Where ashes are heaped in drifts / Over vineyard and field and town, / Whenever he starts and lifts / His head through the blackenedrifts / Of the crags that keep him down
As far as the eye can reach is a sea of green tree tops, with occasionally a deeprift where there is a chasm. Here and there are silver threads where the rivers wind in deep gorges through the forests.
Far back in the dim geologic ages, when the sediments of the old seas were being gathered and outspread in smooth sheets like leaves of a book, and when these sediments became dry land, and were baked and crumbled into the sky as mountain ranges; when the lava-floods of the Fire Period were being lavishly poured forth from innumerablerifts and craters;[…].
My marriage is in trouble: the fight created arift between us and we can't reconnect.
2025 June 3, David Smith, “Elon Musk calls Trump’s ‘big, beautiful’ tax bill a ‘disgusting abomination’”, inThe Guardian[3],→ISSN:
Elon Musk, the billionaire tech entrepreneur, has opened a newrift with Donald Trump by denouncing the US president’s tax and spending bill as a “disgusting abomination”.
I have but onerift in the darkness, that is that I have injured no one save myself by my folly, and that the extent of that folly you will never learn.
to the dread rattling thunder / Have I given fire andrifted Jove's stout oak / With his own bolt
1822,William Wordsworth,A Jewish Family (in a small valley opposite St. Goar, upon the Rhine)[4], lines9–11:
The Mother—her thou must have seen, / In spirit, ere she came / To dwell theserifted rocks between.
1894, Ivan Dexter,Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form inPort Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter III,[5]
he stopped rigid as one petrified and gazed through therifted logs of the raft into the water.
The mightie trunck halfe rent, with raggedrift Doth roll adowne the rocks, and fall with fearefull drift.
1986 December 21, Corinne Lightweaver, “AIDS Fears Shadow Lesbian's Memories”, inGay Community News, volume14, number23, page 6:
Whether these men are alive or not, the fragile meeting ground I shared with them has beenrift apart by a microscopic menace they didn't tell us about in high school biology.
