Shouts rend the air; one shout, at which Grecian birds might drop dead.

They rend the air and deafen you with their shrill cries.

All the saloons and dance-houses are in full blast; shouts and maudlin yells rend the air.

They have a fine dramatic quality, unknown to the cheers which rend the air about us.

Let the organ thunder, while we sing our songs with glee and rend the air asunder.

Their voices, like distant thunder, rend the air,-

Bullets rend the air around us, and we hear a cry, "Some one wounded!"

The cries of suffocated women and trampled children, the curses of strong men, would rend the air.

As screams and squeals rend the air, anxiety about half-forgotten essays and answers will turn to relief for most students.

But let any one defy their taunts, break through and be brave and secure, they rend the air with shouts.

After he has landed and informed the assembly of his victory over the Turks, shouts of joy and exultation rend the air.

Lamentation will rend the air today, and not just in his native St Lucia in the Caribbean, but everywhere poetry is revered.

In a country where property is more equally divided than anywhere else, they rend the air with the shouting of agrarian doctrines.

There was no mistake, for at their approach did not a resounding cock-a-doodle-do-oo-oo rend the air like the sound of a trumpet?

At the count of zero an explosion would rend the air and a sulfurous cloud would be all that remained of my creation.

Will shortly rend the air;