Nature chose for a tool, not the earthquake or lightning to rend and split asunder, not the stormy torrent or eroding rain, but the tender snow-flowers noiselessly falling through unnumbered centuries.    From LearnThat.org.  [John Muir]

Being there helped me realise that I was kinda rent asunder from the happy nest I had there.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2005-10-01] Reference

Full many a shield and helmet/was there 'neath sword asunder rent.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nibelungenlied Translated into Rhymed English Verse in the Metre of the Original] Reference

You know when you use "asunder," something serious is a-going on!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources] Reference

Thou art my complement; we cannot long remain asunder.    From Wordnik.com.  [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference

He feared that he was about to burst asunder like Judas.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Riches of Bunyan] Reference

Deng had witnessed China torn asunder by the Cultural Revolution.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Philosopher And The Pragmatist] Reference

Leases and other pre-bankruptcy legal obligations are torn asunder.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Defense of Detroit] Reference

An embittered country was torn asunder by Civil War in the late 1930s.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Faces Of Spain] Reference

"Let us break their bonds asunder, and cast away their cords from us.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Riches of Bunyan] Reference

Let us break their bonds asunder: and let us cast away their yoke from us.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 21: Psalms The Challoner Revision] Reference

The United States stands on the precipice of splintering the world asunder.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mail Call: A Double Disaster?] Reference

As speedily as it was spliced asunder, tidal ripples suture incisions made.    From Wordnik.com.  [NATURAE] Reference

The Leviathan was last, so gargantuan I thought she would tear my staircase asunder.    From Wordnik.com.  [Women Making Love to Monsters] Reference

Ultimately, these are moot points because the two industries will never be torn asunder.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hollywood's Dying For Novel Ideas] Reference

It therefore falls asunder, with the liberated levity drawn into the process of dispersion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Man or Matter] Reference

And immediately as he had made an end of speaking, the earth broke asunder under their feet.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 04: Numbers The Challoner Revision] Reference

The seeds are commonly sown about two feet and a half asunder, and grow up like other plants.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1] Reference

It was really a family being rent asunder … There wasn't any of that in the minorities 'case.    From Wordnik.com.  [Black and Blue at the Times] Reference

And now I will break in pieces his rod with which he struck thy back, and I will burst thy bonds asunder.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 39: Nahum The Challoner Revision] Reference

Divided, there is little we can do -- for we dare not meet a powerful challenge at odds and split asunder.    From Wordnik.com.  [US Presidential Inaugural Addresses] Reference

After clearing the lands they commonly plant it in furrows made with a hoe, about eighteen inches asunder.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1] Reference

He hath decked it with silver and gold: he hath put it together with nails and hammers, that it may not fall asunder.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 28: Jeremias The Challoner Revision] Reference

In the case of the plant this discontinuity is achieved by the breaking asunder of the male and female growth-principles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Man or Matter] Reference

But in the midst of an era of so much promise, the country was ripped asunder from another direction -- imperial ambition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harvey Wasserman: To Honor Dr. King, Bring the Troops Home Now] Reference

And I took my rod that was called Beauty, and I cut it asunder to make void my covenant, which I had made with all people.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 43: Zacharias The Challoner Revision] Reference

They commonly made ridges with the hoe about five feet asunder, upon the top of which they planted the seed three inches deep.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1] Reference

But all would tear asunder in fall from grace that was so precipitous, it makes Brian Wilson's career look undramatic by comparison.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pink Floyd Co-Founder Syd Barrett Dies] Reference

And as they went on, walking and talking together, behold, a fiery chariot and fiery horses parted them both asunder: and Elias went up by.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 12: 4 Kings The Challoner Revision] Reference