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Definition of Rends
1. rend [v] - See also: rend
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rends
Literary usage of Rends
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Iliad of Homer by Homer (1796)
"... thunder rends the clouded air, Who in the heav'n of heav'ns has fix'd thy
throne, Supreme of Gods! unbounded, and alone! ..."
2. The Poetical Works of John Dryden by John Dryden (1909)
"Her sister hears; and, furious with despair, She beats her breast, and rends her
yellow despair, The Sisters had not cut the topmost hair, And, ..."
3. The Æneid of Virgil by Virgil (1910)
"The dismal cry Of men in fierce fight, and of men who fall Beneath relentless
Mars, rends all the air. Then Venus, by her offspring's guiltless woe Sore ..."
4. The Dawn in Britain by Charles Montagu Doughty (1906)
"... rends, lo, with furious hands, his harness ; He gapes, with wildered front,
for living breath ! With lean uplifted looks, now stares distract; ..."
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