For a moment he was conscious of nothing but the sickening pressure of the blood that seemed as if it would tear his breast asunder; then it rushed back, tingling and burning through all his body, and he looked up.
She eluded the grasp of the savage, and reckless of her own safety, threw herself on the bosom of Alice, striving with convulsed and ill-directed fingers, to tear asunder the twigs which confined the person of her sister.
She must have shut herself up in a room in the country to write, and been torn asunder by bitterness and scruples perhaps, though her husband was of the kindest, and their married life perfection.
'Because those two were one. Because they were never asunder. Because, up to this time, he seemed to dote upon her, ' said Childers, taking a step or two to look into the empty trunk.
Released in 1991 but set in 1995, T2 sees Sarah locked up in a psych ward… because she can't stop talking about robots coming from the future to tear our lives asunder.
But it was, perhaps, proof of the agency of other than spiritual fingers, that, after a few touches, the chords seemed to snap asunder with their own vibrations, and the music ceased.