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Meanings of tear to pieces in English

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Usage of tear to pieces in English
1
The interests frequently tear to pieces the engagements; and the passions trample upon both.
Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke
2
On the road she had Andrew to tear to pieces.
Evan Harrington — Volume 6
3
The massive head turning left and right, seeking something weaker to tear to pieces.
Mister Slaughter
4
It can also tear to pieces an enemy's camp that lies in the open field.
Life in a Thousand Worlds
5
The land already seemed to be his to tear to pieces, squeeze, and throw away.
Lord Jim
6
They drive straight through the Jungle, and what they meet they pull down and tear to pieces.
The Second Jungle Book
7
The fierce and brutal raiders would tear to pieces a Christian who had dared spill the blood of their leader.
Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar
8
Then he went to work to tear to pieces the old bed in there and make it over to suit himself.
Whitefoot the Wood Mouse
9
It was torn to pieces that night; my own was a ruin.
The Sleuth of St. James's Square
10
Torn to pieces, we believe, one night in a house near Moscow.
Peter Ruff and the Double Four
11
His servants found him this morning, torn to pieces in his bedchamber.
The great hunt
12
For night before last, it was pulled down and torn to pieces.
A Confederate Girl's Diary
13
You have saved my wife and child from being torn to pieces.
A Jacobite Exile / Being the Adventures of a Young Englishman in...
14
Oropesa, afraid of being torn to pieces, retired to his country seat.
The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume ...
15
Should it ever exceed it, the colossus will be torn to pieces.
Devourer
16
Fortunately no one was hurt except Theophilus, who was torn to pieces.
Julian
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