Rend

Examples

• The prisoners even sometimes turn upon them and rend them. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• All closely imprisoned forces rend and destroy. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• If I tear, if I rend the slight prison, my outrage will only let the captive loose. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Leaping and clawing, they mowed down the warriors with their powerful paws, turning for an instant to rend their victims with frightful fangs. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• What madness drives thee, queen, to rend thine hair? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Rend not from me what long affection entwines with my whole nature. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• And Legree clenched his fist, and shook it, as if he had something in his hands that he could rend in pieces. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Two choice regiments, recently arrived from Lombardy, led the onset, rending the air with their shouts and confident of an easy victory. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• For some minutes amongst the wood and leafage a rending and heaving went on. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• To look for your sunny welcome that has warmed me into life, and to be received in your frozen manner, is heart-rending. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Before him lay the deep waters of the little lake, behind him certain death; a cruel death beneath tearing claws and rending fangs. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Jane, be still; don't struggle so, like a wild frantic bird that is rending its own plumage in its desperation. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• The other dived down the hole, and I heard the sound of rending cloth as Jones clutched at his skirts. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• The Rabbi listened with interest, and testified his sympathy after the fashion of his people, rending his clothes, and saying, Ah, my daughter! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• He rends defenseless women and little children in his lair, but how recently has one of you seen him fight with men? Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• Before calamity she is a tigress; she rends her woes, shivers them in convulsed abhorrence. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• I could have torn him limb from limb, as the lion rends the antelope. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• She had been all sweetness and kindness, always thankful, always gentle, even when Mrs. Clapp lost her own temper and pressed for the rent. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Barren timber for building is of great value in a populous and well-cultivated country, and the land which produces it affords a considerable rent. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• He is apt to denominate, however, his whole gain, profit, and thus confounds rent with profit, at least in common language. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The rent of land not only varies with its fertility, whatever be its produce, but with its situation, whatever be its fertility. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Those other parts of the produce of land, however, which afterwards afford rent, do not afford it always. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Rent, even where coals afford one, has generally a smaller share in their price than in that of most other parts of the rude produce of land. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• There was an execution put into our house, for rent. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.

Editor: Sasha