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Example sentences for "rive"

Lexicographically close words:
rivalries; rivalry; rivals; rivalship; rivalships; rived; riven; river; riverain; riverbank
  1. There are the shows and cabarets of Montmartre and those of the rive gauche, the Noctambules, and the Grillon.

  2. And besides, as we are to 'see' the Rive Droite, we should hasten, so that we may have at least half an hour to devote to the remainder of France.

  3. He gave up his entire day to showing us the beauties of the Rive Gauche.

  4. I'll be forced to repent some day for her sake, though there sudna be anither woman atween Venus and Mars but wad rive wi' lauchin at a word frae Cosmo Cupples.

  5. And the host's jist like to rive me in bits, as the prophets rave their claes whan the fowk contred them ower sair to bide.

  6. Heed, Nakir-Kish; rive open thy sacred bird, and in its entrails seek an answer to my questionings.

  7. But men's over-gilded reasons will not help you, when your conscience is like to rive with a double charge.

  8. And he tugged at my tail-coat like to rive it off me, your honour.

  9. Nothing short of such a charge of gunpowder as would rive the whole house of Marnhoul asunder would suffice to clear the staircase of the packing I had given it.

  10. To see the bridegroom rive his hair, As the primrose spreads so sweetly.

  11. Tak ye aff my Holland sark, And rive it gair by gair, And row it in my bluidy wounds, 25 And they'll ne'er bleed nae mair.

  12. It’ll call you and rive at your heart strings if you put t’ sea between you and it.

  13. I believe if they were to rive his shop down he’d nayther swear nor laugh; but just set to work and build it up again.

  14. Rive has some acute observations on this subject.

  15. Rive wrote, "I do not think that Faraday has once been caught in a mistake; so precise and conscientious was his mode of experimenting and observing.

  16. Tryon never told her, as the Governor had told him, that Rive Laflamme, when a prisoner in New Caledonia, had a wife in Paris: and he is man enough to hope that she may never know.

  17. Nodding slightly towards her, Rive Laflamme said in a low voice to Marie: "Her hearing at its best is not remarkable?

  18. Both turned, and saw the political prisoner, Rive Laflamme, followed by a guard.

  19. Twice a day during the long five years had Emmanuel de la Rive flashed over the long road to the station.

  20. Rive concludes, that bromine contains no iodine, but is an element analogous to iodine and chlorine.

  21. Rive has remarked a curious fact respecting the conducting power of fluids for electricity in the habitudes of bromine and water.

  22. Would it have resisted the Stamp Act, the Tea Tax, or any of those entering wedges of tyranny with which the British government sought to rive the liberties of America?

  23. At last they heard a horn, that shrilled clear 8 Throughout the wood, that echoed again, 9 And made the forest ring, as it would rive in twain.

  24. The smallest sort of these cabins are conical like a bee-hive; but the larger are built in an oblong form, and both are covered with the bark of trees, which will rive off into great flakes.

  25. Rive invited Sir Humphry and Lady Davy and Faraday to dinner.

  26. It has no certain Grain; and it is almost impossible to split or rive it.

  27. Tis a porous Wood, and used to rive into Rails for Fences.

  28. Oh, grand to the war he goes, O gai, rive le roi!

  29. These we quickly seized and overloaded in violation of the law, and then, dashing down the quiet streets of the Rive Gauche, headed for Montmartre, making a noise to rouse the dead.

  30. To rive what Goth and Turk, and Time hath spared: Cold and accursed as his native coast.

  31. To rive what Goth, and Turk, and Time hath spared.

  32. Awl stir it, or else awl rive it's legs off!

  33. The Abbe Rive was a strong but ungovernable brute, rabid, surly, but tres-mordant.

  34. The Abbe Rive had contrived to catch the shades of the appellatives necessary to discriminate book amateurs; and of the first term he is acknowledged to be the inventor.

  35. The Abbe Rive was one of those men of letters, of whom there are not a few who pass all their lives in preparations.

  36. The Abbe Rive had acquired a singular taste and curiosity, not without a fermenting dash of singular charlatanerie, in bibliography: the little volumes he occasionally put forth are things which but few hands have touched.

  37. Such are the men of whom the Abbe Rive speaks with more respect than his accustomed courtesy.


  38. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rive" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    river called; river port; river water