Within the little valley of Brand Death was rife in many and awful shapes that no eye might see, for the many watch-fires were scattered and trampled out; but up from that pit of doom rose shrieks and cries and many hateful soundssounds to pierce the brain and ring there everlastingly.

Pentavalon is rife with war and rumours of war, everywhere is whispered talk of wardeath shall be busy within this evil Duchy

His projects were encouraged by the discord rife among the little states or cantons which composed the Swiss league.

In the island itself controversy was rife as to the degree in which such results had been already achieved, and the promise of further progress.

But in contemplating the rife of the Saracen khalifate, and the religion of Mahomet, which immediately succeeded these events, we are compelled to acknowledge a more astonishing object.

My companion getting out, left me in the comfortable possession of my ignorance; and I heard him, as he went off, putting questions to an outside passenger, who had alighted with him, regarding an epidemic disorder, that had been rife about Dalston; and which, my friend assured him, had gone through five or six schools in that neighbourhood.

True, Marie de Medicis was an exile and a wanderer; the royal brothers, through his means, alienated in heart; discord and suspicion rife between the monarch and his neglected wife; while even the first passion of the King's youth had been quenched by Richelieu's iron will.

To neglect prayer and watching, is to lay aside that lamp, and then, though the eye see no danger and the ear hear no warning, spiritual death may be gathering around us her invisible vapors, stored with ruin, and rife for a sudden explosion.

Notwithstanding the lateness of the hour, the melody of music was rife on the water.

" The "New Orleans Merchant" of March 20, 1838, says: "Murder has been rife within the two or three weeks last past; and what is worse, the authorities of those places where they occur are perfectly regardless of the fact.

He, for his part, felt a pang at seeing so much insanity rife amid those wealthy surroundings.

In these things there is explosive matter enough to blow up half a dozen national conventions, if it gets into them; and what gets very rife outside of conventions is very likely to find its way into them.

It had been built in the days of Ferdinand VII at the period when French architecture was running rife over the world, and had the appearance of a Gascon chateau.

He preceded me in life, and I see few remains of his character in a region where speculation is more rife than moralizing, and emigrants are plentier than hunters.

That betting of which Maulevrier had heard was rife to-night, and the odds upon the Cuban had gone up.

The plague seems rife at Erivan.

The service he regards society as most in need of is to put down the conceit which is so particularly rife around him that he is inclined to believe it the growing characteristic of the present age.