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Meanings of rive in English
Usage of rive in English
1
It has no certain Grain; and it is almost impossible to split or rive it.
2
An unkind look will sometimes rive like the lightning.
3
See, see, how the huge rocks rive and crumble!
4
Loud reports (as of thunder) were heard that seemed to rive the Himavat mountains.
5
It is extraordinary light, and free to rive.
6
I wouldna care if ye were to rive horse and beast and a' from me now.
7
Spanish Oak is free to rive, bears a whitish, smooth Bark; and rives very well into Clap-boards.
8
Sharp sorrow did in thousand pieces rive,
9
He had a frank, open face, and the rive knew at once that he was an American.
10
But I have almost forgotten that we are all this time sailing up the rive in our whale-boat.
11
They seem to me like shepherds 'at rive doon the door-posts, an' syne block up the door wi' them.
12
You run your packhorse, and I'll rive yuh five to one on him! a friend of Jeff Hall's yelled derisively.
13
It also exists in paying quantities on the shores and in the rive flows of the Macquarie, the Abercrombie, and Belubula rivers.
14
Now you must understand, that sort of Gum will not split or rive; therefore, I suppose, the Story might arise from thence.
15
I could rive the head of my adversary, and cast him headlong, without any noise which should be heard, into the cavern.
16
Finally the swift pulsation of engines at high pressure rived the night.
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Rive through the time