Resembling a sound of violent tearing as of something ripped apart or lightning splitting a tree.
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I hope the road to revulsion continues to separate rendering and rending.
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The first sign was the rending of the veil of the temple.
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But there was a rending, tearing noise of work going on inside.
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A rending, splintering sound made them all look back at the house.
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Those had been passionate and rending tears; these did not even flow.
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Behind the ragged lips were animals' teeth, made for rending and tearing.
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At that moment heart-rending cries came from the direction of the grating.
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With a heart-rending cry, Hortense sank to the ground in a swoon.
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The flames that issued from the rending globe set everything on fire.
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The day of parting came, and most bitter and heart-rending it was.
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The undulations became greater as they advanced, and the rending sounds continuous.
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Here we have the rending of corpses connected with change of form.
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A noise of rending and crashing came dully through the ponderous stone.
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With a screeching, rending noise, the rotten timbers gave way beneath her.
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Sometimes the memory of them would pierce him like some rending sorrow.
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Jealousy-bitterjealousy; that was what had been rending her heart, he knew.
