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- adjective Not
riven .
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Examples
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I was startled, for no sooner had the two pieces of (pg. 349) stone been fitted together than it seemed there suddenly emerged, as now from a single stone, unriven, the image of a galley.
Renegades Of Gor Norman, John 1986
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That stone must have stood unriven from the beginnings of time.
Year of the Unicorn Norton, Andre 1965
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Might he pass through the world, unriven by sorrows such as those!
Gaston de Latour; an unfinished romance Walter Pater 1866
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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.
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But the bonds of the heart-broken slave are unriven!
Enthusiasm and Other Poems Susanna Moodie 1844
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