What is "rifted"

Usage examples of "rifted".

And now the sole object distinctly visible was the figure of a weary sentinel, who stood on the frowning rampart immediately above the rifted wall, and whose drooping figure, propped upon his weapon, was indicated in hard relief against the thin, solitary streak of light still shining in the cold and cloudy wastes of the western sky.

Every circumstance connected with his desperate passage through the rifted wall revived, fearfully vivid, on his mind.

The cold, that he had defied in the vaults of the rifted wall, pierced in the farm-house garden.

You shall walk in the track that I have made in the rifted brick-work!

Never bewildered by the darkness for the moon had gone down--always led by the animal instinct co existent with his disease, he passed over the waste ground between the hostile encampment and the city, and arrived triumphant at the heap of stones that marked his entrance to the rifted wall.

Frequent landslips occurred, and in many places deep chasms rifted the ground.

More than once the curtain itself was rifted entirely asunder, but only to close up again immediately after allowing a momentary draught of cold air to penetrate the hall in a way that was refreshing and rather advantageous than otherwise.

As she still cowered in her lonely refuge, the final hope, the yearning dependence on a restoration to her father's presence and her father's love, that had moved her over the young chieftain's grave, and had prompted her last effort for freedom when Ulpius had dragged her through the passage in the rifted wall, suddenly revived.

He was tenderly rifted onto the side of the pool, where one of the girls attempted to breathe some life back into him.

The water was so deep now that when the waves came and rifted them up, his toes no longer touched the bottom.