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At last the topmost log is rolled into place and the artistic work commences, -- the "riving" of slabs.

Detailed Minutiae of Soldier life in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865 Carlton McCarthy 1872

(Carter Papers: An Inventory .... ") [6] By" riving, "Carter means that planks could be split out of large timber.

Letter from Robert Carter to Robert Jones, October 10 and 14, 1727 1727

The Little Peco, strengthened by the multitudinous streamlets, rose against the manacles of winter, riving the ice with crashings and snappings.

THE END OF THE STORY 2010

Agape would be meeting Tania about half an hour before the flight, and the androids could be ar - riving shortly before that, being dispatched from some local depot.

Here There Are Monsters 2010

Comparing alcohol to pot, one professor at USC said alcohol taxes only cover about 10 percent of alcohol-related costs like drunk riving and tobacco taxes only cover about 20 percent of tobacco-related medical costs.

CNN Transcript Jul 24, 2009 2009

Please join me in support for poor, beleaguered gas station owners, the victims of unconscionable price gouging by ruthless consumers who are taking advantage of market conditions to reduce their demand for gasoline, riving down the price by nearly $2 per gallon over the last four months.

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Please join me in support for poor, beleaguered gas station owners, the victims of unconscionable price gouging by ruthless consumers who are taking advantage of market conditions to reduce their demand for gasoline, riving down the price by nearly $2 per gallon over the last four months.

Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Fight Price Gouging 2008

During the good old times of rugging and riving, (that is, tugging and tearing,) under which term the disorderly doings of the warlike age are affectionately remembered, this valley was principally cultivated by the sept or clan of the Armstrongs.

Death of the Laird's Jock 2008

During the good old times of rugging and riving, (that is, tugging and tearing,) under which term the disorderly doings of the warlike age are affectionately remembered, this valley was principally cultivated by the sept or clan of the Armstrongs.

Death of the Laird's Jock 2008

Babel in the air; there, a solitary man, half clerk, half mendicant, paced up and down with hungry dejection in his look and gait; at his elbow passed an errand – lad, swinging his basket round and round, and with his shrill whistle riving the very timbers of the roof; while a more observant schoolboy, half – way through, pocketed his ball, and eyed the distant beadle as he came looming on.

Barnaby Rudge 2007