Would it have resisted the Stamp Act, the Tea Tax, or any of those entering wedges of tyranny with which the British government sought to rive the liberties of America?

" And, still worse, "Out from their chest she stretch'd her bones And rent her way through earth and stones"; where Jamieson is not only more literal, but more forcible, "Wi' her banes sae stark a bowt she gae Hath riven both wall and marble gray.

o' her head; or the monster wad riven the blessed book out

Here a wing flies out Soaring at Victory; here the maine Battalia Comes up with as much horrour and hotter terrour As if a thick-growne Forrest by enchantment Were made to move, and all the Trees should meete Pell mell, and rive their beaten bulkes in sunder, As petty Towers doe being flung downe by Thunder.

Then, with a crash as if an earthquake had riven a mountain chain, the two bergs met.

A third crevice, twice the width of the second, split the rocks, riving a deeper cleft in the mountain that held back the inland sea, making a gorge through the majestic chain of the Cascades and opening a way for the torrent oceanward.

"Miss Twiddle's black dose;strong enough to rive the gizard out of an old cock!"

Saddled and bridled and gallant rade he; Hame cam' his horse, but never cam' he. Out came his auld mother, greeting fu' sair; And out cam' his bonnie bride, riving her hair.

Here is another reference to kirk and quireHe rives the kirk to theik the quire.

Most important of all, the slavery question, which afterwards rived in sunder the men west of the Alleghanies as it rived in sunder those east of them, was of small importance in the early years.

And yet to charge the sulphur with a bolt That shall but rive an oak.

Its lightnings have riven a path for the Angel of Peace.

A husband's hand shall rive the rock in which their crystal has been for years embedded.

It rives poor shoon to pieces i' no time.

[From The Poetaster.] O this would make a learned and liberal soul To rive his stainéd quill up to the back, And damn his long-watched labours to the fire Things that were born when none, but the still night And his dumb candle, saw his pinching throes; Were not his own free merit a more crown, Unto his travails than their reeling claps.

Ye have riven the thack of seven cottar houses.

As for him that rives blocks or carries packs, there is no great expense of parts, no anxiety of mind, no great intellectual pensiveness.

But fronting shot and flanking shell Sliver and rive the inwoven ways; High tops of oaks and high hearts fall, But never the climbing stays.

and the hands being well chafed [rubbed together]; he shrinks up his shoulders, and stretches forth himself as if he were going to cleave a bullock's head, or rive the body of an oak!