| 1. | "On the contrary," said Holmes, "it is the brightest rift which I can at present see in the clouds. - from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 2. | Should rift to hear me and the words that follow'. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 3. | As far as the eye can reach is a sea of green tree tops, with occasionally a deep rift where there is a chasm. - from Dracula by Bram Stoker |
| 4. | Richie rift in the lute alone sat Goulding, Collis, Ward. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 5. | The years were not many when the Yeehats noted a change in the breed of timber wolves for some were seen with splashes of brown on head and muzzle, and with a rift of white centring down the chest. - from The Call of the Wild by Jack London |
| 6. | Surprised at the rift of light which he saw under his door, he had risen from his bed, and had groped his way thither. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 7. | The Euphrates flows through the Taurus range near the influx of the Kura Shai it rushes through a rift in the wildest cliffs fro. - from The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete by Leonardo Da Vinci |
| 8. | If the river will turn to the rift farther on it will never return to its bed, as the Euphrates does, and this may do at Bologna the one who is disappointed for his rivers. - from The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete by Leonardo Da Vinci |
| 9. | your huge rifts of canyons, Colorado. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 10. | Kisses chirp amid the rifts of fog a piano sounds. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 11. | The surface is very uneven, rising like the waves of a troubled sea, descending low, and interspersed by rifts that sink deep. - from Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley |
| 12. | He was going uphill, but though Little Toomai watched the stars in the rifts of the trees, he could not tell in what direction. - from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling |
| 13. | 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. - from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 14. | 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. - from Dracula by Bram Stoker |
| 15. | And lately over Milan towards Lago Maggiore I saw a cloud in the form of an immense mountain full of rifts of glowing light, because the rays of the sun, which was already close to the horizon and red, tinged the cloud with its own hue. - from The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete by Leonardo Da Vinci |