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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of reive.

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  • ____ miles on a direct line in length and Jeffersons river in passing through this Vally reives McNeals Creek, Track Creek, Phalanthrophy river, Wisdom river, Fields river and Fraziers Creek each throw in a considerable quantity of water and have innoumerable beaver and otter on them; the bushes in their low bottoms are the resort for great numbers of Deer, and in the higher parts of the Vally we see Antelopes scattered feeding.

    The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791

  • They say of them reives, "We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; as sorrowful, yet always re - joicing. ''

    Sermons on various important subjects of doctrine and practice 1812

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