1 A terrible sorrow had fallen upon him when he had been happy and he had let his soul fill itself with blackness and had refused obstinately to allow any rift of light to pierce through.
2 Tom got into this and held his candle as far under the rock as he could, but said he could not see to the end of the rift.
3 The blind was drawn but I found a rift at the sill.
4 The youth, peering once through a sudden rift in a cloud, saw a brown mass of troops, interwoven and magnified until they appeared to be thousands.
5 Surprised at the rift of light which he saw under his door, he had risen from his bed, and had groped his way thither.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XII—THE GRANDFATHER 6 A dull wrack was drifting slowly across the sky, and a star or two twinkled dimly here and there through the rifts of the clouds.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP 7 A half moon broke through the rifts of racing clouds.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 6. Baskerville Hall 8 The surface is very uneven, rising like the waves of a troubled sea, descending low, and interspersed by rifts that sink deep.
9 Here and there seemed mighty rifts in the mountains, through which, as the sun began to sink, we saw now and again the white gleam of falling water.