What sounded like a gunshot blast rending the night air.
It was accompanied by a tortured screech of rending metal, which echoed around the hanger, giving agonized voice to those faces.
The scenes at the pit 's mouth during the long attempt to clear the shaft were most heart rending.
This resulted in rending the colony into two irreconcilable factions, and in October 1856 Cabet with the minority (172) withdrew to St Louis, Mo., where he died on the 8th of November.
They ran from all parts of the Gardens, and formed a solid mass of an immense extent, rending the air with acclamations.
