And the chain that bound the immortal soul to clay was riven asunder, and the soul was free to follow the Angel of Death.

The eastern sky, cloudless an hour before, was now overhung with a livid bank of ash-gray clouds, which were incessantly riven by broad and terrible flashes of silent lightning.

There were no marks of blowsindeed, none had been givenbut the door had been literally riven from its hinges, by the application of enormous, silent force.

Company H was in small huts made of poles and roofed variouslysome with cloth or canvas, others with slabs or boards rudely riven from the forest trees.

Oh, are we not taught by each beautiful ray To mourn not earth's fair things, though passing away; For though youth of its beauty and brightness be riven, All that withers on earth blooms more sweetly in heaven.