1079 examples of cleaves in sentences

Whosoe'er loves him Doth love the Arabs, too, and cleaves to them.

No doubt the seed of the oysters, which is shed in the tree when they spawn, cleaves to those branches, so that the oysters form themselves there, and grow bigger in process of time, and by their weight bend down the branches into the sea, and then are refreshed twice a day by the flux and reflux of it."

Thy potent will instinctive bosoms feel, And here arranging semilunar, wheel; Or marshalled here the painted rhomb display Or point the wedge that cleaves th' aërial way: Uplifted on thy wafting breath they rise; Thou pav'st the regions of the pathless skies, Through boundless tracts support'st the journeyed host And point'st the voyage to the certain coast,

Rustem meanwhile uplifts his ponderous mace, And cleaves his head, and scatters on the ground The reeking brains.

A curse there cleaves to the devoted place, That shall the new foundations raze: Greece shall in mutual leagues conspire To storm the rising town with fire, And at their armies' head myself will show What Juno, urged to all her rage, can do.

She tears the bark that to each body cleaves, 50 And from their verdant fingers strips the leaves:

In vain the mariners would plough the main With sails unfurled, and strike their oars in vain; Around their oars a twining ivy cleaves, And climbs the mast and hides the cords in leaves: The sails are covered with a cheerful green, And berries in the fruitful canvas seen.

His feet never stink so unbecomingly as when he trots after a lawyer in Westminster-hall, and even cleaves the ground with hard scraping in beseeching his worship to take his money.

I have runne till I sweat, sweat till my shirt cleaves to my backe, cryed till I am hoarse, and am hoarse till I cannot cry; and yet he will not come backe.

The angel who descends to crown Santa Felicita cleaves the air with the action of a swallow: and the angel in Rembrandt's Tobit soars like a lark with upward motion, spurning the earth.

I watch the distant torrent leap From ledge to ledge, yet hear no sound; A ghostly path it seems, whose deep, Swift channel cleaves enchanted ground.

The love of these two propriums is changed into conjugial love, so far as man cleaves to his wife, that is, receives her love, 194.

" CAPE COD BALLADS THE COD-FISHER Where leap the long Atlantic swells In foam-streaked stretch of hill and dale, Where shrill the north-wind demon yells, And flings the spindrift down the gale; Where, beaten 'gainst the bending mast, The frozen raindrop clings and cleaves, With steadfast front for calm or blast His battered schooner rocks and heaves.

He cleaves the liquid air, behold he flies, 70 And every moment gains upon the skies!

And love ne'er dies but when some hand Too careless of their mimic strife, Slow cleaves its tendrils from their hold, And hurls them down bereft of life.

Yet, at length, comes a lull O'er the mighty commotion, As the whirlpool sucks into black smoothness the swell Of the white-foaming breakersand cleaves thro' the ocean A path that seems winding in darkness to hell.

His heart still cleaves To earthly things: he's not prepared to step Into the presence of his God! BUTLER (going).

CLEAVES, FREEMAN.

Freeman Cleaves (A); 1Aug67; R414996. CLELAND, GEORGE.

After this thunderbolt which cleaves the ground Beneath my very feet, what can I do?

He pierces thee as the ax of the woodman cleaves the oak.

"The battle lost" our battle-cry; The foe once more advances: As some fierce whirlwind cleaves the sky, We skirr, through blood and slaughter, by, Amidst a night of lances!

Mortimer indicated the Success to Commerce with a sweep of the hand "A loftier Argo cleaves the main Fraught with a later prize; Another Orpheusyou'll excuse the comparisonsings again, And loves, and weepsand dies.

Come away; The people are slain at the gates, and they fly; The kind God hath left them this day; The battle-axe cleaves, and the foemen cry,

"And a cypress, mystic hearted, Cleaves the quiet dome of light With its black green masses parted

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