What is "rif"

Usage examples of "rif".

His true place was that Kasbah, high up at the end of the town, where beggars slept at night in the doorways of shark shops, all Rif Rifles from the iron-founding Midlands.

And then, outside the Rif, he had heard these two men, talking loudly about someone who could only be Wapenshaw.

He had grinned and then seen his grin reflected in the glass door of the Rif, the back of a fat woman in black rompers making a temporary mirror-back.

Fatma, a cobra which was really an iron spring -- it throbbed and jumped and burred on the Moorish coffee table if you touched it, a Rif saddle, a hubble-bubble, scimitars and daggers on the walls.

Antonio sat on the Rif saddle and twanged his thumb from E to e, sniffing his tears back.

Brown men, of Rif or Berber stock, followed the voice, looking at her legs, though, with bright-eyed frank but hopeless desire.

Actually, like many men from the Rif Mountains, he was a kif dealer, selling potent Moroccan marijuana.

I heard this, I was tempted to play the hero and risk the wrath of the Rif mountain clan by rescuing Zina and her son.

Vigo soon appeared with the whore hanging on his arm, Rif and Neth trailing after with expressions of eager anticipation.

The impact sent him staggering into Rif, who clutched at him in confusion.

Neth was still dazed but Rif threw him off and turned to rush at Teiriol.

To this time, perhaps, belongs the incident related by Rif Baer, an Egyptian, who was his comrade and best friend in the regiment.

It happened that Rif Baer was ill, and, after working a while, his strength gave out.

The rifs is a foe to be fought, and in matters of battle his judgment is always best.

If they had miscalculated and the rifs struck the ship broadside, it would surely capsize her, splintering masts, cabins, deck and crew.