Citations:torn


 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * Also he heard doleful voices, and rushings to and fro, so that sometimes he thought he should be torn in pieces, or trodden down like mire in the streets.


 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * "They are not torn down," cried Scrooge, folding one of his bed-curtains in his arms, "they are not torn down, rings and all. They are here — I am here — the shadows of the things that would have been, may be dispelled. They will be. I know they will!"