How To Use Tearing In A Sentence

The shorter girl snarled her frustration and lunged after him with her jackknife, tearing a horizontal gash in his right pant leg.
They have been tearing away at the rubble for a week now, and more than 10,000 tonnes has been removed, But it has hardly made a dent in the mountain.
Although the softest condition is obtained when the large globules of cementite are embedded in the ferrite, a smooth machined surface is difficult to obtain due to tearing.
The riders, known as scramblers, are illegally riding their motorbikes, quad bikes and scooters across Crane Park and are tearing up the ground in the process.
He listened intently, jabbed furiously three or four times at the transmitting key, then leapt to his feet, tearing his headphones off. THE LONELY SEA

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One of the league's best blocking fullbacks and an improving runner, Christian missed the final two games in 1998 and all of the playoffs after tearing the ACL and MCL in the same knee.
It seems that he is in a tearing hurry to take sole credit for the successes that Indian hockey achieved in the recent past.
The harsh winter winds were slicing past them and it felt like it was tearing their skin.
Liquids, whether waters or oils, which possess a great and intense acridity, act like heat in tearing asunder bodies and burning them after some time; yet to the touch they are not hot at first. The New Organon
In this spirit, topologists regard any two objects that can be deformed into each other without tearing to be one and the same thing - have a look at Plus article In space, do all roads lead home?
It isn't going to take a fighter, it's going to take someone that will get house and senators elected in Nov. Obama seems better equipt at that. 3 weeks ago both Obama and Hillary polled better than McCain, now McCain is in the lead, this is tearing down both candidates. Poll: Hillary Up By 18 Points In Pennsylvania Primary
The rest threw themselves on the man with sourball and were for tearing off his outer garments and forcing on his sweater, but Lyman by some occult means of his own got the boy aside. Stanford Stories Tales of a Young University
Some experts claim it's better to elect for a controlled cut, while others say tearing is preferable as the healing time's quicker.
There are similarities in the practices of both sects: initiation is by tearing out the hair, and the lifestyle is one of extreme austerity involving nakedness, penances, and ordeals.
Except for third-string center DJ Mbenga, out for the year after tearing a ligament in his right knee, everyone on the roster is available to play. ... USATODAY.com - Basketball - Dallas vs. L.A. Lakers
I can't watch pyrotechnic displays anymore without tearing up.
Jake collapsed into a heap in the grass under the willow and started bawling, grabbing a few tufts of crinkly brown grass and tearing them out by the roots.
Racial strife is tearing our country apart.
Misery of the most exquisite kind was tearing her heart in pieces, stabbing her throat with long, forklike pains. Rose O'Paradise
The other drags him by the helmet, tearing all the fastening, and he strikes from his head the ventail and the gleaming coif. Four Arthurian Romances
In ten minutes after the first concussion, and while the engines were still turning astern, the ship, as stated, struck again under the engine room, bilging the side several feet, and tearing open the bottom.
Anzheluo to revive her, tearing her clothes, will be in the spirits dumping her body, with hands desperately Guozhao, the exhaustion of a night time, he finally saved her life.
The colt, who was sidelined from racing for a year from September 2001 to this September after tearing a suspensory ligament in his left front leg, fractured the splint bone and chipped a piece of the sesamsoid bone in the same leg.
Soon her eyes were tearing and Kyle had joined in, laughing too.
Then all these scruffy layabouts who had nothing better to do with their time than try to prevent law-abiding country folk from tearing foxes apart could be arrested and prosecuted.
In a flash I realised that my propeller was tearing great chunks out of his cockpit and he was quite literally trapped.
The more common of these include spraining or tearing one or more ligaments, tearing the meniscus or straining a tendon or muscle.
In the Crawford Market I had watched the florists at work tearing the blossoms from a kind of frangipani known as the Temple Roving East and Roving West
Both the men now gazed in the direction from which they expected the girls to appear, when lo! shouting, laughing, and tearing obstreperously along, the six beauteous and dutiful damsels came racing towards them. Ralph Rashleigh
But one of its hinges had gone, and the other hinge was tearing too. Times, Sunday Times
They are caused by a tearing of the inner part of the placenta called the amnion, which produces the fiber-like bands that may trap the baby's extremities such as the arms, legs, fingers or toes. Emaxhealth
The Gatling guns all fired simultaneously, tearing through the rear of the vehicle and into the trunk.
The operation was carried out as strong winds battered Scotland, tearing a cargo ship from its anchorage in the Orkney islands.
Between tearing down walls and digging up floors I was always wrecked.
It felt like a tornado of a thousand emotions was tearing away at my insides.
Tearing my eyes away from this vision of male pulchritude, I notice yet another Gable.
Previous attempts by other companies required tearing up supermarket floors to install the ads, leaving scuff marks on the concept.
She'll be tearing through amelia bedelia books in no time I'm sure (do they still have them?). Phonetic Awareness
I could not move my hand for fear of tearing the minute, fragile aneurysm off the middle cerebral artery and causing a catastrophic haemorrhage. Times, Sunday Times
Mostly I hate jet skis, those fast and noisy personal watercraft often driven by obnoxious kids whose idea of a good time is harassing fishermen or generally tearing up a quiet lake. Uncategorized Blog Posts
I looked up to find Trischen staring at me, his eyes tearing from the laughter he was futilely trying to keeping in.
They are tearing up the street to repair a sewer.
A great tearing sound and the rocket section at the rear of the spacecraft pulled away.
As I watch them writhe in simulated pain, a young punk comes along and grabs some cardboard from the ground and starts tearing it into tiny pieces.
While the drum beat slowly, a havildar and two naiks went along the ranks of the prisoners, tearing the buttons off the uniform coats; they had been half cut off before-hand, to make the tearing easy, and soon in front of the long grey line there were little scattered piles of buttons, gleaming dully in the sultry light; the grey coats hung loose, like sacks, each with a dull black face above it. Fiancée
The postwar vogue for tearing down buildings virtually destroyed the city's architecture.
In the Philippines, a powerful blast from a suspected bomb ripped through a bus in Manila's financial district, tearing a huge hole in the vehicle and spraying shr apnel at the passengers. World Watch
I was late for the match and in a tearing hurry.
We stood on a cliff at the southern tip of Deer Island, staring down at the rips, eddies, and whirlpools tearing through the water below.
At least this show isn't tearing through its war with unseemly haste. Times, Sunday Times
Missy's view started to get blurry; she realized her eyes were tearing up.
Wherein we learn tearing away outer trappings of the Light merely unclothes the Light ... making the Light shine even further and all the more, even though some try to pit us and others against each other to see who gets the biggest piece of what does not matter: Jesus is stripped of his clothing and soldiers gamble for his blood-soaked garments. National Catholic Reporter
The other 29 percent of the smoke is the tearing agent, chloroacetophenone, which has been around for nearly a century and causes severe irritation of the mucous membranes. Ars Technica
HARVEY: Well, as a matter of fact, I can remember in the 1930s, when the United Nations was called the League of Nations until it ignored the intrusion of Japan into Manchuria and China, until it ignored the intrusion of Italy into Ethiopia, until it failed to recognize Hitler for what he was, publicly tearing up the Versailles Treaty. CNN Transcript Mar 1, 2009
If they applied extra thrust it could have tipped the plane out of control, tearing it apart in the turbulence. Times, Sunday Times
Her virtual car lurches forward, overtaking a rival competitor tearing around the Alpine race track.
The pressure squeezes and pulls at my chest so hard, so hard so very hard, it is like you can feel the muscle fibers tearing and popping as my heart races and slows erratically. Admit-it Diary Entry
Indeed, outside the starboard porthole I saw a large fish, apparently captive, violently trying to disengage itself and in the process tearing some of the skin and flesh of its back.
If a pipe breaks, the 500 degree water would blow off as steam, tearing off plant insulation and coatings.
It has channelised the collective energies of a group of young people into taking a firm stand against the dark forces tearing our social fabric apart.
They slew the gentle musician, tearing him limb from limb, and flung the severed head into the swift river Hebrus.
kindbegger's diary kindbegger's Diaryland Diary if you keep tearing out the trees it'll look wacky what's up, meg and becca! just goin 'to the truman, just visitin' you all. nice place. nice curtains. like what you've done with the place. wud up! signing off! orem meg and ashleigh brummer If you keep tearing out the trees it'll look wacky
They can be seen vigorously tearing twigs from the trees. Times, Sunday Times
My eyes were tearing and my mouth was full of little particles.
The sound of immense boulders tearing through stone was thunderous and struck a powerful blow to the men's morale.
A man travelling on a cross-country bus trip was struck by the spactacle of a fellow traveler tearing a magazine into small pieces and scattering them from the window. Cheney takes swipe at Obama over prosecutor
Simply making steel stronger does not necessarily guarantee freedom from laminar tearing.
Her Mum gave her a rocket for tearing her new jeans.
Another jagged block had hooked an engine, tearing it from the wing, rupturing the wing's fuel tank and spinning the entire plane around.
You can just hear, through the crash, the shriek of a third and fourth shell as they come tearing down the vault of heaven -- _crash -- crash_. Letters from France
The female usually feeds the chicks by tearing the food into bite-sized pieces.
These expressions are objectionable, inasmuch as they hint that in a mature organism, with metabolism rather stable, tearing down, or katabolism, could go on faster than building up, or anabolism, or that one of two phases of the same process might go on faster than the other. Taboo and Genetics A Study of the Biological, Sociological and Psychological Foundation of the Family
The soldiers were tearing across the bridge.
The tremendous speed with which they abandoned all their previous standpoints is a measure of the depth and extent of the explosive contradictions tearing society apart.
Now add the salmon, removing the skin and tearing the fish into bite-sized pieces or shreddy bits, as you wish. The Sun
When pruning small branches with hand pruners, make sure the tools are sharp enough to cut the branches cleanly without tearing.
They slew the gentle musician, tearing him limb from limb, and flung the severed head into the swift river Hebrus.
When we were about halfway there, I saw five dirtbikes, the van, and the truck, the flatbed piled with people, come tearing out of the garage.
Ugh, you brutes!" exclaimed Quashy, referring to a number of urubu vultures which stood on the shells, all more or less gorged, some still tearing sleepily at the meat, others standing in apoplectic apathy, quite unable to fly. The Rover of the Andes A Tale of Adventure on South America
The storm shakes me, like the scare that shook me up a year ago,(Sentencedict) tearing me from the commonplace.
Mrs. Frost was ever on the alert lest any of her smaller children should get in the way of these huge rubber-tyred vehicles tearing along at reckless speed, -- and old Josey Letherbarrow resolutely refused to go outside his garden gate except on Sundays. God's Good Man
By the way, should "tearing down the viaduct" really be described as part of "McGinn's preferred option" -- replacing the current viaduct is agreed upon by virtually everyone (or was there a retrofit option in this poll?). PubliQuestion: Few Voters Support McGinn’s Surface/Transit Option « PubliCola
Don't visit this venue if you are in a tearing hurry.
The original plans, necessarily produced in a tearing hurry, had to be modified.
And now we have the unlikely and not altogether pretty sight of Bob Dole tearing up in public like a road-company Pagliacci.
She now had both arms crossed in front of her face to shield her eyes from the tearing winds.
Her arms were scraped and her himation had torn off and her peplos was tearing.
She flounced a few inches away, then began tearing strips off the sheet.
I guess I'll be wanted," the pawnbroker observed, as he jerked open his shirt, tearing out the four buttons in his impetuousness and showing a Colt's .44 automatic, strapped in its holster against the bare skin of his side under his left arm, the butt of the weapon most readily accessible to any hasty dip of his right hand. CHAPTER XV
Meanwhile, the witnesses of the rural wedding had all skedaddled -- to borrow a Greek word -- into the woods, in dire confusion, tearing dresses, pulling down 'back hair,' hitching hoop skirts, and tumbling over blackberry vines -- but each intent on increasing the distance from the mad cow. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
To disclose the reasons of hot-tearing of camshaft produced by bottom gating system and vertical casting process, the temperature-field of the camshaft under the above technique conditions was tested.
By 1974 it had produced a precipitous decline in self-confidence and was tearing the country apart. Times, Sunday Times
Look at her tearing through the orchard with her hair streaming. Anne of Green Gables
Thus was launched the great Dot War that is tearing the nation asunder. Times, Sunday Times
Unafraid and uncaring of what her lord thought of her while eating, she began tearing the venison with her hands.
The jali normally worked by tearing apart the warp and weft threads of the cloth and by preparing minute button hole stitches.
The effects of entropion range from irritation to tearing to loss of vision from scarring.
Eight oclock came, and the watch went below, and, for the whole of the first hour, the ship was tearing on, with studding-sails out, alow and aloft, and the night as dark as a pocket.
It's all very well to say that we must ditch the economic model that measures things in growth, but last time a beardy-weirdy type suggested tearing up the global economic system and starting all over again, it didn't turn out terribly well. Christina Patterson: What I Learnt from Prince Charles
He looks for fine cracks under a microscope and tests the amount of pressure it can withstand before tearing. Smithsonian Mag
She had just waved her off on to the No 66 to Maynooth and was standing against the wall of the Clarence Hotel when the bus came tearing along the pavement.
Nobody was there but a touzy, ragged, halflins callant of thirteen, (for I speired his age,) with a desperate dirty face, and long carroty hair, tearing a speldrin with his teeth, which looked long and sharp enough, and throwing the skin and lugs into the fire. The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith
In a fit of desperation, he faced round upon Bruin and lifted his cane; at the sight of which the instinct of discipline prevailed, and the animal, instead of tearing him to pieces, rose up upon his hind-legs and instantly began to shuffle a saraband. The Bride of Lammermoor
For instance, the animal is coming after you with the idea of tearing your head off.
Henry III, though undeniably pious, could also be sharp-tongued and quick-tempered - he is recorded as tearing up the clothes of one of his court jesters, and throwing another into the Thames.
Instead of combing his luscious locks, the suave Italian was undoubtedly tearing some of them out on deadline night. The Sun
She bit on her lip, an exquisite agony tearing her apart.
The track ran from point of entry in the upper-right back, going upward and slightly leftward, through the upper right lung and tearing open the right sub-clavian artery before exiting just to the right of midline of his chest.
All told, the cradle of civilization has been tearing asunder for some 30 million years.
Her breathing was faster now, and her eyes were tearing up.
She didn't recognize the return address but turned it over, inspecting it carefully before tearing the paper off the plain box.
I always liked to plunker with stuff: tearing up clocks and putting them back together. Oral History Interview with Johnnie Jones, August 27, 1976. Interview H-0273. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
By 1974 it had produced a precipitous decline in self-confidence and was tearing the country apart. Times, Sunday Times
With shot and ball tearing his topsails and splintering the white oak planks and the tall pine masts, the captain of the beleaguered vessel had no choice by raising the white flag.
A few were tearing up after the obviously empassioned speech by main organizer Samar Hajj - who Cohen insinuates is a terrorist. Sharmine Narwani: The Day US Jewish Groups Went Too Far With the Word "Terrorist"
But it involved tearing down people's houses and often destroying their means of making, preparing and storing food. The English Civil War: A People's History
He fell backward, was dragged along the pavement tearing at his hands like shark teeth.
Like vampires, they had sharp teeth of all canines, meant for ripping and tearing, but unlike the vampires, they had two fangs that curved down over their lower lips.
Other refinements (rarely administered) were the tearing of the flesh of the condemned with red-hot pincers, the cutting off of hands, and the cutting out of tongues.
Work carefully to avoid slitting the screen and tearing it.
Desperately, the pilot fought with the controls as the machine careered across the ruts and hollows, the rubber tearing off in shreds from the burst tire. 2008 December « Official Harry Harrison News Blog
When the food did arrive, Glenn ate with a healthy appetite, tearing into the meat and gulping his ale without any thought of what it must taste like.
At the age of 6 or 7 I'd say I started the music, my mother had one of those little melodions and we finished up tearing that to pieces but we learnt to play the music on it.
Two textbooks contained instances involving the cutting or tearing of paper that illustrated tessellations or three-dimensional figures.
Maryland, led by the Mayor of Baltimore, began tearing up rails, burning bridges, and cutting the wires, the Union Government found itself enisled in a hostile sea. Captains of the Civil War; a chronicle of the blue and the gray
Benjamin B. DeVan has taught religion, philosophy, and African American literature at North Carolina Central University, Peace College, and a January term mini-course at MIT titled, "Religion: Bringing the World Together, or Tearing the World Apart? Ben DeVan: Evangelicals And Muslims Loving God, Each Other, And The World Together?
Diana fell badly on the ski slopes, tearing all the tendons in her left ankle.
All I remembered was the gun jumping in my hand and the feeling of ripping, tearing pain.
Surely tearing up the Pope's picture was meant as a symbolic gesture, not a personal affront.
A construction company tearing into unsurveyed land may even destroy unrecognized ancient cities with their bulldozers.
Auntie's piety was not of the niggerish kind, even Zoe, "The Octoroon," or any other woman or man in whose veins courses the blood of Ham four times diluted, knows that I mean it was not that glory-hallelujah variety of cunning or delusion, compounded of laziness and catalepsy, which is popular among the shouting, shirt-tearing sects of plantation darkies, who "git relijin" and fits twelve times a year. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866
Adrianna felt the ropes rubbing against her delicate skin, tearing and burning.
Tearing apart dead animals for the spawn to ingest is a popular tradition during the holidays. Dark Matter Can Enlighten Minds
Gerrard returned to Merseyside yesterday, where it is claimed a scan revealed that there was some minor tearing in his adductor muscle - an injury usually taking at least seven days to fully heal.
Tearing a piece from a large lump of kneaded dough on the metal table, the master baker swiftly rolled it out into a long, tube-like form.
Sometimes for days on end you find yourself crying in the middle of a cab ride, or on the subway, or tearing up when your young son has made you laugh by putting on your high-heeled shoes and walking across the living room floor. History of a Suicide
But he was foredoomed, and he went down with the she-wolf tearing savagely at his throat, and with other teeth fixed everywhere upon him, devouring him alive, before ever his last struggles ceased or his last damage had been wrought. The Battle of the Fangs
The sacred edifice, completely in their hands, was soon laid waste; they broke down the altars, destroyed the monuments, and -- much will the bibliophile deplore it -- set fire to their immense library "_ingens bibliotheca_," maliciously tearing into pieces all their valuable and numerous charters, evidences, and writings. Bibliomania in the Middle Ages
‘This is probably the last time I will ever see you,’ he said, eyes tearing up.
Video footage apparently shows him tearing down displays and hurling phones and keyboards around and setting off a fire extinguisher. The Sun
A ship in ballast has high sides, presenting more surface to the tearing wind than the biggest square-rigger. Times, Sunday Times
Sintim says "these guys" because he's spent the season on injured reserve after tearing both an anterior cruciate ligament and patellar tendon in the Giants final pre-season game. That First Meeting? Ignore It
By 1974 it had produced a precipitous decline in self-confidence and was tearing the country apart. Times, Sunday Times
He cringed to hear it—its hull grinding the calices of finger corals and the tiny tubes of pipe organ corals, tearing the flower and fern shapes of soft corals, and damaging shells too: punching holes in olives and murexes and spiny whelks, in Hydatina physis and Turris babylonia. The Shell Collector : Stories
Theorton hissed before tearing at his attacker's throat and destroying his jugular.
Look at her tearing through the orchard with her hair streaming. Anne of Green Gables
He began tearing out the ornithogalum and tossing its remains onto the lawn. In the Presence of the Enemy
I'm in a dreadful / tearing rush ( ie hurry ) so I can't stop.
The force of the shaking had caused tearing and bleeding around the brain. Times, Sunday Times
He missed four games last season after tearing his posterior cruciate ligament, but he is completely healed.
How, while he was engaged in battle, didst thou, O tiger among men, strike off his head in the very sight of all his friends like a tiger tearing off the head of a ruru deer? The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12
With an almighty boom, the laser detonates, tearing a huge chunk of the warship's hull away as it goes.
Now it is no more than a pathetic and abjectly partisan rag, not even worthy of tearing up and hanging in the outside dunny.
He had not even climbed far into sensual decadence, a different mountain entirely, with play for the playboy tearing his crepe paper heart the inwardly lachrymose and outwardly debonair way that it did, with these bouts of sensing a woman's genitalia as vapid holes being banged as empty drums from inside by a man's stick; these conclusions that sex was just a bored erumpent man banging on any tin trash can in reach for a bit of sound and vibration, and brief moments of total, pellucid understanding called enlightenment as to the absolute absurdity of an instrument of urination being used for intimacy. An Apostate: Nawin of Thais
While the tabby slumped down to mew her pain the tom rampaged among the females and the other nestlings, tearing throats, breaking knees and elbows, and tossing the smaller ones against the closet wall.
Most women experience discomfort and bleeding the first time they have sexual intercourse due to the stretching or tearing of their hymen.
But she is very sly and manipulative and the situation is tearing us apart. The Sun
After tearing apart foot with a chitinous tongue called the radula, their food travels down the gullet. CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
I would not be tearing down the mountain bike park swathed in padding like a football player. Margie Goldsmith: Grouse Grind And Other Adventures In B.C.
Otherwise they start around nine or nine thirty, when I'm woken up by the kids that I live with tearing around the house and shouting.
On days like today, sipping peppermint tea, watching from a cafe window as everyone else seems to be in such in a tearing hurry, Kelly himself would probably agree with that.
Simply making steel stronger does not necessarily guarantee freedom from laminar tearing.
But how many of us are wasting out lives tearing strip bandages when what the Boss really needs are sheets?
They noted that some mothers schedule Caesarean deliveries before their due date to avoid muscle tearing or stretch marks, or to better suit their schedules or those of their doctors.
There was a sickening sound of tearing metal.
At what a tearing pace he had driven up that road, through the yellow evening sunlight, the shadows flapping irksomely into his eyes as each wayside object rushed past between him and the west! Wessex Tales
Marisa and Helaina fell to the ground, eyes tearing… silently laughing-ya know when you laugh so hard nothing comes out?
His term commenced on New Year's Day 2003, in a prolonged cold snap for the league's 72 clubs, who were still tearing into each other, and themselves apart, after ITV Digital's calamitous collapse. Football news, match reports and fixtures | guardian.co.uk
He nickered eagerly as she approached with the filled basket, and in the next instant he was tearing into the mound, his thick black-and-silver mane clouding his face. Raven Speak
Then you go back to work and suddenly the day is so dense with activity you feel as if you've done three or four days' worth of mindless tearing around in a few hours.
The lance punched through the straining blue, tearing vast holes in it as the vessel yawed from side to side.
He looks for fine cracks under a microscope and tests the amount of pressure it can withstand before tearing. Smithsonian Mag
Therefore we could take the literal word “cheating” from the lyrics and throw this into a scene in which a protagonist finds out his or her lover has been unfaithful and is in the process of storming out of a room, tearing things from the walls and running into the night outside; surviving, albeit chaotically, a violent break-up of a doomed relationship. Top 10 Songs That Should Be Used in a Movie » Scene-Stealers
Lexie bit her lip, eyes tearing up, trying not to scream from the pain.
She followed the noise to find two medium-sized dogs tugging and tearing at either end of a chew toy.
Her Mum gave her a rocket for tearing her new jeans.
They're tearing down these old houses to build a new office block.
I was late for the match and in a tearing hurry.
They're tearing down these old houses to build a new office block.
The British colonies, meanwhile flew the British flag which eventually replaced the fleurs-de-lis when France ceded its colonies to Britain as part of its settlement in the Treaty of Utrecht (any historians may be tearing their hair out over my foreshortened version of Canadian history … sorry … trying to summarise not write a thesis!). A brief history of the Canadian flag. « Mudpuddle
Further, it is a key passage for understanding the diremption - meaning the tearing apart, or violent separation from all former historical notions of the human condition so characteristic of modern existence - at the foundation of Hegel's enterprise: Latest Articles
The sharp buzz of the miter saw filled the backyard soon after, its noise gearing up to a tearing crescendo before tapering off to a low whine and then starting up again. O' Bending Light
My boss is tearing his hair out about the delay in the schedule.
He released her arm and fell to the ground, eyes tearing up in pain.
After tearing apart food with a chitinous tongue called the radula, their food travels down the gullet. CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
And Shibli Bagarag followed her, clutching at the trailers and tearing them with him, letting loose a torrent of stones and earth, till on a sudden they stood together above a greenswarded basin of the rock opening to the sea; and in the middle of the basin, lo! in stature like a maiden of the mountains, and one that droopeth her head pensively thinking of her absent lover, the Enchanted Lily. The Shaving of Shagpat; an Arabian entertainment — Complete
Protesters set fires at points outside the fence, tearing it down in at least one place.
A seaman at my elbow screamed and stood up, tearing at a sumpitan dart in his arm; as I dived for the cover of the rail another stood quivering in a cable a foot from my face; Brooke leaned over, grinning, snapped it off, tossed it away, and then did an unbelievable thing. Flashman's Lady
Fingers of steel were clawing at the sleeve of her right arm, tearing the material away. THE RHYTHM SECTION
'This then was the noise I heard,' I said; 'the rumbling was the falling of the earth; the shriek was the tearing down of trees.' Aylwin
Then the cancer struck and quickly began tearing through his body.
This whole thing is tearing us apart because we cannot get to see our son every day.
Dilfer will be lost for 4-8 weeks after tearing the medial collateral ligament in his right knee.
Things are tearing apart all over the places, bloody havoc is being committed, the planet's coming apart at the seams ... and this inspires hair-tearing and chest-beating and rending of garments across the land? And now it's no more Open Source Boobs, it's the Miley Cyrus In A Bedsheet Show!
In a flash I realised that my propeller was tearing great chunks out of his cockpit and he was quite literally trapped.
And upon tearing her world asunder in a moment, the forces leave her to go be insane somewhere else, and she doesn't even know what the fuck. points out how there is this 'interstice' between what we consider real-life and what is urban mythology. Anime Nano!
Both of the treads and several wheels couldn't take the sudden acceleration, tearing away noisily and flying off on their own short trajectories.
Campaigners today demanded action to stop off-road motorcyclists tearing through a field - before someone is killed.
Already there have been noisy motorbikes tearing along the path (photographs available), but Mr Neale lives well away and so is not exposed to the noise.
His eyes were tearing, and she could see a wrecked, distressed look in them and could tell he wanted nothing more to do with this.

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