Tearing

Examples

• I only kept them quiet by tearing his card to pieces under my shawl. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Then, a score of others ran into the midst of these, beating their breasts, tearing their hair, and screaming, Foulon alive! Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Slackbridge jumped up and stood beside him, gnashing and tearing. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Jem Spyers dashes out; and there he sees Chickweed, a-tearing down the street full cry. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• A very annoying feature until recently has been the losing of the lower film loop, due to poor patching of the film, tearing of the perforations in the films, etc. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• By good fortune he had been so well taught, that I was carried between his teeth without the least hurt, or even tearing my clothes. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• They stopped at Charlottesville and commenced tearing up the railroad back toward Lynchburg. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• He did not wait for them to join him, however, instead he wheeled his thoat and came tearing madly in our direction. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• Tearing it open I read: 'Meet me to-morrow hotel Raleigh Richmond. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• He took to biting the rosebuds now, and tearing them away from his teeth with a hand that trembled like an infirm old man's. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Why are you tearing about the streets,' said Mr. Gradgrind, 'in this improper manner? Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• We were again upon the melancholy road by which we had come, tearing up the miry sleet and thawing snow as if they were torn up by a waterwheel. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Perhaps there was something mechanical, now, in her intereSt. Perhaps also her interest was destructive, her analysing was a real tearing to pieces. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Bradley turned away his haggard face for a few moments, and then said, tearing up a tuft of grass: 'Damn him! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• There it remained in the darkness, the great pain, tearing him at times, and then being silent. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .

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