1 For some remarkable reason, ghostly legends were uncommonly rife, about this time, among the servants on Legree's place.
2 Ignatius Gallaher puffed thoughtfully at his cigar and then, in a calm historian's tone, he proceeded to sketch for his friend some pictures of the corruption which was rife abroad.
3 Thoughts were rife in the air, in fact.
4 Calumny, therefore, is most rife in that State wherein impeachment is least practised, and the laws least favour it.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII.