"Rife" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... far remote from joy or bale, Wherewith each dusky page is rife, I seem to read some piteous tale Of strange romance, but ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 4, No. 24, Oct. 1859 • Various
... Editor, at times in prison, literary man and traveler who visited many lands and finally, like Fielding, died abroad in Italy, was checkered enough to give him material and to spare for the changeful bustle, so rife with action and excitement, of his four principal stories. Like the American Cooper, he drew upon his own experiences for his picture of the navy; and like a later American, Dr. Holmes, was a physician who could speak by the card of that side ...
— Masters of the English Novel - A Study Of Principles And Personalities • Richard Burton
... logically, doubled; and our friend holds it a grotesque folly to expect anything else of marriages in which two lovers, disappointed of each other in their youth, attempt to repair the loss in their age. Where any such survive into later life, with the passion of earlier life still rife in their hearts, he argues that they had much better remain as they are, for in such a belated union as they aspire to the chances are overwhelmingly ...
— Imaginary Interviews • W. D. Howells
... clearing his way to the English throne, it would be of no mean importance to secure the friendship of the Norman Duke, and the Norman acquiescence in his pretensions; it would be of infinite service to remove those prepossessions against his House, which were still rife with the Normans, who retained a bitter remembrance of their countrymen decimated [177], it was said, with the concurrence if not at the order of Godwin, when they accompanied the ill-fated Alfred to the English shore, and who were yet sore with their ...
— Harold, Complete - The Last Of The Saxon Kings • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... fancy of a lurking menace which seemed everywhere about the Planetara this voyage, ran rife with fears for Johnny Grantline. He had promised to communicate this voyage. It was now, ...
— Brigands of the Moon • Ray Cummings
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