Word: rend
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...number of people at the Vesper Service yesterday was unusually large. Mr. J. K. Ricketson, the tenor of the Hollis street church, assisted by the chapel choir rendered the following music: "Will Lay Me Down,; a tenor solo and chorus, by O. B. Brown; 'Ye People Rend Your Hearts," recitative and aria from "Elijah...
...production of plays by students is to be praised; as showing a movement in the right direction. Dramatic societies should not be scorned, however, they rend a passion to tatters. Education should join hands with elocution and thus repay to the theatre the inspiration which the theatre has long given to education. Elocution in its broadest sense applies to all those recreations of voice and body which arouse or exhibit the passions or any of our wide range of feelings. Without thorough training in these things, a man is not prepared to make the best use of his four years...
...could admit the canker insect of anxiety to rend my heart unalloyed if it were not for other ploughing inflictions which asset my mind about this Venie. Isaac tells me her neck and bust have been jollified by thousands; think of it, Mr. Brimstone, inflect how improper of that girl to be seen in such an informal, decolleti way! How lacking in maidenly preserve she must be! What a brass face the girl must have! The carmine glow profuses my hectic cheeks as I think of it; and then for Isaac not to be ashamed of such coyness! Really...