To please him they opened a port at last, although it was dangerous, the sea being very rough. It was going on for six in the evening. When the disk was swung back, a red light entered, glorious and radiant. The dying sun appeared upon the horizon in dazzling splendour, through a torn rift in a gloomy sky; its blinding light glanced over the waves, and lit up the floating hospital, like a waving torch.英文原著 · 《AN ICELAND FISHERMAN》
Blanco Sol stepped out. Before Gale stretched a line of moving horses, white against dark shadows. He could not see the head of that column; he scarcely heard a soft hoofbeat. A single star shone out of a rift in thin clouds. There was no wind. The air was cold. The dark space of desert seemed to yawn. To the left across the river flickered a few campfires.英文原著 · 《Desert Gold》
This occupation gave him a fresh lease of patience, and he now lived only to watch for the visitors' days, and scan the faces that swept by him like stars seen and lost in the rifts of a hurrying sky.英文原著 · 《Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton-Part 1》
It was not in Thursdale to expand with the pressure of fate; but something in him cracked with it, and the rift let in new light. He went up to his friend and took her hand.英文原著 · 《Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton-Part 1》
Through some rift a beam of melancholy light crept in; a smell of death hung in the thick, unclean air. Selo pointed to a stone altar. "It was there they killed their victims," he whispered, and began to pray anxiously, half-aloud. When he had finished, he hurried back, beckoning to her to come out. "Go," she said. "I will stay here."
"Then I will wait outside. This is no place for Christian souls. But we must return soon, madame.英文原著 · 《Frances Waldeaux》
And this rift between us, however he fought back, I caused it.美剧 · 《Billions》