He passed a hand in front of it, and the wall opened, peeling back like a curtain.

But peel back the skin on this onion and what do we find?

He began peeling back the onion, finally coming to the original paper.

A. We invested a lot of time to peel back the onion and look at where their growth is.

"We wanted to really peel back their guard and tell us what was going on."

Then city crews have to peel back the crust of the 20th century for a look at the past.

With great care he peeled back a bit of tape.

He stepped over to a wall and peeled back a piece of the cloth.

He felt as though his skin had been peeled back with a scalpel.

The skin of it peeled back some more and the wing fell off.

It was as if part of himself had been torn away.

The thought was torn away by new pain in his head.

Beyond the picture a section of wall had been torn away.

A second or two and that hand would tear away whatever it held.

The band and back of the watch had been torn away.

His brother's family was wonderful, but their future had been torn away.

But a good part of that division has been torn away.

I haven't seen the master go tearing away like that in weeks.

To Elizabeth she wrote that life seemed to have been torn away.

But everyone's attention had been torn away by the sound of the screaming.