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Example sentences for "rived"

Lexicographically close words:
rivalry; rivals; rivalship; rivalships; rive; riven; river; riverain; riverbank; riverence
  1. Beneath the rived shingles of my little room, under the sloping roof, how I turned and tossed through those long night hours!

  2. These rude structures were built in frontier style, of cleaved logs, and with one exception were but a single story in height, so that their roofs of rived shingles were well below the protection of the palisade of logs.

  3. The thought of Caleb Peevy rived into his muddled, benumbed mind.

  4. But now the subtle crack of that gun-shot rived into her senses like a withering scourge.

  5. Roofing All the old-time log cabins were roofed with shakes, splits, clapboards, or hand-rived shingles as already described and illustrated by Figs.

  6. The frame should be roofed with hand-rived shingles, or at least hand-trimmed shingles, if you use the manufactured article of commerce.

  7. Just once he looked on the little front yard spilling over its rived palings with autumn blossoms.

  8. Then they rived[177] east and they rived west, In many a strange countrį»³.

  9. And having quenched her burning fire brands, 6 Headlong herself did cast into that lake; 7 But Impotence with her own wilful hands 8 One of Maleger's cursed darts did take, 9 So rived her trembling heart, and wicked end did make.

  10. Brutus hath rived my heart: A friend should bear his friend's infirmities, But Brutus makes mine greater than they are.

  11. I counted the days while St Mark's Day, and tewed and rived and better rived to keep him out o' his coffin.

  12. Most important of all, the slavery question, which afterwards rived in sunder the men west of the Alleghanies as it rived in sunder those east of them, was of small importance in the early years.

  13. The scolding winds have rived the knotty oaks.

  14. Brutus hath rived my heart, A friend should bear a friend's infirmities; But Brutus makes mine greater than they are.

  15. Boards twelve feet long and a foot wide may be rived from selected logs, and they present surfaces nearly as smooth as if cut with a saw.

  16. In these instances, splitting is preferable to sawing, because a rived billet is free from cross grain.

  17. The larger trunks were rived for shingles or were sawed into lumber.

  18. Rived staves must come from timbers which split easily.

  19. They found that the wood rived well and it was abundant in the vicinity of their settlement.

  20. Then they rived east and they rived west,[L32] In many a strange country.

  21. Brutus hath rived my heart; A friend should bear his friend's infirmities, But Brutus makes mine greater than they are.

  22. They are dead and gone to Heaven; They are dead and gone to Heaven; 'Rived in the goodly land.

  23. She is dead and gone to Heaven; She is dead and gone to Heaven; 'Rived in the goodly land.

  24. The splash where the splinters of iron rived a whole house has been sought to be gently erased.


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