I have seen tempests, when the scolding winds / Have rived the knotty oaks[…]
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Rive
/ɹaɪv/
Synonyms for "rive" (87 found)
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Closest matches (18)
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Related words (43)
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Translations
5 translations across 5 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- разцепвам се verb ((reflexive) to be split or rent)
Czech
1 entries- rozštěpit se verb ((reflexive) to be split or rent)
German
1 entries- (etwas) spalten verb ((reflexive) to be split or rent)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- sgàin verb ((reflexive) to be split or rent)
Turkish
1 entries- (bir şeyi) parçalanmak verb ((reflexive) to be split or rent)
Sample sentences
9 total sentences available.
And therwith she toke the swerd from her loue that lay ded and fylle to the ground in a swowne / And whan she aroos she made grete dole out of mesure / the whiche sorowe greued Balyn passyngly sore / and he wente vnto her for to haue taken the swerd oute of her hād but[…]sodenly she sette the pomell to the ground / and rofe her self thorow the body
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And the sword that had visited Earth from so far away smote like the falling of thunderbolts [...] and the runes in Alveric’s far-travelled sword exulted, and roared at the elf-knight; until in the dark of the wood, amongst branches severed from disenchanted trees, with a blow like that of a thunderbolt riving an oak-tree, Alveric slew him.
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The varlet at his plaint was grieu'd so sore, / That his deepe wounded hart in two did riue[…].
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