish for I do not know what, gentle, and rather sweetly resigned when the accompaniment is Bach, swell suddenly while I listen to them into a terrifying longing that rends and shatters my soul


    12. Shock on the faces of the audience…randy and siblings nod in satisfaction, ebele’s mum rends her hair and wails, sikira and Kemi shed tears, Mrs Graham shakes her head in disbelief


    13. enemies? artillery rends the air in the battleground


    14. With each divine impulse the mind rends the thin rinds of the visible and finite, and comes out into eternity, and inspires and expires its air


    15. The unhappy man turned to the spectators and the judges with a smile which still rends the hearts of all who saw it whenever they think of it


    16. He had reached the point where a man tries to make up his mind and to accept that which rends his heart


    17. He rends defenseless women and little children in his lair, but how recently has one of you seen him fight with men? Why, even I, a midget beside him, felled him with a single blow of my fist


    18. I could have torn him limb from limb, as the lion rends the antelope


    1. If you live alone in a large home, consider having a housemate / companion who would be willing to do the grocery shopping and cooking in exchange for rent


    2. We’ve found another house to rent … sorry to mess you around like this


    3. More urgently, where is that going to leave me financially? I was counting on the rent from the house to pay for this place


    4. With no job, I dare not get into financial difficulties with paying rent … I can’t afford to leave the house in Bridgwater empty either …


    5. ‘Is it going to cause you problems, not getting the rent on that house?’


    6. ‘But I can’t afford to pay any rent


    7. ‘I wouldn’t dream of asking you to pay rent


    8. He zoomed in expecting to see a human figure in an exosuit floating out there in the debris, clinging to a piece of rent bulkhead like some parody of a castaway


    9. The rent and burning alien hull spun down on top of their heads and Tig wanted more than anything else to run, but there was nowhere to go


    10. girls who crave love with low rent boys,

    11. It is when that veil is rent off from Israel nationally that they are then able to receive the Lord Jesus as their Messiah


    12. the place in search of a rent book and a monthly


    13. And there, sitting under a spilled dollop of chicken jalfreezi was the object he was looking for, his parent’s council rent book


    14. Eventually, armed with the address printed in the rent book, the police handed the kids over to a lady from social services and filed their report, a copy of which was sent to the local police station where Kirk and Ruby lived


    15. 'You mean the Kuber sweet shop that just closed? The temple trust will rent it


    16. We earn th< rent first and then


    17. 'This is our profit for the first three months after paying rent


    18. Alastair and I really must talk about money and how much we can afford to pay in rent


    19. There is this room and one other tiny room that I have taken on rent


    20. At first the telephone conversation with the old woman went very badly, with her great-aunt being extremely hostile to the memory of her nephew’s long forgotten children, but, as Annie described her predicament and as the old woman remembered that it had always been the men in the Craig family who had been the cause of the greatest unhappiness, she eventually found it in her heart to offer the young woman one of her flats at a very competitive rent

    21. Mama's snacks? The rent is not that cheap, I thought as I left the shop with a


    22. this shop at such a low rent, you owe US something


    23. And given the location, the rent


    24. rent of two, you wouldn't be able to save this much,' Mama said


    25. A cheaper rent


    26. they could rent my cottage! I could find another tenant for the one Jo currently has


    27. ‘What? Rent this cottage? Oh, Anna are you sure?’


    28. I wonder what rent she’ll want for it


    29. 'Mama, what rent do you want for this?' I said


    30. I had estimated the godown's rent as half of

    31. I had Mrs Stubbs here this morning asking if I knew of anywhere that the girl could rent in the village


    32. The girl’s a trained hairdresser and her mum has a job for her if she can only find accommodation in the village – and you know just how difficult that is! There wouldn’t be a problem with the rent as she would be eligible for assistance if her wages are too low


    33. jalfreezi was the object he was looking for, his parent’s council rent


    34. his parent’s rent book


    35. printed in the rent book, the police handed the kids over to a lady


    36. He owned a couple of properties which he used to rent out and it made sense for us to sell the house here and for her to move up there to live in one of the flats


    37. They moved out of the student house into a flat somewhere in town a year or so ago, splitting the rent 50:50, though Joanna is happy to admit that her parents pay her portion


    38. It says a lot that we none of us have asked how she's managing the rent on her own


    39. On Dad’s instructions, we’d sold the house and invested the money in the Trust Fund, then Mum had moved into one of the flats and we had let the other out on a long term tenancy, the idea being that the interest from the Trust Fund together with the rent on the second flat would give Mum some money to play with in addition to whatever she could earn


    40. what would be paid monthly which she would want to stash away? Rent of some sort? But what on?

    41. rent on six flats


    42. It would make sense putting the rent into a separate account just in case there were repairs needed to the property


    43. We share the building with a couple of small businesses who rent their offices – they are, to all intents and purposes, totally separate entities, Dilly being the only common point of contact


    44. She is officially on our staff, acting as receptionist to all of us, and also doing a bit of photocopying and coffee making for any visitors, her services being included in the rent for the offices as far as the other businesses are concerned


    45. As far as the occupants of the flats in Danvers House are concerned - and we prefer to call them tenants – they pay a low rent for their flats that is usually paid by Housing Benefit


    46. The income from rent is augmented by fund raising activities and, of course, various people send donations


    47. the young woman one of her flats at a very competitive rent


    48. His maps said they had a half mile to go to find a needleboat for rent, and they had to hike with their baggage to get there


    49. The rent means that he gets an exclusive between the hours of ten and twelve, which is more than enough time


    50. Everyone has to pay their rent, but only Shaun gets the early shift, which is when the kids are still flush














































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    Synonyms for "rend"

    pull rend rip rive strain stretch sprain twist disjoint

    "rend" definitions

    tear or be torn violently