When within a few paces of the tree, its enormous rifted trunk became fully revealed to him; but no one was beside it.
Ever and anon the moon broke through the rifted clouds, and shed a wild glimmer upon the scene.
Pleasures of Fancy A path, old tree, goes by thee crooking on, And through this little gate that claps and bangs Against thy rifted trunk, what steps hath gone?
The Shepherd's Tree Huge elm, with riftedtrunk all notched and scarred, Like to a warrior's destiny!
Centuries old are the mountains; Their foreheads wrinkled and rifted Helios crowns by day, Pallid Selene by night; From their bosoms uptossed The snows are driven and drifted, Like Tithonus' beard Streaming dishevelled and white.
She girded up her sorrowful bones, And rifted the walls and the marble stones.
The sand beneath our feet is saturate With blood of martyrs; and these rifted stones Are awful witnesses against a people Whose pleasure was the pain of dying men.
Upon its summit rests a thin stratum of vegetable mould, supporting a shaggy crown of rifted cedars, rocking in every blast that sweeps the stream, whose turbid current boils, and chafes, and rages at the obstruction below.
No doubt her soul had taken another peep through the rifted curtain that was shutting out her future, and beheld something that must have appalled her.
Bark-formation slow, the cortex not rifted for some years.
In the Hard Pines the bark-formation begins early and the trunks of young trees are covered with a scaly or rifted bark.
Hamilton went down to cater fish for our dinner, and see it properly cooked--and I to see two remarkable indentures in the coast called Rivas, perhaps from their being rifted or riven.
Wild round their rifted brows with frequent cry, As of lament, the gulls and gannets fly, And from their sable base, with sullen sound, In sheets of whitening foam the waves rebound.
Accordingly, the huge tower remains wild and desolate--its chambers filled with sand, and its rifted walls and dismantled battlements giving unrestrained access to the roaring sea blast.
The ruined walls of Azimantium, rifted by the earthquake, offered nothing to oppose their progress.
Consumptive people used to be brought thither, and after the tops of nine waves had been caught in a dish and thrown on the patient's head, he was made to pass through one of the rifted rocks thrice in the direction of the sun.
M149) Near Everek, on the site of the ancient Caesarea in Asia Minor, there is a rifted rock through which persons pass to rid themselves of a cough.
Everek (Caesarea), in Asia Minor, creeping through a rifted rock at, ii.
Falkenstein chapel of St. Wolfgang, creeping through a rifted rock near the, ii.
The low moaning of the wind came to her in her upper room, and from her window she could see the rifted clouds and scattered stars.
The cold had become keener; overhead the clouds had rifted and a few stars kept watch with the night.
To the dread rattling thunder Have I given fire, and rifted Jove's stout Oak With his own bolt.
We mounted upward through a rifted rock, Which undulated to this side and that, Even as a wave receding and advancing.
We mounted upward through the rifted rock, And on each side the border pressed upon us, And feet and hands the ground beneath required.
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