The thick clouds had ripped asunder, and it was afire with light, as if it were a moonbeam.

In this remote area where laws barring gambling, prostitution and alcohol were largely ignored, the community fabric was ripped asunder in 1924 by a mining explosion that killed 172 men.

It was certain that a region and people he had grown to love had been ripped asunder.

She felt ripped asunder, as if she had been eviscerated, a surgeon's cruel scalpel excising in an instant what had been part of her since birth.

He felt at his legs, bare bleeding skin where his trousers had been ripped and torn asunder.

He would have preferred that all of them be killed by his infantry, but this was difficult to achieve with bodies ripped asunder by high explosives.

The killing went on until she thought she could endure no more, and she feared her own mind would be ripped asunder by the onslaught of such intense emotions.

I mean you take a country like Colombia, and I am convinced that President Barco wants to cooperate, but his country has been ripped asunder by the drug cartels.

Teilani held on to Kirk's chair as the bridge bucked and a new sound rarely heard on a starship thundered through the bulkheads--the scream of air being ripped asunder as the ship descended through atmosphere.

She was afraid because suddenly her world, her universe, had been ripped asunder, as her lord had ripped open the sigil on her skin.