riven
verb
a past participle of rive.
unriven
-
a word derived from
riven.
Example Sentences
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Its age is "frosty but kindly;" some two or three hundred summers have passed over its old head, which, as yet, is unscathed by heavens fire, and unriven by its bolt.
From Notes and Queries, Number 74, March 29, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by George Bell
And pierced far down in his soul's crypt unriven The last black crooked sympathy and shame, And hailed him with that ringing rainbow name Erased upon the oldest book in heaven.
From The Wild Knight and Other Poems by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
Where's the unriven rock Can bide such blasting in its flintiest part As that soft sentient thing—the human heart?
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843 by Various
So the veil is unriven That hides the All-Holy, And no token is given That satisfies wholly The cravings of man.
From My Path to Atheism by Annie Wood Besant
Might he pass through the world, unriven by sorrows such as those!
From Gaston de Latour; an unfinished romance by Walter Pater
