Moreover, but two years previous, a like scourge had been rife in Holland; and in Amsterdam alone twenty-four thousand citizens had died from its effects.
As the loadstone is rife with the magnetic virtue, as amber contains the electric, so in this substance, to which we yet want a name, is found the bright life-giving fluid.
The earth at my feet was rife with creeping plants and many-colored flowers, the sky overhead was half hid by motionless pines.
And, O Kali, he that seeketh to curse Nala crowned with such virtues, sinketh into the wide bottomless pit of hell rife with torments.
A song of Tristram’s, rife with the graceful gayety that masks and half-redeems a faithless heart.
Dejection and self-condemnation were alsorife among them.
Touching with finger-tip an aloe, rife With leaves sharp-pointed like an Aztec knife Or Carib spear, a gift to William Penn From the rare gardens of John Evelyn, Brought from the Spanish Main by merchantmen.
I confess that to me the idea of measuring strength with the famed guerrillero was at that moment rife with charms; and the excitement derived from the hope of meeting him, for a while abstracted my mind from its painful bodings.
Such terrible scourges as pyaemia and hospital gangrene were rife in all of them.
A pretence of voluntary contract was kept up, but fraud and deception wererife in the system and its results were tragic.
Perhaps, his spirit rife E'en now in nothingness doth wander lone!
Much of our free soil has been appropriated by an army of emigrants from Europe, and in connection with this fact the saying is rife that every foreigner seems infused with a new dignity from the moment that he becomes an American.
They are rife on all occasions, and their frequency and energy bear no relation to the supposed exigencies of his political career.
About five years afterwards it had again become rifeand very prevalent, and many again died of it.
The transitoriness of a sunset glory, or of human life, is rife with poetic pathos because it is a transitoriness which cannot be helped.
On 22nd September Craig wrote that, except the six principal merchants in Cape Town, all the population was hostile, and would certainly join the French, if they appeared, Jacobin ideas being rife alike in town and country.
Drastic proceedings were now inevitable; for mischievous rumours were rife at Dublin that nobody would suffer for his vote against the Union.
Several reports in the Home Office and War Office archives prove that discontent was rifeamong the troops, especially in the northern districts, on account of insufficient pay and the progress of Radical propaganda among them.
But some such measure would have appeased the discontentrife in both kingdoms, and, while easing the strain on the Imperial Parliament, would have nurtured the growth of that wider patriotism which has its roots in local affections.
It would further allay the religious animosities rife in Ireland, and would conduce to her freedom and happiness.
The flesh is firm and the product stands harvesting and shipping well and at a season of the year when brown-rot is usually rife this variety is fairly free from this scourge of the Sweet Cherry.
Fortunately this pest is not as rife with the cherry as with peaches and plums.
Lesser faults are that the cherries are not uniform in shape and are borne thickly in close clusters so that when brown-rot isrife this variety suffers greatly.
The volunteering spirit rifein the early days of the Civil War had wrought the first depletion in the number.
Hypocrisy and vindictiveness arerife and man suffers thereby.
Moreover, he showed himself a true friend by attempting to correct the opinion which was rife in Rome as well as in France, that the quiet enjoyed by the Catholics was due rather to political reasons than to her influence.
Many surmises were rifein Rome as to Douglas and his mission.
For the moment lamentations were rifein Johannesburg, and at many a dinner-party unprofitable discussions raged as to what would have happened had Dr.
Everything seemed conspiring to make the occasion a joyful one, for all through the North, from Maine to California, the air was rife with the jubilee songs of victory, and the notes of approaching peace.
Slowly the winter passed away, and the country was rife with stories of the inhuman treatment of our men, daily dying by hundreds, while those who survived the cruelties were reduced to maniacs and imbeciles.
The town was rife with rumors that a Negro organization was making plans to acquire the building.
Rumor was rife in 1775 that Governor Dunmore had dispatched an expedition of warships up the Potomac to "lay waste the towns and the country, capture Mrs. Washington, and burn Mount Vernon.
These were most rife in the Netherlands, where the free civil constitution afforded a place of refuge for all exiles on account of their faith.
Sachs, who had been expelled from the society, was the chief and almost only witness, but vague rumours were rife about mystic rites and midnight orgies.
The air wasrife with clamorous sounds, Of clattering factory-thundering forge,-- Conveyed from the remotest bounds Of smoky plain and mountain gorge.
