Word: rendingly
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...free from those vices as mortal man could be. . . I know that his crown will be filled with stars . . . His every thought was for his country and people and what did America give him in return for all his self sacrifice? She turned on him and tried to rend him, even of his honor . . . through her hatred of the greatest man and President America ever knew...
...Wids" because I got a bit suspicious about my knowledge of this course in social sophistry or whatever they call it that I'm taking. And the first one I met, was Art Knott who was looking for the same stuff I was. So we found out that Mr. Rend 'Em and Weep or something satisfying like that was awaiting just such intelligence's as ours, and hurried thence. And there we found the only other gentleman in the course the rest are professionals with the "A" and "B" disease--and so the three of us settled into three hours...
...class organizers and politicians, who sandwich fairly able academic work into the tiny crevices left between running their newspapers and student government boards, winning votes, signing petitions, leading cheers, etc. He is called the "flash," the "whiz," the "shark," the man who can, with little visible effort, rip and rend the more indigestible portions of the curriculum into tender shreds; the man who singles out tough courses for the sheer delight of picking high marks out of them; the man, the exceptional man, who would snatch at an honors course if only his university offered...
Unclean entered the wailing place, full synagog. They listened thunderstruck to his blasphemy. They growled. They arose to rend him. Leah, whose beloved life he had had to break and to whom he was "dead," cried them from defilement, cried their thumbs to their ears to defeat his sacrilege. After the fast she saw the face of her guilt a last time, calling her Yahweh's Avenger, by night to go to Eli with a knife and at dawn to the police station. Little Reuben was left to cry in the wilderness, to hate Christ and Yahweh alike...
...Princeton Theological Seminary has long been the despair of the liberal theologians and all the sons of restatement and reinterpretation, which, being interpreted, means evacuating the New Testament doctrines of their Christian meaning. They would rend the heavens with a shout if they thought that Princeton Theological Seminary shook in a single stone of its ancient foundations. This noble nursery of faith and piety and the other evangelical seminaries of the Presbyterian Church are the hope of the Church for tomorrow. If these fountains be poisoned, then woe to the Church...