"Asunder" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... discreetly taken their leave, not to interrupt by their presence the final embraces of the family, the ties of which, after so many long years of labor and hardship, were for the first time to be broken asunder. ...
— Willis the Pilot • Paul Adrien
... agnihotra-sacrifice; at that time the gods arrive. Therefore (the two dogs of Yama) Cy[a]ma and Cabala (the dark and the spotted) tear to pieces the agnihotra of him that sacrifices otherwise. Cabala is the day; Cy[a]ma is the night. He who sacrifices in the night, his agnihotra Cy[a]ma tears asunder; he who sacrifices in broad daylight, his agnihotra Cabala tears asunder." Even more drily the two dogs of Yama are correlated with the time-markers of heaven in a passage of the T[a]ittir[i]ya-Veda (v. 7. 19); here sundry parts of the sacrificial ...
— Cerberus, The Dog of Hades - The History of an Idea • Maurice Bloomfield
... flew her words, When the bridge reft asunder, The horseman was crossing, 'Mid lightning and thunder, And loud was the yell, As he plunged in the billow, The maid knew it well, As she sprang ...
— The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. - The Songs of Scotland of the past half century • Various
... a third hypothesis, which is maintained by another very distinguished chemist, Liebig, which denies either of the other two, and which declares that the particles of the sugar are, as it were, shaken asunder by the forces at work in the yeast plant. Now I am not going to take you into these refinements of chemical theory, I cannot for a moment pretend to do so, but I may put the case before you by an analogy. Suppose you compare the sugar to a card house, and ...
— Yeast • Thomas H. Huxley
... moment as a Pythoness Stands on her tripod, agonized, and full Of inspiration gathered from distress, When all the heart-strings like wild horses pull The heart asunder;—then, as more or less Their speed abated or their strength grew dull, She sunk down on her seat by slow degrees, And bowed her throbbing head ...
— The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 6 • Lord Byron
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