riven
verb
a past participle of rive.
unriven
-
a word derived from
riven.
Example Sentences
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And the river which rolled for ages, still In a gentle flow unriven, Now bears on its bosom by man's proud will, By the arts of industry and skill, The blessings to mortals given.
From Victor Roy, a Masonic Poem by Harriet Annie Wilkins
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
Might he pass through the world, unriven by sorrows such as those!
From Gaston de Latour; an unfinished romance by Walter Pater
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
