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Sentences starting with torn

Torn with pity, I saw them reeling through the water, now grasping trees and bushes to try to keep their feet, the strongest breaking the way ahead and supporting the weak between them. [9]
Torn by deep and conflicting feelings she threw back her head, brushed her hair off her face, and cried: "Let me go now; I can bear it no longer! [10]
Torn down poor! [9]

Sentences ending with torn

He wore the uniform of a Union sergeant,--dusty and splotched and torn. [9]
I preferred to think of it as a trip.... A vision of freedom thrilled me, and yet I was wracked and torn. [9]
He was a sorry sight indeed, unshaven, unkempt, dark circles under his eyes, clothes torn. [9]
But, as he did so, he saw a newspaper from which the wrapper was partly torn. [11]

Short sentences using torn

Some had been torn off. [9]
They have torn my body. [2]
I have torn it up. [11]

Sentences containing torn two or more times

His fabric of lies would be torn down; he would be tried and hanged on the Mont es Pendus, or even be torn to pieces by this crowd. [11]

More example sentences with the word torn in them

Come, vagrant, outcast, wretch forlorn In leather jerkin stained and torn, Whose talk has filled my idle hour And made me half forget the shower, I'll do at least as much for you, Your coat I'll patch, your gilt renew, Read you,--perhaps,--some other time. [6]
How gladly he would have wept aloud and torn his father's letter! [10]
He wore a woman's loose gown of frieze, blue trousers, and large torn Hessian boots. [2]
The physician noticed, with warm sympathy, how deeply this mysterious expectation had influenced her excitable nature, ever torn by varying emotions, and the excellent man was ready to aid her as a friend and intercessor. [10]
She felt that with the death of this youth--so gifted, and so dear to her--a corner-stone had been torn from the paternal house. [10]
F. No, he will not say so now, because his mouth, I trust, is hushed in death, and his body stretched to the four winds of heaven, to be torn to pieces by carnivorous birds. [5]
A toadstool--that vegetable which springs to full growth in a single night--had torn loose and lifted a matted mass of pine needles and dirt of twice its own bulk into the air, and supported it there, like a column supporting a shed. [5]
Every trench dug where the paving was torn up had its object, and each heap of stones its particular design. [10]
We camped there, where the loam was trampled and torn by countless herds of bison, and had only parched corn and the remains of a buffalo steak for supper, as the meal was mouldy from its wetting, and running low. [9]
Why is it when something happens like--like this, that we should suddenly be torn with doubts about him, when we have lived the best part of our lives without so much as thinking of him? [9]
The old ones, wet, discoloured, and torn, were stripped off, and thick, woollen ones substituted. [9]
Their naked feet were torn, and none walked without a limp. [5]
Yes, here she was, stranded with that deep injustice of hers torturing her poor torn heart. [5]
The green turf was torn and mangled, the horses reeked with sweat and foam, but overhead the soaring skylark sang, as it were, to express the joyance of the day. [11]
His first impulse was to have Dicky seized and cast to the crowd, to be torn to pieces. [11]
Not a sound was to be heard but the long-drawn howling of the wind, and now and then the flap of a strip of cloth torn from the velarium by the gale. [10]
However, the rebuilding was put in hand, and, of course, the business had to be wound up and the shop closed before the old front was torn down. [10]
Only one foot was firm on the ground; the other-with its thin sandal all torn by the sharp stones--was stretched out over the abyss, ready for the next fatal step. [10]
All, except the very last one, were in the same hand, and they seemed to have formed a single book before they were torn asunder. [10]
I have torn up some of it, but still have 15,000 words that Mrs. Clemens approves of, and that I like. [5]
During this conversation two men had been busily occupied, in front of the paraschites' hut, in driving piles into the earth, and stretching a torn linen cloth upon them. [10]
The storm had tossed and torn her garment and tumbled all her thick, white hair, so that locks of it fell over her face. [10]
The monks had torn the desecrated block from the niche in the Serapeum, hauled it through the courts on to the steps, and were now taking it to the arena where it was to be burnt. [10]
They had already torn off his mantle and discovered beneath its folds the sharp-edged butcher's knife which plainly betrayed his intentions. [10]
Little infants were torn in pieces. [5]
We saw Emily torn from the midst of us when our hearts clung to her with intense attachment. [14]
Petya's death had torn from her half her life. [2]
Now, take this torn coat off me, and help me to undress. [10]
Her heart is torn between sorrow for her lost relations, and joy at being united again to her love. [10]
I hesitated, sadly torn between duty and inclination. [9]
But to be torn away from his occupations by which he was daily laying aside a little for himself and Fiammetta, and to leave her for three years,--that seemed dreadful to him. [4]
Barine had been torn at midnight from her peaceful home and her wounded lover's bedside. [10]
The fantastic clouds, torn and streaming, hurried up from the south in haste as if to a witch's rendezvous, hiding and disclosing the great summit in their flight. [4]
Her dress was torn and blood-stained, her grey hair had come loose from the ribbands and crescent that should have confined it; the worthy matron had become a Megaera and shrieked to the men: "Kill the dogs! [10]
Colonel Carvel began to hum softly to himself:-- "'One said it was an owl, and the other he said nay, One said it was a church with the steeple torn away, Look a' there now! [9]
When he came to himself the splintered portions of his thighbone had been extracted, the torn flesh cut away, and the wound bandaged. [2]
But about the time of the equinoctial a great gale came out of the south so strongly that the water rose in the river over the boat landing; and the roof was torn from one of the curing-sheds. [9]
It is as though the leaves from the tree of my life had all dropped on the ground--nay, as though my own guilty hand had torn them from the stem. [10]
Superb she was, though her close-fitting travelling gown of green cloth was frayed and torn by the briers, and the beauty of her face enhanced by the marks of I know not what trials and emotions. [9]
We struck into the woods and entered upon a rough time, stumbling over roots, getting tangled in vines, and torn by briers. [5]
As it was the weapon had torn a piece of cloth from his coat. [11]
Again and again the two men seemed to sink beneath the sea, and again and again they came to the surface and battled further, torn, battered, and bloody, but not beaten. [11]
But even in the prison-yard she had felt it unendurable to exhibit herself decked in her bridal wreaths to the gaping multitude; she had torn them from her and thrown them on the ground. [10]
At evening, when the March wind had torn the cotton clouds to shreds, we stood on the Mississippi's bank, gazing at the western shore, at Louisiana. [9]
As soon as the firing of cannon began, all the people ran into the streets, and the street-cleaners, who were sweeping up the tiles and broken bits of slate that the storm had torn from the roofs, leaned on their brooms and listened. [10]
There he tore the embalmed body out of its sarcophagus, caused it to be scourged, to be stabbed with pins, had the hair torn off and maltreated it in every possible way. [10]
Between the trenches the earth was torn and tortured, as though some sudden fossilizing process, in its moment of supreme agony, had fixed it thus. [9]
Keraunus felt that the dog had threatened him, but at this instant he would have let himself be torn by him without wincing, so completely was he overmastered by the fury born of his injured pride. [10]
The army destroyed; the desertion of Herod and Pinarius; Antony's generous, trusting heart torn by base treachery, his soul darkened; the reconstruction of the canal, the last hope--Gorgias brought the news--the same as destroyed. [10]
Having gone round the corner of the hothouse to the ornamental garden, he saw that the carved garden fence was broken and branches of the plum trees had been torn off with the fruit. [2]
Nothing frightened her; the "haunted" chamber, with the torn hangings that flapped like wings when there was air stirring, was one of her favorite retreats. [6]
She remembered at that moment the time that a horse had struck Val with its forefeet, and torn the flesh from his chest, and how he had been brought home tied to a broncho's back. [11]
Once she saw that he had a building completely torn down which divided a burning granary from some other storehouses that had been spared, and she understood the object of this order; it cut off the progress of the flames. [10]
He did not tell me all this straight out; a word fell from him now and then, like dates from a torn sack. [10]
His face is swollen and bloodshot in one part, and cruelly torn in others. [10]
I had no stockings, and my feet were torn and blistered. [5]
But there they stayed, scooping out the yellow clay with torn hands, while the Parrotts, with lowered muzzles, ploughed the slope with shells. [9]
It was even stated that the old sage's house was to be torn down, and within a few hours. [10]
When you were starving he risked his life--" Torn by anxiety for my friend, I dragged myself into the nearest cabin, and a man was fighting there in the half-light at the port. [9]
It is a simple business for a mason to build up a niche in a wall; but what if, a hundred years afterwards when the wall is torn down, the skeleton of a murdered man drop out of the niche? [3]
This lad in short trousers, torn shirt, and a frayed straw hat above his mobile and cheerful face, might be only another sort of animal, a lover like themselves of the beech-nut and the hickory-nut. [4]
All her days she had lived precariously near it, and lately she had visited these people, had been torn by the sight of what they endured. [9]
The old man shared the fate of the first, for they now heard his cries as he was torn in pieces. [5]
I have not said much about my mother, who might have been likened on such occasions to a grand jury compelled to indict, yet torn between loyalty to an oath and sympathy with the defendant. [9]
The cross which Rosalie had torn from the pillar, Charley had thrust into his bosom, and there it now lay on the red scar made by itself in the hands of Louis Trudel. [11]
Unless Heaven had robbed me of reason, had torn the past from me at a single stroke. [9]
Then the pirate's promised bride lowered her voice again, and did not raise her tones until she saw in imagination the fulfilment of the judgment which she was calling down upon the man who had torn her heart with such pitiless cruelty. [10]
Then you must promise not to allow my corpse to be torn in pieces by dogs and vultures. [10]
In the first place, to lose her was to sacrifice that which he had paid for dearly--a mortgage of ten thousand dollars torn up. [11]
The Irishman came out of the tangle of battle with a wild kind of light in his eye, his beard all torn, and face battered. [11]
The very honesty of his words seemed, for an instant, to disconcert her; and she produced a torn lace handkerchief, which she thrust in her eyes. [9]
The opposing tides of battle must have blended their waves at this point, for portions of gray uniform were mingled with the "garments rolled in blood" torn from our own dead and wounded soldiers. [6]
Pierre's attire by now consisted of a dirty torn shirt (the only remnant of his former clothing), a pair of soldier's trousers which by Karataev's advice he tied with string round the ankles for warmth, and a peasant coat and cap. [2]
I have often noticed on other high mountains how the clouds, forming like genii released from the earth, mount into the upper air, and in masses of torn fragments of mist hurry across the sky as to a rendezvous of witches. [4]
And Hermas did not wrench himself from her white arms, as he had torn himself from hers that noon by the spring-torn himself away never to return. [10]
Hilary Vane did not shed tears, but his friends suspected that his heart-strings were torn, and pitied him. [9]
An he yield not his secret now, ye shall see him torn asunder. [5]
Deep silence, yet no peace reigned above them: the high wind now piled the dark clouds into shapeless masses, anon severed that grey veil and drove the torn fragments far asunder. [10]
In an instant more she had torn her way out of the press, and past the guards, and was at his side. [5]
Mr. Claude told me that indeed a man had arrived that morning from the North, a spare person with a hooked nose and scant hair, in a brown greatcoat with a torn cape. [9]
It did not matter while he himself was not conscious of it; but now that the armour-plate of conceit protecting his honest mind had been torn away on the reefs of foolish deeds, it mattered everything. [11]
Here, you may look in whatsoever direction you please, and your eye encounters scarcely any thing but ruin, ruin, ruin!--fragments of houses, crumbled walls, torn and ragged hills, devastation every where! [5]
After waiting a long time he heard a door torn open, and the smith angrily exclaim: "To your spinning-wheel! [10]
In summer we lived in the beautiful country-house, that was torn down before the siege by your friends--with little justice I think. [10]
I am the lineal descendant of that infant--I am the rightful Duke of Bridgewater; and here am I, forlorn, torn from my high estate, hunted of men, despised by the cold world, ragged, worn, heart-broken, and degraded to the companionship of felons on a raft! [5]
Philip looked at leis torn clothes, and thought with disgust of his haste in getting into a fight with such an autocrat. [5]
He was tried, knouted, and his nostrils having been torn off, "all in due form" as Karataev put it, he was sent to hard labor in Siberia. [2]
Behind the altar is the massive sarcophagus of marble (its cover of silver plates was long ago torn off) in which are literally the ashes of the empress. [4]
When the mind is in torture and the spirit is torn, the instinctive effort is to bodily activity, to force physical exertion, as if there must be compensation for the mental strain in the weariness of nature. [4]
The peacock feather in his little velvet cap could easily be replaced, but the doublet was torn, not ripped, and the stocking scarcely capable of being mended. [10]
Then she fled homeward as quickly as she could, torn and bleeding from the wounds of thorns and briars, but more lacerated in mind, and threw herself upon her bed, distracted. [12]
Vividly she recalled his home-coming in the twilight, his coat torn and muddy, a bleeding cut on his forehead, and the colt quivering tame. [9]
The freedman and his companions had broken it up and fed the flames with withered boughs, the torn garments of the murdered man, and dry sea-weed. [10]
While so doing his cheeks were torn open, and the evil deed neither pleased him nor specially strengthened his love for the count. [10]
He was haggard, his buckskins were torn, his hair was dishevelled, and he limped a little; but he was a massive and striking figure, and MacFee watched him closely, for there was that in his eyes which meant trouble. [11]
And we left him at his forge, his honest breast torn with emotion, looking after us. [9]
Terrible anguish struck her heart, she felt a dreadful ache as if something was being torn inside her and she were dying. [2]
Love will carry her a great way, and to far countries, and to many endurances, and her capacity of self-sacrifice is greater than man's; but would she ever be entirely happy torn from her kindred, transplanted from the associations and interlacings of her family life? [4]
The bewildered, the helpless--and there are many--are torn from the parent rock, crushed, rolled smooth, and left stranded in strange places. [9]
Within ten seconds he was so tangled up in a maze of mutilated verbs and torn and bleeding forms of speech that no human ingenuity could ever have gotten him out of it with credit. [5]

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