Cleaves

Their skin cleaves to their bones, their flesh being quite consumed and wasted away; it is withered; it has become like a stick, as dry and hard as a piece of wood. ❋ Unknown (1721)

And yet the idea cleaves to me strangely, and is liable to stick to my shroud. ❋ Various (N/A)

They clasp hands upon the compact, and Hagen with his sword cleaves in two the drinking-horn. ❋ Gertrude Hall Brownell (1912)

The mystic fire consumes our weakness, the sacred sword cleaves the bondage of desire. ❋ Okakura, Kakuzo, 1862-1913 (1906)

Similarly Pakudha Kaccâyana states that "when a sharp sword cleaves a head in twain" the soul and pain play a part similar to that played by the component elements of the sword and head. ❋ Charles Eliot (1896)

As the sword cleaves through the byrny, so there the mountain flank ❋ William Morris (1865)

Now from Westport to Ballinrobe we had met nobody but a very few people going into town either riding on an ass or driving one laden with a pair of panniers or "cleaves" of turf, for which some fourpence or fivepence would be paid. ❋ Bernard H. Becker (N/A)

The hero habitually "cleaves" his foeman "to the midriff," the "midriff" being what the properly brought up hero always has in view. ❋ Unknown (1904)

Not such an one as feeds in the stall nor such as cleaves the furrow, and drags the curved plough, nor such as grazes on the grass, nor such a bull as is subdued beneath the yoke, and draws the burdened wain. ❋ 300 BC-260 BC Theocritus (1878)

Of this spiritual, or etheric body it is said, "Fire burns it not; water wets it not; the sword cleaves it not; dry winds parch it not. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

And especially since science cleaves to an overly dogmatic definition of itself – especially at the populist level where most education occurs – this is perhaps quite unfortunate. ❋ Unknown (2009)

By Abel we understand the Christian who cleaves to God. ❋ Russell Jacoby (2011)

I can imagine that Inglourious Basterds is an antidote to Valkyrie (which cleaves more closely to history in depicting the failed attempt to kill Hitler). ❋ Unknown (2009)

Fishermen say on some days you can see a dull trace of the river as it cleaves through the blue-gray waters of the sea. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Bids him kneel, and as he kneeleth cleaves him down, and leaves him dead. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Searching for a unifying spiritual principle, like an alchemist of yore, Armstrong cleaves to the Golden Rule or: "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." ❋ Vanessa Thorpe (2010)