He dared not get up and say, "I am not guilty, the whole story is false"—even if he had dared this, it would have seemed to him, under his present keen sense of betrayal, as vain as to pull, for covering to his nakedness, a frail rag which would rend at every little strain.
He seemed really to be possessed of a devil, and I felt that it might suddenly turn and rend him.
Another fierce glare lit up the forest and an instant crash followed that seemed to rend the treetops right over the boys' heads.
The last rays of the setting sun shone upon her, and gleamed over the altar upon the shining clasps of the Bible, which lay open at the words of the prophet Joel, "Rend your hearts and not your garments, and turn unto the Lord.
