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Rive   Listen
verb
Rive  v. t.  (past rived; past part. rived; pres. part. riving)  To rend asunder by force; to split; to cleave; as, to rive timber for rails or shingles. "I shall ryve him through the sides twain." "The scolding winds have rived the knotty oaks." "Brutus hath rived my heart."



Rive  v. i.  (past rived; past part. rived; pres. part. riving)  To be split or rent asunder. "Freestone rives, splits, and breaks in any direction."



noun
Rive  n.  A place torn; a rent; a rift. (Prov. Eng.)






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... movement sane, In harmony with what is fair. Never is Earth misread by brain: That is the welling of her, there The mirror: with one step beyond, For likewise is it voice; and more, Benignest kinship bids respond, When wail the weak, and them restore Whom days as fell as this may rive, While Earth sits ebon in her gloom, Us atomies of life alive Unheeding, bent on life to come. Her children of the labouring brain, These are the champions of the race, True parents, and the sole humane, With ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

... "Ye get a rive at the Covenants ae meenute, and a mouthfu' o' justification the next. Yir nae suner wi' the Patriarchs than yir whuppit aff ...
— Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush • Ian Maclaren

... to? Alas! men in our day think and read little that is serious; and they reflect hardly at all upon the vital things of life. They want to be let alone in their comfortable materialistic beliefs, even though those beliefs rend them, rive them, rack and twist them with vile, loathsome disease, and then sink them into hideous, worm-infested graves! The human mind does not want its undemonstrable beliefs challenged. It does not want the light of unbiased investigation thrown upon the views which it has ...
— Carmen Ariza • Charles Francis Stocking

... this would make a learn'd and liberal soul To rive his stained quill up to the back, And damn his long-watch'd labours to the fire; Things, that were born, when none but the still night, And the dumb candle, saw his ...
— Calamities and Quarrels of Authors • Isaac D'Israeli

... me the Birting sword, And with it bid me thrive, Or I the hill above thee will To thousand pieces rive." ...
— The Giant of Bern and Orm Ungerswayne - a Ballad • Anonymous


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