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Though she did not hang out with the bohemians and intellectuals of the rive gauche, there was nevertheless something about her persona that chimed with the romantic existentialism of the time.
From The Guardian • Apr. 29, 2018
You never put your foot in the same rive twice.
From New York Times • Nov. 28, 2017
“Per le spiagge, per le rive di Trieste,” he began, singing the opening lines of “The Bells of Saint Giusto,” a patriotic World War I paean to Italy’s victory against—and Trieste’s independence from—Austria-Hungary.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 3, 2015
And they gathered in pity and fear, for they faced a problem that might rive their church to its foundations.
From Time Magazine Archive
The murmur increased to an even groan of terror, and here and there, as some more acutely realized the desperate straits, frantic screams would rive through the drone of misery.
From Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians by Miller, Elizabeth
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