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Rift

noun

(Written also reft)

A gap between cloud masses.

A narrow fissure in rock.

A personal or social separation (as between opposing factions). Synonyms: breach, break, falling out, rupture, severance.

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"Rift" Quotes from Famous Books

... in Thursdale to expand with the pressure of fate; but something in him cracked with it, and the rift let in new light. He went up to his ...

— The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton, Part 1 (of 10) • Edith Wharton

... coerce employers upon various points. The movement was a hopeless failure because the working men declined to have anything to do with the so-called leaders. When the split took place in the Chamber of Mines, it became the business of Dr. Leyds and the President to keep the rift open. This was done persistently and in a very open manner—the seceders being informed upon several occasions that a fusion of the two Chambers would not be welcome to the Government. Both before and since that time the same ...

— The Transvaal from Within - A Private Record of Public Affairs • J. P. Fitzpatrick

... A rift now appeared in the war cloud. Early in April, Washington received intelligence of a new order in council dated January 8, 1794, which only forbade trade between the French colonies and Europe, leaving American vessels to trade freely with the French ...

— Union and Democracy • Allen Johnson

... overtake her or meet her returning—alone. The road—little more than a trail—wound along the crest of the hill looking across the canada to the long, dark, heavily-wooded flank of Mount Tamalpais that rose from the valley a dozen miles away. A cessation of the warm rain, a rift in the sky, and the rare spectacle of cloud scenery, combined with a certain sense of freedom, restored that lighthearted gayety that became him most. At a sudden turn of the road he caught sight of Rosey's figure coming towards him, and quickened his ...

— By Shore and Sedge • Bret Harte

... little rift? But first permit me! [Lights his torch at ORDONIO'S, and while lighting it. (A lighted torch in the hand Is no unpleasant object here—one's breath Floats round the flame, and makes as many colours As the thin clouds that travel near the moon.) You see that crevice there? My torch extinguished ...

— The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Vol I and II • Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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