As she approached Viswamitra, the wind god Vayu tore away her garments.

When, however, in 1849, JA Froude published his Nemesis of Faith, Sewell denounced the wickedness of the book to his class, and, when one of his pupils confessed to the possession of a copy, seized it, tore it to pieces, and threw it in the fire.

Ahijah the Shilonite tore Jeroboam's mantle into twelve pieces, to typify the division of the kingdom of Israel, and Zedekiah made horns of iron to encourage Ahab to engage in war with Ramoth-gilead.

Some gracefully soared from the backs of their wounded, screaming mounts to make one last defiant charge before the lead split their hearts or tore their guts.

Dillinger was struck three ( or four, according to some historians ) times, with two bullets entering the chest, one of them nicking his heart, and the fatal shot-which entered Dillinger through the back of his neck, severed his spinal cord and tore through his brain before exiting out the front of his head just under his right eye.

Shortly before he was to enter Piedmont High School, he rode his bike on the school's sports field and tore up the wet turf ; this resulted in his being asked not to enroll.

The city of Bari, which had been the capital of the Byzantine Catapanate of Southern Italy for centuries before the arrival of the Normans, opened its gates to the Emperor's army, and the overjoyed citizens tore down the Norman citadel.

Shortly before the Byzantines took the area back five years later in 615, the Persians gave control to the Christian population, who tore down the partially built Jewish Temple edifice and turned it into a garbage dump, which is what it was when the Caliph Omar took the city in the 630s.

Kirilenko, who had missed 13 of the last 15 games of the season due to an injury, re-aggravated the injury the day before the first game of the playoffs and missed the first round, while Okur tore his Achilles tendon in the first game and missed the rest of the playoffs.

The Jews accepted, however, in order to ensure they would not rise against them soon again, the Syrian king and regent broke their promise and tore down the walls of Jerusalem before leaving.

They also burned Union supplies and tore up the railroad tracks before retreating.

A month before the first shots of war rang out at Fort Sumter, shots that tore a nation in two, the original and patriotic Board of Supervisors formally established Union Township on March 9, 1861.

The Renaissance began during Cosimo's de facto rule of Florence, the seeds of which had arguably been laid before the Black Death tore through Europe.

He also co-founded with writers Albert Camus and André Gide the support committee for Garry Davis, an American who tore apart his passport before the US embassy in a gesture of protest against nationalism.

Khan tore a hamstring three days before the filming was over.

On Doctor Zhivagos opening night in Sydney ( February 2011 ), Warlow tore a calf muscle four hours before the show was due to start, and was thus cut short.

During the 2005 Cronulla riots, a Lebanese-Australian youth, whose name has been kept secret, climbed an RSL club building and tore down its flag before setting it on fire.

Doomsday tore through numerous probes with seemingly little effort, while aided by Superman — the only time the two enemies would come close to teaming up — before finally confronting Imperiex himself.

The devastating twister tore through several densely populated residential areas before slicing through downtown, dealing a direct blow to the First National Bank building and the Great Plains Life building.

He was bothered by a neck injury then he tore cartilage in his ribs shortly before the competition.

Escobar tore his capsule in his right shoulder before he even threw a pitch for the Mets.

Ultimately, the Chosen One who could open the Matrix proved to be the youthful Hot Rod, who reclaimed the Matrix and was reformatted by its power into Rodimus Prime, before opening it within Unicron and releasing its power, which tore Unicron apart from within.

Orion Pax would face Megatron in open combat for the first time at Sherma Bridge, during the Rorsha Campaign ; his side lost 5000 men but he tore off the tyrant's cannon arm before he losing and getting thrown off the bridge.

However, when Myrkul died at Midnight the Mage's hand during the Time of Troubles, the god tore the broken shards of the ' Crown ' from Blackstaff Tower, reforged it in a new shape, and infused it with the remains of his sentience before teleporting away.

The night before the execution, Cashman and a crew of volunteers tore down the grandstand under the cover of darkness.

However, while running sprints in the outfield the day before the playoffs started, Hernández tore a muscle in his calf and had to be scratched from the postseason roster.

However, before the 2001 – 02 season could even start, James tore his knee ligaments on England-duty after a collision with Martin Keown.

In another version, Lucy's betrothed admired her eyes, so she tore them out and gave them to him, saying, " Now let me live to God ".

After a decade of neglect, the Southside Church of God in Christ tore down the original Stax studio in 1989.

Mythar, God of Chaos, took this fabric and tore them asunder.

Even death, when he tore her from the arms of her husband, could but transplant her to the bosom of her God.

When informed that an angel of God had revealed the characters to Joseph Smith, Anthon tore up the authentication.

he memorized them thoroughly and then we tore them into tiny pieces and flushed them down.

He shivered, and then tore away the blood-soaked parts and wound the rest around his neck like a scarf.

His own hounds then turned upon him and tore him to pieces, not recognizing him.

When battle was near, it was drawn out ; then it roared and struggled against its thongs, fire flashed from it, and it tore through the ranks of the enemy once slipped from the leash, never tired of slaying.

The plays became like elastoplast, which you just stuck on and then tore off.

He then tore a file of Eisenhower's messages to shreds in front of him and argued for a concentrated northern thrust, simultaneously demanding priority of supply.

His last recorded words were: " The city is fallen and I am still alive ", and then he tore off his imperial ornaments so as to let nothing to distinguish him from any other soldier and led his remaining soldiers into a last charge where he was killed.

His mother was the first one to spear him and then the group tore his flesh apart with their bare hands.

He simply tore open the cartridge, used a small amount of powder to prime the pan, then dumped the remaining powder from the cartridge into the barrel.

In his deposition of 18 June 1731, Jenkins stated that the Spanish captain, " took hold of his left Ear and with his Cutlass slit it down, and then another of the Spaniards took hold of it and tore it off, but gave him the Piece of his Ear again.

The soldier then tore off the twisted end of the cartridge with the teeth and spat it out, and continued to hold the now open cartridge in his right hand.

The left wing clipped the back side of the tour bus, tore the fiberglass roof then sent the plane spiraling.

The Welsh then tore down its walls and set the castle alight.

Hodeken waited for the servant to go to sleep and then strangled him, tore him limb from limb, and threw him in a pot over the fire.

The Wall Street Journal then tore into Royko with an article of its own, titled, " Has a Curmudgeon Turned Into a Bully?

Disguised as a beggar, he tore off the covers of the four dictionaries and hid them at the bottom of his bag with rotten food, then successfully crossed several lines of the blockade and reached Ruijin on October 7, 1934.

For reasons unknown, Stine drove one block past Maple to Cherry Street ; the passenger then shot Stine once in the head with a 9mm, took Stine's wallet, car keys and tore away a section of Stine's bloodstained shirt tail.

She broke her knee while on the Baikal Amur Mainline railway, then tore a calf while recuperating at Lake Baikal and her plans changed to a journey around Siberia by train, boat and bus, documented in Through Siberia by Accident.

In an attempt to outdo each other, the singers tore off pieces of their dresses to reveal minidresses then staged a faux catfight that left the audience in disbelief.

He responded with a series of large scores, in which he played very aggressively, but then tore a thigh muscle.

In the visions, Zosimos mentions encountering a man who impales himself with a sword, and then undergoes " unendurable torment ": his eyes become blood, he spews forth his flesh, and changes into " the opposite of himself, into a mutilated anthroparion ( a Greek alchemical concept of a being somewhat similar to a golem but possessing a sense of will and intelligence ), and he tore his flesh with his own teeth, and sank into himself ".

The ending was revised in a final 1857 edition to a more gruesome ending wherein Rumpelstiltskin " in his rage drove his right foot so far into the ground that it sank in up to his waist ; then in a passion he seized the left foot with both hands and tore himself in two.

First tested on 22 April 1862, and aimed at a target of two upright poles, uneven combustion of the powder and casting imperfections in the barrels gave the connected balls a spinning movement in an off-center direction, with witnesses reporting that on its first firing it " plowed up about an acre of ground, tore up a cornfield, mowed down saplings, and then the chain broke, the two balls going in different directions.

Perhaps misunderstanding the directions, the Russian soldier bringing his country's flag down tore it loose, then dropped it.