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The terrain is steep, largely trackless, and riven by the ghauts, or ravines, that radiate into the islandss northern lowlands.
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He arrived in a place already riven by religious and class differences.
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A large quantity, however, are now made by machinery and are known as sawn laths, those made by hand being called rent or riven laths.
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After the explosion, he places the riven drum back where it was sitting.
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They have steep terraced sides, and broken summit crests, riven into many pinnacles.
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A 4000 litre underground tank acts as a central echo chamber for of pipe radiating outwards to holes cored in the external, riven, flagstone wall.
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And when the sky is riven asunder.
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In studies extending across a broad spectrum of disciplines he has argued that our culture is disastrously riven.
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The ceilings and walls are clam shell plaster on riven oak lath.
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Described is an earthfast, hewn frame filled in (half-timbered) with riven clapboards for the siding, roofing and loft flooring.
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