They, thinking it to be an alligator, had not taken the slightest notice of the boat, and went on feeding, tearing and riving the flesh, but stopping now and then to growl savagely at each other.
The loud boom of the eighteen-pounder, and the crashing of the shot as it plunged into the brig's bows, the rending and riving of her timbers, were unnoticed.
An opening made by riving or splitting; a cleft; a fissure.
If Riving Pike do wear a hood, The day, be sure, will ne'er be good.
As they say in my country, 'Riving Pike wears a hood when the weather bodes ill.
The Horne-bound tree is a tough kind of Wood, that requires so much paines in riving as is almost incredible, being the best for to make bolles and dishes, not being subject to cracke or leake.
Although we worked at riving and chopping and splitting every moment of daylight when we were not busy at something else, we never accumulated any comfortable store of firewood, so as to be able to rest even one day.
One intensely cold and brilliantly clear day, as I was riving a log, panting and glowing with the labor, yet with fingers numb and feet aching with the cold, I heard a yell from Agathemer.
Riving lengths of logs with wedges and maul was a kind of work calling for no special skill; Agathemer taught me all he knew in a day or two.
We went out to the woodpile and I resumed my chopping, while Agathemer set to riving logs with the wedges and maul.
Ye can be riving the skin off my bones," said he, "for I was telling her about yon.
She felt as if the whole life of people shut away in silence and solitude were disclosed to her in the swift, unutterably alive look of this noiseless kneeling creature, riving out of her something to feed his soul and body on.
Though she did not turn, she knew well that those eyes were following, still riving something from her; and she heaved a sigh of real relief when she was round a corner.
A great slug, whizzing down, beat a gaping hole in the deck, and fell rending and riving into the hold below.
From all sides came the yells and whoops of the soldiers with the rending and riving of doors as they burst into the store-rooms and treasure-chambers.
Meantime Jack had been rivingclapboards with a fro.
About noon the Doctor volunteered to go and prepare a roast venison dinner, and Jack proceeded to split the tree-lengths into sizes convenient for the riving of the clapboards.
And king Duryodhana, beholding that mighty array in the form of a Sakata, teeming with carts and men and steeds and elephants, roaring dreadful of wonderful form, and capable of riving the hearts of foes, began to rejoice.
Having cut off those shafts, O king, Yudhishthira, with eyes red in wrath, took up in that battle a dart, capable of riving even a mountain.
The work of riving Germany in pieces was not accomplished by Germans alone.
From henceforth French and Swedes on the one side, Austrians and Spaniards on the other, were busily engaged in riving at the corpse of the dead Empire.
A chasm opened and went riving up the valley, piercing through the bulwark hills.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "riving" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
