Asunder

Examples

• As she sat with the paper folded between her hands, the charred log fell asunder. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• They started asunder in the full consciousness of all that was before them. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• The bill broke the Liberal Party asunder; and a coalition government, the Unionist Government, replaced that of Mr. Gladstone. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Roderigo rent his chains asunder manfully, and Hugo died in agonies of remorse and arsenic, with a wild, Ha! Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• They widened and widened, thrusting you both asunder, one from the other. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• For here all seems fallen asunder, in wide-yawning dislocation. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It tells how they was stoned and sawn asunder, and wandered about in sheep-skins and goat-skins, and was destitute, afflicted, tormented. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• She felt her hands so strong, as if she could tear the world asunder with them. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• I wish he could have witnessed the horrible avidity with which Oliver tore the bits asunder with all the ferocity of famine. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• I want you to stand between Rosa Dartle and me, and keep us asunder. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• We were very much together, I need not say; but occasionally we were asunder for some hours at a time. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• He desired I would stand like a Colossus, with my legs as far asunder as I conveniently could. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• The free cities of medi?val Germany were continually torn asunder by petty civil wars. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Gerald was as if left on board of a ship that was going asunder beneath his feet, he was in charge of a vessel whose timbers were all coming apart. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• We have never been asunder from that time. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Darts of bright light shot asunder, darkness swept over the centre. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Now, Joe, examining this iron with a smith's eye, declared it to have been filed asunder some time ago. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• A bolt made two shingles; it was sawn asunder by hand, then split and shaved. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The two couples went asunder, Ursula clinging to Birkin's arm. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Where duty and inclination jumped together, it was not in Lily's nature to hold them asunder. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• And on the ground beside her, when Joe picked her up, was a convict's leg-iron which had been filed asunder. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• We must learn to part again, and to take our different ways so wide asunder. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• I am poor, I am penniless--should your irons wrench my limbs asunder, I could not gratify you! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• For if I had, and if the same spell had come upon me for my ruin, I know I should have broken that tie asunder as if it had been thread. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• These last words were shot out of him, as though the constraint which he was evidently setting upon himself had suddenly and utterly burst asunder. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Or pull asunder perhaps. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• And now comes death to snap us asunder! Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• It was not a difference of race or temperament, it was a difference of language and tradition that split these Frankish peoples asunder. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• What had been said between them, was it not enough to put them worlds asunder, to freeze them forever apart! D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Because they were never asunder. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.

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