"Rive" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... earth he has made his own Floating in air or pent in stone, Will rive the hills, the sea will swim, And ...
— Morality as a Religion - An exposition of some first principles • W. R. Washington Sullivan
... aversion to bloodshed was not to be subdued but by the direst necessity. I knew, indeed, that the discharge of a musket would only alarm the enemies who remained behind; but I had another and a better weapon in my grasp. I could rive the head of my adversary, and cast him headlong, without any noise which should ...
— Edgar Huntley • Charles Brockden Brown
... Furnishing weapons to his hands; with beams, And ponderous stones, nay, with his body threats His enemies; with poles and stakes he thrusts The breasts advancing; when they grasp the wall He lops the arm: rocks crush the foeman's skull And rive the scalp asunder: fiery bolts Dashed at another set his hair aflame, Till rolls the greedy blaze about his eyes With hideous crackle. As the pile of slain Rose to the summit of the wall he sprang, Swift as across the nets a hunted ...
— Pharsalia; Dramatic Episodes of the Civil Wars • Lucan
... miners, including Kuiktuk was held. Plans for the trip were laid, the route selected and all preparations completed. The shaman would lead the men up the Selawik Rive; to its head waters, as the trails on the ice, though poor, were level and much better than across the country, where mountain ranges intercepted. They ...
— The Trail of a Sourdough - Life in Alaska • May Kellogg Sullivan
... weep not soe; Some ghostly comfort seek: Let not vain sorrow rive thy heart, Ne teares ...
— Book of Old Ballads • Selected by Beverly Nichols
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