be split asunder

"The girl by whose will the world was split asunder."

The trees here are dead, but there they have been split asunder by some terrible force.

"The great dome is being split asunder," he told his shocked followers.

When the pain cleared, she was split asunder, and so was the moon.

Doors had been split asunder, beaten down by the dead, in their efforts to wrest life from the living.

The island shook and was split asunder.

An opening in side of mountain leads into a chamber the floor of which is split asunder by a cleft.

The Void grew in power because the Sovereign Stone was split asunder."

"But I cannot rest," Riane protested, though her head felt as if it were splitting asunder.

The Whitestone had been split asunder.

Even Captain Duffy concedes that it would be impossible to place every pilot in a new position if Eastern is split asunder.

Her head ached as if it had been split asunder, and all that day she was held captive by the strange spell of her waking dream.

Had you put as much effort into your wife and children as you put into work, they might now be standing by your side instead of being split asunder.

Illness reached down into his soul like tendrils of affectlessness, searching like tree roots in a rock for cracks, flaws, at which the rock could be split asunder.

But places change, Nature takes her toll, earthquakes rumble and the land is split asunder, and treasures are buried deeper still where old markers fall or are simply torn down.

This column he slowly thrusts forward into the broad battle-front of Ukiukiu, and slowly and surely Ukiukiu, weakening fast, is split asunder.

There was an unearthly crackling noise, as if the air itself were being split asunder, and to my amazement a bolt of blue-white electrical discharge abruptly curled out and away from the shining globe.

Even during the years when the two kingdoms were split asunder, Soth, for that was the eunuch's name, had honoured this special tie to Taita, and had been his friend and confidant.

And she, in her summer bed, had imagined not the hard screaming agony of being split asunder, but the softer terror of the breeze in intimate pans that signaled the approach of the whirling tool.

Mr. Finckel, a son of Edwin Finckel, a cellist, teacher and composer, can appear solemn with his brown goatee, until he begins talking and his mien is split asunder by a boyish, toothy grin.

Meanwhile, the giant A.F.L.-C.I.O. was split asunder this summer when the Service Employees International Union, headed by Andy Stern, a West Orange native, and the Teamsters left the organization.

He was so huge that he terrified her, and though she had borne four children, she felt as though she was being split asunder as his blackness filled her, and then the terror passed to be replaced by a strange sense of sanctity.

Then blue coats began to break from among the russet, the fight rolled wildly back for a hundred paces, the dense throng was split asunder, and the Royal Guards came pouring through the rent, and swerved off to right and left through hedges and over ditches, stabbing and hacking at the fleeing horsemen.