| 单词 | cloven |
| 例句 | “Pig tracks?” he asks dubiously as he looks at the cloven prints. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Each monster was about the size of a cow, with a bowed back like a broken-down horse, matted gray fur, skinny legs, and black cloven hooves. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z He came, a weary man with dinted helm and cloven shield. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z But Aragorn saw that he was pierced with many black-feathered arrows; his sword was still in his hand, but it was broken near the hilt; his horn cloven in two was at his side. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The horn came, but it was cloven in two, as it were by axe or sword. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Beside it was a great pile of helms and mail, cloven shields, and broken swords, bows and darts and other gear of war. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z You could see the impression of Milton’s cloven backside in the leather upholstery. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z There was a flash as if lightning had cloven the roof. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The flesh cloven along the bones, the ligaments dried to tug and taut as wires. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z “And, for thou wast a spirit too delicate/To act her earthy and abhorr’d commands ... /she did confine thee. . . into a cloven pine—” he whispered, and Meg recognized Mrs Who’s words to him. A Wrinkle in Time 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “Dude, these are my feet. It’s not like I’m hiding cloven hooves.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z The travellers came into a long valley; narrow, deeply cloven, dark and silent. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z I held my bloodied hands out to touch them and felt the cloven hooves of hairy animals. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Often the baby has a deeply cloven skull. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z His helm they set beside him, and across his lap they laid the cloven horn and the hilts and shards of his sword; beneath his feet they put the swords of his enemies. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z But one woman woke everybody up at dawn on Wednesday because she found the tracks of a biped with a cloven hoof. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z The face of the butcher's boy swam up before his eyes, cloven almost in two, and afterward the king had said not a word. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The Ch’i-lin, for instance, out of ancient China, has the body of a deer covered with gleaming scales, a marvelous bushy tail, cloven hooves, and small horns. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Here and there old trees had been cut or broken down, and large rocks cloven or heaved aside to make a way. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Quickly they searched the bodies of the Orcs, gathering their swords and cloven helms and shields into a heap. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z In each hand he held up one half of a great horn cloven through the middle: a wild-ox horn bound with silver. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z By both the doors they could now see that many bones were lying, and among them were broken swords and axe-heads, and cloven shields and helms. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The ferret grappled vainly but was cloven in two with one swift stroke. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z After a while they plunged into a deeply cloven track between tall trees that rustled their dry leaves in the night. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Also for sale are drinking vessels carved from cloven buffalo hooves, the hide on the ankle still attached. I Love Paraguay, an Ode to a Homeland 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z This move has historic ramifications for both El Segundo and Los Angeles, the latter a town famously cloven along a razor-wired border that, somehow, nobody has ever quite pinpointed. Critic at Large David Kipen on El Segundo in literature 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z “Its cats. Its pale sky. The empty sky of morning, drained and pure. Its deep, cloven streets. Its narrow courts, the faint, rotten odor within, orange peels lying in the corners.” James Salter’s ‘Blue, Indolent’ Corner of Burgundy 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z In the video, the singer has deer horns and cloven hooves. Taylor Swift and Phoebe Bridgers’s ‘Red’ Duet, and 14 More New Songs 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z As he did, he nudged aside the tarpaulin, and what she glimpsed – and in the same moment, refused to see – was not a cloven hoof, but the grubby hand of a human child. Winter Break 2010-12-04T00:05:00Z There will be no cloven hooves or torture racks or rounds of cribbage with Pol Pot and Hitler. Ten bands I will be forced to listen to in hell 2012-07-11T14:15:00Z STRATFORD-UPON-AVON, England — Picture this: It’s the first act of “The Tempest,” and the shipwrecked conjurer Prospero is reminding the spirit Ariel of his miserable past — 12 years imprisoned by a witch inside a “cloven pine.” At This ‘Tempest,’ Digital Wizardry Makes ‘Rough Magic’ 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z Carrie's mother, in her religious fervour, frequently refers to – either directly, or through Carrie's prior indoctrination – "the black man … his cloven feet striking red sparks from the cement". Rereading Stephen King: week one – Carrie 2012-05-24T12:02:53Z Italo Calvino: Letters, 1941-1985 is a charming addition to the Planet Calvino – a place cluttered with sphinxes, chimeras, knights, spaceships and viscounts both cloven and whole. Italo Calvino: Letters, 1941-1985 – review 2013-05-29T13:42:12Z He bore it away to the workshops, like I imagine the shop assistant did in Evelyn Waugh's Scoop when he had William Boot's cleft stick cloven in the cleaving department. Whangee, crook or derby? I have entered the world of the walking stick 2012-10-05T21:30:01Z This last film has been cloven in twain, certainly for purely artistic reasons. Scarecrow Video recommendations for 'Breaking Dawn' 2011-11-17T13:54:18Z The faun’s more threatening relative, the satyr, is overtly Luciferian, with horns and cloven hooves. A Gothic Tour of Italy 2011-10-28T18:55:00Z Made with both graphite and acrylic, the busy scenes achieve an entrancing variety of tones: acres of newspaper gray, crinkling across the drawings’ shallow perspective, are periodically cloven by a sudden swath of velvety black. Art Fairs Come Blazing Back, Precarious but Defiant 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z “Chilling Adventures” hurls everything it can into its narrative cauldron, including a cave like a Hellmouth and a prep school like a satanic Hogwarts, replete with cloven hooves and pentagrams. “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina” and the Ever-Bleaker Archie Universe 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z The plant’s long, slender leaves are cloven at the top and tapered at the tip, like an exaggerated cartoon heart. How Much Would You Pay for a Houseplant? 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z “And in their most unmitigable rage into a cloven pine, within which rift imprisoned he didst painfully—” “This Is Pleasure” 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z Foot and mouth disease is a highly contagious virus that affects cloven hooved animals. New Zealand steps up border protections against foot and mouth disease 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z His slobbery tongue leaves cloven streaks that are gross to step on in bare or stockinged feet. Perspective | What do doggies dream of doing? I think I know what mine craves. 2021-05-02T04:00:00Z The name of a police officer who supposedly investigated the cloven footprints in the snow was made up. Ronald DeFeo Jr., whose murder of family members launched ‘The Amityville Horror,’ dies at 69 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z In his short story “Ordeal by Golf,” the narrator declares, “In no other walk of life does the cloven hoof so quickly display itself.” The Serial Golf Cheat in the White House 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z “I expected cloven hoofs,” said one former NSC staffer. John Bolton puts his singular stamp on Trump’s National Security Council 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z Harbour seems comfortable slipping into the cloven hooves of the character previously portrayed by Ron Perlman, cracking wise and capturing the humanity at the center of a hero who looks anything but human. Tessa Thompson and David Harbour go monster hunting in trailers for new 'Men in Black' and 'Hellboy' 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z Blanchard’s script has no problem convincing us that these characters are owed a visit from a cloven beast, but its declarations that we, the audience, may be just as deserving aren’t quite as resonant. Better watch out: ‘Krampus Christmas’ is in town 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z Huge cloven footprints were found in the snow. Ronald DeFeo Jr., whose murder of family members launched ‘The Amityville Horror,’ dies at 69 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z The cloven ones on her campaign posts say her opponents are Satan and she is the only true “messenger of God.” The epic fail of the American electorate 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z Below, it reads in rapidly shrinking pica, “Earth, Texas, Horse, Hoof, Cell, Molecule, Atom”, with the last written in tiny letters on a cloven ecru background. Ed Ruscha: the veteran artist on the pleasure of the text 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z It was vaguely human-shaped, with cloven hooves, reddish skin, curly hair and horns. Incursions : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z Made from glass-reinforced plastic, this is a stylised flock of sheep complete with careful detailing of their curled horns, cloven hooves and thick fleeces. The bright red work of art (and 40 others) now protected - BBC News 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z In folklore, goats and their cloven hooves are often associated with the devil, but Orcutt’s animals couldn’t be sweeter. Chesterfield woman considers goats her pets 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z It as if the Statue of Liberty had been discovered to have cloven hooves. Atticus Finch is a racist in To Kill a Mockingbird’s sequel 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z Because her practice rounds include telling her opponent that it’s “time for the slaughter piggy, piggy, time for the slaughter, you cloven beast.” RECAP: Scandal Watch: “They’re All Murderers… All of Them” 2014-03-14T14:36:16Z Except for the cloven aspect, the ToPo shoe most resembles the Nike. Man Behind Vibram's FiveFingers Creates a Two-Toe Shoe 2013-01-24T22:34:49Z Two of our men went down before him, one having his skull cloven by a lightning sweep of the corsair's razorlike blade, the other having his sword arm cut completely through at the wrist. A Lad of Grit A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea in Restoration Times 2012-04-21T02:00:23.363Z Then with admiration which he withstood more feebly as time went on, and the cloven hoof failed to appear. The Great House 2012-03-30T02:00:14.973Z It stands on a steep, cloven hill that rises sheer from the wide, yellow, rush-bordered river about forty miles above Bordeaux. When Love Calls 2012-03-22T02:00:36.883Z "Since thou adrìft," says Prometheus, "And that immortal woman by thy side Floated above submerged barbarity To anchor, weary, on the cloven mount, Thou wast my representative." The English Novel And the Principle of its Development 2012-03-21T02:00:37.123Z For his people the sea is cloven in twain; and we must confess it is the least that could be done on this occasion. Voltaire: A Sketch of his Life and Works 2012-03-14T02:00:25.570Z The clean and permitted food was obtained from oxen, sheep, goats, and in wild animals from deer, wild-goats, and gazelles, and in fact from all animals which ruminate and have cloven feet. The History of Antiquity, Vol. II (of VI) 2012-03-01T03:00:28.903Z We wandered about to examine the country; but, excepting the track of some quadruped, whose foot was small and cloven, rather like a pig's, we saw nothing new. Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836 Volume I. - Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830 2012-02-24T03:00:32.793Z He must have caught a glimpse under her ample skirt of a cloven hoof instead of a substantial foot, and have been alarmed by the spectacle. The Maid of Honour, Volume 2 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:34.990Z Two long lines of snowy cloth, illuminated by myriads of wax-lights in massive silver candelabra, vanished in perspective like the iridescent path cloven by a ship at night-time. My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:26.817Z We will drive back to their own inhospitable clime every Yankee who dares to pollute our shores with his cloven feet. The Iron Furnace Slavery and Secession 2012-02-14T03:00:24.963Z Then the mask of hypocrisy was boldly thrown off, and the cloven foot uncovered. Norman's New Orleans and Environs Containing a Brief Historical Sketch of the Territory and State of Louisiana and the City of New Orleans, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time 2012-02-13T03:00:18.260Z All of them carry rifles and sabres, and two daggers in their 392 girdles, one of which always has a cloven hilt. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:11.843Z Others of them gave as a reason why good people should eat only animals with a cloven foot, the fact that righteous people lived not only in this world, but had expectations in the next. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 5 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:03:49.813Z His face upturned to hers, his lips Kept talking on, but gave no sound; His feet were cloven to the ground; Like iron hooks his finger-tips. Songs of the Mexican Seas 2012-02-06T03:00:16.913Z Sometimes he had boots, and sometimes shoes on his feet; but still his feet are forked and cloven. Witch, Warlock, and Magician Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland 2012-02-06T03:00:14.350Z He walked abroad in his true character, flaunting his red tights, his cloven hoof, his spiked tail and his mysterious horns. Gargoyles 2012-01-05T03:00:27.063Z Loud round the sounding portal the din of battle peal'd, And many a helm was cloven, and shatter'd many a shield. The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition 2012-01-04T03:00:37.750Z By-and-by, That fowl's avenging sprite, Set his cloven foot for spite In her eye. A Selection from the Works of Frederick Locker 2012-01-03T03:00:13.067Z The miracle of the cloven tongues.—Misapplication of a prophecy of Joel. The Christ Of Paul Or, The Enigmas of Christianity 2011-12-24T03:08:04.237Z She also sent to him a person clothed in russet, with a little bush beard and a cloven foot, together with her imps, a toad, and a crab. Witch, Warlock, and Magician Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland 2012-02-06T03:00:14.350Z The "cloven tongues" so much spoken of, designated those who were capable of holding forth the exoteric, or esotoric doctrine, as occasion might require. Religion In The Heavens Or, Mythology Unveiled in a Series of Lectures 2011-12-24T03:08:03.360Z Here the Devil gets the credit of a handsome face and Napoleon the debit of cloven feet. George Cruikshank 2011-12-18T03:00:20.137Z The coach was ready, and the bullock bells jangled as the large white beasts shook the flies from their heads and stamped a cloven hoof, breathing out heavily through their glistening nostrils. The Outcaste 2011-12-12T03:00:25.380Z All this has nothing more to do with, or has no more reference to, the miracle of the cloven tongues than it has to the assassination of Julius C�sar in the Roman Senate. The Christ Of Paul Or, The Enigmas of Christianity 2011-12-24T03:08:04.237Z The hooves are cloven; it has droopy ears and a short snout. The White Elephant of Rucheni 2011-11-22T18:45:02.247Z Paul's tongue appears to have been cloven into more than two parts. Religion In The Heavens Or, Mythology Unveiled in a Series of Lectures 2011-12-24T03:08:03.360Z In most cases, after two or three calls with no exhibition of cloven hoofs or ulterior designs on the part of their visitors, the natives welcomed them in the most friendly fashion. White Fire 2011-11-21T03:00:15.067Z The head rose, the shoulders rose, and the whole form then rose up: a sunburnt youth, with the legs of a goat, rough-haired and cloven hoofs. Psyche 2011-11-15T03:00:18.293Z Now what has this beautiful and sublime poem to do with the miracle of the cloven tongues? The Christ Of Paul Or, The Enigmas of Christianity 2011-12-24T03:08:04.237Z Milton shows us Satan in all the pride and pomp and power this world oft throws around his cloven Majesty. The World's Best Books : A Key to the Treasures of Literature 2011-10-20T02:00:20.857Z My Rajput sepoys would not eat the flesh of the former; for, like most Hindus, they imagined that its cloven hoof made it kin to the sacred cow. Life in an Indian Outpost 2011-10-19T02:00:19.943Z But he found in such thoughts the visible cloven hoof of avoidance, compounding, cowardice, and resolutely shut down upon them. White Fire 2011-11-21T03:00:15.067Z So also the writer of the Acts of the Apostles speaks of the Christian Holy Ghost as having serpent-like ‘cloven tongues of fire,’ which the margin of orthodox Bibles very properly connects with Isaiah’s Seraphim.” Fishes, Flowers, and Fire as Elements and Deities in the Phallic Faiths and Worship of the Ancient Religions of Greece, Babylon, 2011-10-13T02:00:41.150Z And there appeared unto them cloven tongues, like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. Biblical Extracts Or, The Holy Scriptures Analyzed; Showing its Contradictions, Absurdities, and Immoralities 2011-10-12T02:00:53.650Z They usually wear the lineament, if not the cloven foot of the arch-fiend. Monks, Popes, and their Political Intrigues 2011-10-12T02:00:43.383Z Sometimes I am all wound about with adders, who, with their cloven tongues, hiss me to madness.—Ha! yonder stands one of his spirits, sent to torment me. Dryden's Works Vol. 3 (of 18) Sir Martin Mar-All; The Tempest; An Evening's Love; Tyrannic Love 2011-10-08T02:00:22.420Z Saw ye never Friar Rush Painted on a cloth, with a side-long cow's tail, And crooked cloven feet, and many a hooked nail? Gammer Gurton's Needle 2011-09-24T02:00:15.643Z In the cloven blossom a mother and her small baby sit enthroned while an angel with wings like a “White Admiral” stands entranced before the happy child. William Blake A Study of His Life and Art Work 2011-09-13T02:00:35.943Z Christ has cloven the rock, “the Breaker has gone up before” us, and by His resurrection alone we have the knowledge which is certitude, and the hope which is confidence, of an inheritance in light. The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon 2011-09-09T02:01:07.157Z They often conceived that they saw His Satanic Majesty, with all his distinguishing appendages, such as his cloven foot, his sooty aspect, his peculiar horns, and sulphurous odor. Monks, Popes, and their Political Intrigues 2011-10-12T02:00:43.383Z Ah! your villainies are known to me, nor can you hide the cloven hoof beneath the edge of Virtue’s robe.” The Girls of Central High on the Stage The Play That Took The Prize 2011-09-05T02:00:21.083Z I think I am little better, my scalp is cloven to the brain. Gammer Gurton's Needle 2011-09-24T02:00:15.643Z "That," added the rabbi, "is why all Jewish children have cloven upper lips." Stories and Pictures 2011-08-30T02:00:28.080Z The black mountain wall that rings us poor mortals round about is cloven in one place only. The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon 2011-09-09T02:01:07.157Z Kerry of their living in caves in the mountains, and a lad whom I met near the Gap of Dunloe described them as having cloven feet and black hair. Ulster Folklore 2011-08-25T02:00:26.683Z “He ought to have worn boots and so hidden his ‘cloven hoof.’ The Girls of Central High on the Stage The Play That Took The Prize 2011-09-05T02:00:21.083Z His vision was not that of the enthusiast; his was no Pentecostal tongue—cloven and aflame. Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume II (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings 2011-08-16T02:00:39.793Z They had not sailed a league, a league, 50 A league but barely three, Until she espied his cloven foot, And she wept right bitterlie. English and Scottish Ballads, Volume I (of 8) 2011-08-12T02:00:17.607Z Mr. Blatchford on the match-tax:— "In this insidious manipulation of the thin end of the Tory wedge do we not perceive the cloven hoof of the serpent casting its shadow before?" Punch, or The London Charivari, Vol. 150, April 19, 1916 2011-08-07T02:00:07.573Z The little pointed cloven feet are as hard and sharp as horns and will tear the flesh like claws. Jock of the Bushveld 2011-08-04T02:00:24.987Z ‘Nor can you hide the cloven hoof beneath the edge of Virtue’s robe.’ The Girls of Central High on the Stage The Play That Took The Prize 2011-09-05T02:00:21.083Z Many churchmen pictured this Plantagenet with horns and a cloven foot, and muttered references to the old fairy tale about a certain ancestor of the family who married a witch. In the Days of the Guild 2011-08-03T02:00:12.687Z It is in the tumuli of Celtic peoples where we find the cloven skulls of slaves. The Hearts of Men 2011-07-19T02:00:20.477Z He has got his foot—perhaps you may think it a cloven one, but, such as it is, he seems to have got it pretty firmly planted within the paling of Mowbray Park. The Vicar of Wrexhill 2011-07-13T02:00:20.177Z In its undivided influence, yet in its already cloven form, ever perfect in its detached pieces it is ever living in its broken body. Revisiting the Earth 2011-07-12T02:00:36.337Z It's—'Crown us a beaker with sherry, To drink to the doxy's heels; A tankard of wine o' the berry, To lips like a cloven peel's. Kentucky Poems 2011-07-11T02:00:07.060Z He now rushed frantically upon the Marsk, but the warlike chief was his superior in swordsmanship, and after a short but desperate fight the Jutlander fell, with his skull cloven, to the ground. King Eric and the Outlaws, Vol. 1 or, the Throne, the Church, and the People in the Thirteenth Century. Vol. I. 2011-07-07T02:00:29.790Z "She eats with a cloven tongue -- it is the mark of Cain," Shea said, describing Thomas. Perennial champion again wins hot dog eating contest 2011-07-04T20:14:14Z And though he expected better luck from Ralph, yet he quickly discovered in him also certain very dismal symptoms of the cloven foot. The Life of Benjamin Franklin With Many Choice Anecdotes and admirable sayings of this great man never before published by any of his biographers 2011-06-15T02:00:17.903Z Here he suddenly pointed the weapon at his forehead, fired, and fell headlong; some blood flowed from the cloven skull, and he breathed yet once, and then no more. Titan: A Romance Vol. II (of 2) 2011-06-14T02:00:26.670Z O feet," he said, "O sweet thighs, deep reins, round croup, cloven fig, hips, shoulders, breasts, mobile neck; O all ye things that charm me, warm hands, expert movements, active tongue! Ancient Manners Also Known As Aphrodite 2011-06-13T02:00:23.863Z You have ears like we have," said they, "and we want to see if you have cloven feet like an antelope. Lost in the Jungle Narrated for Young People 2011-06-07T02:00:11.183Z And then she turned into the room Her soul was cloven through with doom, Treading the softness and the gloom Of Asia's silk and Persia's wool, And China's magical perfume. Songs and Satires 2011-05-20T02:00:37.050Z Only he dragged kisses from the mouth he had desired so long; the eyes he had looked away from; the curving, cloven chin; the throat that shone in the darkness like a moony pearl. Poppy The Story of a South African Girl 2011-05-20T02:00:25.147Z They passed over the Forum by the Via Sacra to the Colosseum, whose lofty, cloven forehead looked down pale under the moonlight. Titan: A Romance Vol. II (of 2) 2011-06-14T02:00:26.670Z Petals five, their disk cloven half way down; the crown with two teeth. Lachesis Lapponica A Tour in Lapland 2011-05-10T02:01:00.460Z A spring and a blow, and the hindmost Norman is cloven to the waist, and drops with scarce a groan. The Last of the Vikings 2011-05-09T02:00:04.200Z Chaos is cloven into separate elements; air divides from water, and earth releases fire. William Blake A Critical Essay 2011-05-04T02:00:18.110Z Oh, the rumble of those hoofs, those sharp, cloven, blind, merciless hoofs, that would mangle and tear and trample! I Conquered 2011-04-15T02:00:19.800Z A vast pile of rocks, through which a way seemed to have been cloven by the thunderbolt, opened on a glen as desolate as if it had never been trodden by the foot of man. Tales from Blackwood Volume 9 2011-04-15T02:00:18.057Z The dorsal fin consists of thirteen rays, of which the first is by far the largest, and the last cloven or interrupted. Lachesis Lapponica A Tour in Lapland 2011-05-10T02:01:00.460Z Their form was principally human, but with a short goat's tail, pointed ears, and projecting horns; sometimes also with cloven feet. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 3: Estremoz to Felspar 2011-04-14T02:00:59.373Z Upon it lay a dead man in a suit of rusty iron armor, from the cloven plates of which emerged a-398- living child, naked and gilt with glistering leaf of gold. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z There on the muddy beach—stamped with long lines of little cloven hoof prints—stood a handsome buck, with polished antlers, dancing about as if too full of energy to stand still. The Adventures of Fleetfoot and Her Fawns 2011-04-03T02:00:18.337Z By his repugnance to these sacred plants, his mistress discovered the cloven foot. Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales A Sequel to the Nursery Rhymes of England 2011-04-01T02:00:34.340Z What is here called Taim is a sort of salmon, two spans in length at most, the tail scarcely cloven, the mouth not hooked, but otherwise like the common kind. Lachesis Lapponica A Tour in Lapland 2011-05-10T02:01:00.460Z A short time, however, and the impostor began to show the cloven hoof. Claimants to Royalty 2011-03-31T02:00:20.557Z Whether as abolition, liberty, free-soil or republican, the party has always shown the cloven hoof, and the best efforts of its more considerate friends have never been able to cover the deformity. History of American Abolitionism 2011-03-28T02:00:23.663Z You are certain that you smell brimstone, and expect to see cloven hoofs. One Year Abroad 2011-03-27T02:00:18.457Z It was fortunate for that chief that his helmet was of excellent temper, otherwise he must have been cloven to the chin. Tales from Blackwood Volume 5 2011-03-13T03:00:21.980Z But now, you are twain, you are cloven apart, Flesh of his flesh, but heart of my heart; And deep in one is the bitter root, And sweet for one is the lifelong flower. Poems & Ballads (First Series) 2011-02-28T03:00:30.587Z No doubt the lines are crude, but Boyle goes too far with his “cloven hoof,” his “effluvia of social corruption,” his “thick miasma.” Philip Massinger 2011-02-25T03:01:15.270Z A light evening breeze was bending the meadow grass of the field which his footpath had cloven, and from the hedge by his side came the faint perfume of hawthorn blossom. The Wicked Marquis 2011-02-24T03:01:06.123Z The meeting continued on through the night; the spirit of prophecy was poured out upon the assembly, and cloven tongues of fire sat upon them; for they were seen by many of the congregation. Life of Heber C. Kimball, an Apostle The Father and Founder of the British Mission 2011-02-21T03:00:08.060Z For by this time our little republic was cloven in twain. Mrs. Fitz 2011-02-14T03:00:38.317Z I wish you were stricken of thunder And burnt with a bright flame through, Consumed and cloven in sunder, I dead at your feet like you. Poems & Ballads (First Series) 2011-02-28T03:00:30.587Z Paralleling the left fork of the cloven creek, looping the point and fording the right fork, was a mountain road. A Maid of the Kentucky Hills 2011-02-04T03:00:15.877Z Who knows but Beelzebub, the wicked one with the cloven hoofs, is waiting for me outside? The Pocket Bible or Christian the Printer A Tale of the Sixteenth Century 2011-01-27T03:00:40.940Z It wasn't a hare's foot, for that makes hardly any mark in the snow; nor the cloven hoof of the wild boar, nor a wolf's paw either; it was a deep hole. The Count of Nideck adapted from the French of Erckmann-Chartrian 2011-01-20T03:00:07.967Z In the twinkling of an eye two of the enemy lay dead, the one cloven to the chin, the other headless. Khaled, A Tale of Arabia 2011-01-16T03:00:23.317Z Her dread of the morning grew into the suspicion that her great fortune had a cloven hoof. The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z Ventral fins of nine rays each, one of them long and simple, the rest, as in the foregoing, gradually shorter, the last being cloven. Lachesis Lapponica A Tour in Lapland, Volume 1 2010-12-31T03:00:11.350Z Two sorts of hoof-marks there were; one cloven, the other whole and shod. The Vee-Boers A Tale of Adventure in Southern Africa 2010-12-20T17:12:24.303Z The more he shows the cloven hoof the better.” The Mynns' Mystery 2010-12-20T17:12:18.180Z His face turned as black as soot; a long tail grew out of his leafy coat, while cloven feet replaced the beetle-wing pumps. British Goblins Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions 2010-12-20T17:11:57.810Z The law of the United States has been cloven down; the law of Massachusetts cloven down. Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons, Volume 3 (of 3) 2010-12-20T17:11:42.357Z Upper lip cloven as far as the nostrils; lower very short. Lachesis Lapponica A Tour in Lapland, Volume 1 2010-12-31T03:00:11.350Z Forbiddingly known as the Hell of the North, Paris-Roubaix is a 6½-hour slog over dusty cobbled roads in the French countryside better fit for cloven hooves than rubber tires. Phil Lifts Masters Out of the Woods 2010-04-12T01:20:00Z The ice of many glaciers is laminated, and when weathered may be cloven into thin plates. The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. The shaggy coat, the horns and cloven feet, are certainly peculiar to the classical treatment of this supernatural being. A Cursory History of Swearing Since then, since then My empire too is cloven, and cloven in five. The Formation of Christendom, Volume VII The tip of the standard, as well as of the keel, which was cloven, had a purplish hue. Lachesis Lapponica A Tour in Lapland, Volume 1 2010-12-31T03:00:11.350Z With cloven feet and horned front who roves With choirs of nymphs, amid the echoing groves; He joins in active dance the virgin throng, To Pan, the pastoral god, they raise the song. Heathen Mythology The particles of certain crystalline bodies are found to arrange themselves in layers, like courses of atomic masonry, and along these layers such crystals may be easily cloven into the thinnest lamin�. The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. Thus, he states that most creatures furnished with them have cloven hoofs, and that no single-hoofed animal has two horns. Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History As well," replied young Walter, haughtily, "might you vend your threats upon the rocks that compose those cloven mountains, as waste them upon me. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 7 The horns of the female are upright, or slightly bent backward, furnished with one or two branches in front near the base, the summit sometimes undivided, sometimes cloven. Lachesis Lapponica A Tour in Lapland, Volume 1 2010-12-31T03:00:11.350Z I saw one gigantic corpse, with the head and neck cloven through the steel cab to the very brisket. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 5 Heavy spar may also be cloven in three directions, but one cleavage is much more perfect, or more eminent as it is sometimes called, than the rest. The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. And cloven the Prince assuredly would have been, for Sainton had drawn his long, straight sword, had not the mahout suddenly wheeled the elephant against the gate, upsetting the snorting Arab by the maneuver. The Great Mogul "Of course," continued Popkiss with a mitigating chuckle, "he can't help showing the cloven hoof sometimes, they say; but he's not so black as he is painted." A Poached Peerage But the cloven foot always appears before you are done with him. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 368, June 1846 At intervals, a cloven foot would be seen, festering wounds would be irritated and no balm was found to restore them to perfect soundness. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution Vast plates of ice moreover often stood out midway between the walls of the chasms, as if cloven from the glacier and afterwards set on edge. The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. At some point of that reservoir a channel had been opened through and under the cloven strata of the rock, making a natural aqueduct. The Red Mustang Glooms of the live-oaks, beautiful-braided and woven With intricate shades of the vines that, myriad cloven, Clamber the forks of the multiform boughs. Rodman the Keeper Southern Sketches And indeed Jan did not fare much better with the second, which also showed the cloven foot. Barbarossa and Other Tales Thousands quit their homes and families to have their skulls cloven by the Turks, or to be broiled by the glowing heats of Palestine. The Progressionists, and Angela. Some crystals possess one such direction in which they may be cloven, some several; some, on the other hand, may be split with different facility in different directions. The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. Victoria had just time to see the head, perfectly round, short-haired, white faced, cloven by a turned up black moustache, when it vanished once more. A Bed of Roses Penthesilea nor all the cloven knights the poets treat of, yclad in mightiest petticoats, did her excel for gallant deeds, and with her honour still preserved her freedom. A Select Collection of Old English Plays Volume 14 of 15 She would glare at Mr. Cordal's slippers as if convinced that the cloven hoof were inside. Patricia Brent, Spinster Suddenly the waves are cloven asunder, and the mother of Nature and of Wäinämöinen appears, to comfort her son, like Thetis from the deep. Custom and Myth New Edition Often is the mountain pine-tree Cut to pieces into torches, 200 And the juniper on heathland, Into posts is often cloven. Kalevala, The Land of the Heroes, Volume Two It was not when Russia was little better than a military despotism under the Emperor Nicholas, that Nihilism showed its cloven foot. Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia The gigantic reeds Lie cloven and trampled like puniest weeds,— The lion leaps on the drinker's neck with a roar! Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15 And he clove my breast asunder with a sword, and he plucked out my trembling heart, and in my cloven breast he set a burning coal of fire. An Outline of Russian Literature He abandons England for a while, and now we get a glimpse of the cloven hoof in a casual reference to Hindus and Mahometans. From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel No, M'lissy; don't poke out your raw and cloven tongue at me!— Rubaiyat of Doc Sifers He screamed a second time before cloven hooves slashed across his body. Thy Rocks and Rills The facing of the cloven surfaces was done by hammer-dressing, using rounded masses of quartzose hornstone, held in the hand without any handle. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" After that day of cloven tongues a new light is spreading over the world, and objects rise into view which had been hidden from the eyes of the nations of antiquity. Lectures on The Science of Language But the cloven hoof is shown by the omission from the patent of the usual legitimacy clause. The Wives of Henry the Eighth and the Parts They Played in History Still through the cloven skies they come, With peaceful wings unfurled; And still their heavenly music floats O'er all the weary world: Above its sad and lonely plains They bend on hovering wing. The Bible Story When they saw death approaching on cloven hooves, two of them cleared the fence. Thy Rocks and Rills For some time past my studious lucubrations had caused him anxiety, and perhaps he had caught sight of my cloven foot. Anatole France The Revolt of the Angels Two of them were stretched on the ground with cloven skulls, and then the last survivor turned and ran. The Golden Amazons of Venus Among them was his Satanic Majesty, with the same old cloven feet, lashing tail, and black skin. Eight days in New Orleans in February, 1847 The dead lay in piles, in one and twos and fours, their brains splashed on the walls, their guts smeared across the floor, their skulls cloven and their bodies rent. The Buttoned Sky He is all in red, wears a pointed beard and has a cloven foot. The Automobile Girls at Chicago or, Winning Out Against Heavy Odds In the Abbey were several demons similar to myself whom I recognised by their cloven feet and by their kindly speech. Anatole France The Revolt of the Angels From these answers they conclude that the leg of the table is connected with a cloven foot. Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) The ancient images," says Archbishop Whately, "represent him as partly in the human form, and partly in that of a goat, with horns and cloven hoofs. The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition A Slavonic legend tells us that the moon, king of night, and husband of the sun, faithlessly loved the morning star, wherefore he was cloven through in punishment, as we see him in the sky. Folk-lore of Shakespeare Let us hope that the gentleman with the cloven foot may drive his car up the chimney flue and fly away. The Automobile Girls at Chicago or, Winning Out Against Heavy Odds I hid my cloven feet under a robe and became a monk in this Abbey, where I lived peacefully, sheltered from the men at arms who to friend or foe alike showed themselves equally exacting. Anatole France The Revolt of the Angels He was like a black man with cloven feet, riding on a black horse, and Alice fell down and worshipped him, as she had covenanted. Witch Stories He raked it out of the vegetable mold, and lo! a cloven skull, with an Indian tomahawk buried deep in it, lay before him. The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 1 March 1906 Dr. Johnson gives this explanation: “I look towards his feet to see if, according to the common opinion, his feet be cloven.” Folk-lore of Shakespeare For I must needs caress the baby, and to the music of its glad laugh you will kick your cloven hoof, you superannuated old fiend. Belford's Magazine, Vol 2, December 1888 Glands, like those of the goat, hung on my neck, a goat's tail moved with my moving loins, and my hairy legs ended in a black cloven hoof which beat the ground in cadence. Anatole France The Revolt of the Angels The devil wore sometimes boots and sometimes shoes, but ever his feet were cloven, and ever his colour black. Witch Stories Perhaps his dreams will be rudely disturbed by the thunder of a thousand hoofs, as his cattle, becoming frightened at some noise, have stampeded, and the grass fairly pops beneath their cloven feet. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 1 Their eyes were fixed upon a cloven slope Down whose descent still other forms a-fresh From earth were drawn, by the unceasing mesh Of Time to their irrevocable end. Song-Surf He demonstrated how he had first cloven the Albanian horseman to the very saddle-bow, and then torn his horse away from under him by main force. Pretty Michal As the Dawn springs fully armed from the forehead of the cloven Sky, so the eye first discerns the blue of heaven, as the first faint arch of light is seen in the East. Bible Myths and their Parallels in other Religions Being a Comparison of the Old and New Testament Myths and Miracles with those of the Heathen Nations of Antiquity Considering also their Origin and Meaning Another time, she said, there was a meeting, when the devil was dressed in “black cloathes and a blew band, and white hand cuffs, with hoggers on his feet, and that his feet were cloven.” Witch Stories Spells around remembrance woven, Holy sorrow's trembling gladness, Tone-like have our spirits cloven, Cooled their glowing blood. Henry of Ofterdingen: A Romance. But learn to swim, trim your bark, and the wave which drowned it will be cloven by it, and carry it, like its own foam, a plume and a power. The Voice of Science in Nineteenth-Century Literature Representative Prose and Verse There was no cloven foot peeping out anywhere. The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. Down came the heavy axe; and everyone thought that the dwarf must be cloven asunder from head to foot. Yellow-Cap and Other Fairy-Stories For Children This writer has a great sympathy for devil-lore, and many of his characters show the cloven hoof. Devil Stories An Anthology Rough Satyrs danced, and Fauns with cloven heel. Minor Poems by Milton Now, this is unrighteous judgment; for even a cow should be looked at fairly, even if she does show the cloven hoof. Belford's Magazine, Volume II, No. 8, January, 1889 Give answer from afar, ye mist-shrouded summits, and ye clouds cloven by the eagle's wing! Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) They are not cloven back continually into new cliffs, as our chalk shores are by the sea; otherwise, one might attribute their first existence to the force of streams. Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) No, the snow displayed no imprint of cloven hoofs. In the Brooding Wild Its summit is cloven into two peaks; and in the hollow between, an ancient tradition affirms that Noah's ark rested on the subsidence of the Great Flood. Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century If philosophy is indulged in, one quickly detects the bald head and wrinkled brow; if it is religion, the cloven hoof or wicked tail of Satan betrays the author. Belford's Magazine, Volume II, No. 8, January, 1889 However, poor Jervais lost his place for gossiping; and his master insists upon it to this day, that it was the devil, and that he knew him by his broad eyes and cloven feet. Apparitions; or, The Mystery of Ghosts, Hobgoblins, and Haunted Houses Developed Often cloven through or thrust aside, the Saxon Briton never abandons this. The Trial of Theodore Parker For the "Misdemeanor" of a Speech in Faneuil Hall against Kidnapping, before the Circuit Court of the United States, at Boston, April 3, 1855, with the Defence Your shoe’s not cloven, sir; you are whole hoofed.” English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times. Dead—horribly butchered! her bright hair stiff with blood, the fair head that had so often rested on his breast crushed, cloven, mangled with the brutal ax! Stories by American Authors, Volume 3 I noticed it only because new to me—nor perceived any peculiar beauty in its cloven flower. Frondes Agrestes Readings in 'Modern Painters' A friend of mine having been to a masqued ball in a domino, I prepared the stratagem, by making a head-piece to the dress, with horns, false legs, cloven feet, and a tail. Apparitions; or, The Mystery of Ghosts, Hobgoblins, and Haunted Houses Developed Of a sudden he was aware of something dark against the stars that tossed, and a light below, and a brightness of the cloven sea; and he heard speech of men. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 17 (of 25) He uttered a stifled exclamation and drawing up one foot fitted the cloven hoof against the sole of his moccasin. With Ethan Allen at Ticonderoga Already they must spy the cloven hoof, since with all your pretended eagerness for the family honour, you take a pleasure to degrade it in my person.” The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. XII (of 25) It represents mystically the cloven tongues of fire which lighted on the heads of the Apostles on the Day of Pentecost. The American Church Dictionary and Cyclopedia It was a monster on all fours, with cloven feet, horns on its head, and a long tail trailing after it as it moved along. Apparitions; or, The Mystery of Ghosts, Hobgoblins, and Haunted Houses Developed Near the spot where I lay there was a cloven rock overspread with brambles and slae-bushes. Ringan Gilhaize or The Covenanters He might have stood upon it–walked upon it, indeed; and the impression left by this cloven hoof would naturally lead one to suppose that a big deer had been that way! With Ethan Allen at Ticonderoga And when he was home, there lay his uncle smitten 286 on the head, and his father pierced through the heart, and his mother cloven through the midst. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XXI The ecclesiastical color is red as symbolical of the "cloven tongues like as of fire," in which form the Holy Ghost lighted on the head of each of the Apostles. The American Church Dictionary and Cyclopedia In shape it is very similar to the representations we see in pictures of the "cloven tongues." Notes and Queries, Number 232, April 8, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc My word, Argyle, thou's got a tongue in thy pen neb! but this was ne'er indited by him; the cloven foot of the heretical Carmelite is manifest in every line. Ringan Gilhaize or The Covenanters But they, that were one flesh, were cloven in two. Collected Poems Volume Two Talleyrand displays the cloven foot, by refusing to recognise the junction of all the Netherlands. Before and after Waterloo Letters from Edward Stanley, sometime Bishop of Norwich (1802; 1814; 1816) Stand thou as stands that lightning-riven tree That lords the cloven clouds of gray Yosemite. The Galaxy Vol. 23, No. 1 I'm tramping thro the mountains, With the clouds for my companions, Soft clouds that float and cling From crag to cloven crag. Many Gods The great devil, dancing forward, brandishing his key, roared that these reverend men should kneel to him; he held out a cloven foot and bade them kiss it. The Fifth Queen And How She Came to Court Our dreams have woven Truths that out-face the burning sun: The lightnings, that we dreamed, have cloven Time, space, and linked all lands in one! Collected Poems Volume Two When the rabbit came out she was trapped; her little cloven feet could not scale such unbroken steeps. Lords of the Housetops Thirteen Cat Tales Scarcely as tall as himself; the big, rounded, mouselike ears, and the flat, cloven pads that could carry her so swiftly over the sandy Martian flatlands. Native Son An enormous canyon cloven in the earth, filled with the slowly settling cloud of dust. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, November, 1930 But the exertion far exceeded his strength, and the same blow that an hour before would have cloven through buckler and hauberk, now fell almost harmless upon the shield of El Feri. Gómez Arias Or, The Moors of the Alpujarras, A Spanish Historical Romance. I noticed it only because new to me, nor perceived any peculiar beauty in its cloven flower. Modern Painters Volume II (of V) Despite the Oriental sandal which the cunning shoemaker had fashioned, his fellow-Jews saw the cloven hoof. Dreamers of the Ghetto Black paths were cloven through the midst of the jungle. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, May, 1930 Not from the sands or cloven rocks, Thou rapid Arve! thy waters flow; Nor earth, within her bosom, locks Thy dark unfathomed wells below. Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant Household Edition And there appeared unto them cloven | tongues, like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them: and | they were all filled with the Holy Ghost. The Book of Common Prayer and The Scottish Liturgy Ariel asked nothing but freedom after ages pining in a cloven pine.... Mummery A Tale of Three Idealists The cloven hoof of the Socialist peeps out from a little group. Dreamers of the Ghetto Ordinary feet are long feet, short feet, broad feet, splay feet, club feet, and bumble feet, to which may be added cloven feet in the case of certain animals, and an “old gentleman.” The Comic Latin Grammar A new and facetious introduction to the Latin tongue A fire blazed brightly on the hearth, and far Was wafted o'er the isle the fragrant smoke Of cloven cedar, burning in the flame, And cypress-wood. Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant Household Edition And there appeared unto them cloven | tongues, like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them: and they | were all filled with the Holy Ghost. The Book of Common Prayer and The Scottish Liturgy Two similar useless toes to-day hang at the back of the foot of the cow, which is now walking upon her two toes, which give her the appearance of carrying a cloven hoof. The Meaning of Evolution “He is dead,” said they; “for just now a very huge beast with four great feet came to the pool and crushed him with his cloven heel.” Boys and Girls Bookshelf (Vol 2 of 17) Folk-Lore, Fables, And Fairy Tales His decapitated trunks, cloven heads, smoking hearts, arms still fighting though severed from their bodies, are simply a debauch of grim humor. Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History He drew a pistol from his belt; but before he could even put himself in an attitude of defence, he was cloven to the teeth by a blow of Allerton's cutlass. An Old Sailor's Yarns Mercy on my soul! did I see the wicked players?—Mayhap that 'ere Darby that I liked so was the old serpent himself, and had his cloven foot in his pocket. The Contrast It portrays Swift in a priest's vestments that barely conceal a cloven hoof. A Letter From a Clergyman to his Friend, with an Account of the Travels of Captain Lemuel Gulliver He had no boots on, and what I seized was a cloven hoof. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland The party having the greatest number of broken disks, indicative of cloven skulls, were declared the losers. Child-Life in Japan and Japanese Child Stories For this matchless genius was wrecked and ruined not by the wiles of him of the cloven foot, but by temptations that have been called "godlike." A Man's Value to Society Studies in Self Culture and Character A queer, explosive sound, and a jet of flame, and—there stood the devil, all in red, forked tail, horns, and cloven hoof! Operas Every Child Should Know Descriptions of the Text and Music of Some of the Most Famous Masterpieces And by the cloven foot," cried this weird personage, "you are right, my master! A Winter Amid the Ice and Other Thrilling Stories The more she sings her incantations, we “Rise more from earth erect; the bristles fall; “And the wide fissure leaves our cloven feet; “Our shoulders form again; and arms beneath “Are shap'd. The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II He is like a horse, with cloven hoofs, and a short tail. The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus During the Reigns of the Emperors Constantius, Julian, Jovianus, Valentinian, and Valens “And lo! cloven in twain at a stroke Fell King Helge’s gold shield from its pillar of oak: At the clang of the blow, The live started above, the dead started below.” Myths of the Norsemen From the Eddas and Sagas That Power wuz at Pentecost in cloven tongues of flame, and strange voices and words that no man could utter. Samantha at Coney Island and a Thousand Other Islands He renders their tongues fiery and cloven, and inflames them with love unto boldness in preaching Christ—unto free and fearless utterance. Epistle Sermons, Vol. II Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost In all words with a double form, as spake and spoke, brake and broke, clave and clove, the participle follows the form in o, as spoken, broken, cloven. A Handbook of the English Language Some again had their heads cloven in half with blows of swords, so that one side of their heads hung down on each shoulder in a most horrible manner. The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus During the Reigns of the Emperors Constantius, Julian, Jovianus, Valentinian, and Valens The good mule's hoof had cloven the skull. Our Home in the Silver West A Story of Struggle and Adventure That has given to the world a Washington, a Toussant, a Bozzaris—a loyalty that will ever stand with cloven helmet and crimson battle-ax in the van of civilization and progress. Shadow and Light An Autobiography with Reminiscences of the Last and Present Century Different interpretations have been given to the words just quoted; but until abolitionism set its cloven foot upon the Bible, such violence had not been done to its sacred pages. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject The cloven feet of Pan are on the hill, His reedy musics sadder than all rains, Since none will seek—pipe ever as he will— Those unanointed and neglected fanes. Ships in Harbour In vain did they point to the progress of the slave power, and warn the people that their own liberties were being cloven down. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II This space resembled a cleft, as if the two blocks had once been united, and some terrible force had cloven them asunder. The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains “Horns, belike—and cloven feet—and a long tail?” quoth Jack. In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers The Buck stepped on it, and it slipped in between the two halves of his cloven hoof, and cut deep into his foot. Forest Neighbors Life Stories of Wild Animals From the waist down he was covered with shaggy hair like a goat's, and instead of feet he had cloven hooves. David and the Phoenix They bent up the leg of the ox and rested his cloven hoof in the groove, and shod each part with a piece of iron. Ben Comee A Tale of Rogers's Rangers, 1758-59 Lord Grimsby was trying to recall if ever he had heard of the devil guising himself as a young red-headed girl, covering himself, from horned head to cloven hoof, in azure velvet. Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 But, almost immediately, the metaphorical cloven foot and false dice appear. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century I imagine she wanted to ask me several things yet,—whether I had cloven feet, for instance, and lived on spiders; but she didn’t. The Dominant Dollar Now did he lead me where the cloven steep Among the rocks and solitary crags Looms pathless and breaks sheer above a vale. Romance of Roman Villas (The Renaissance) Goats sit up and strike with their cloven hoofs, and butt and stab with their horns. In Court and Kampong Being Tales and Sketches of Native Life in the Malay Peninsula But the cloven hoof appeared when he assured the king that the plan which he defended would fail, and would involve France in ruin. Lectures on the French Revolution Stained with blood—the bonnet itself cloven in twain with a blow from hatchet or axe. Border Ghost Stories They had not sail'd a league, a league, A league but barely three, Until she espied his cloven foot, And she wept right bitterly. The Children's Garland from the Best Poets You might be sure there was a British cloven foot in it somewhere. The Critical Period of American History The Natural Bridge, the most sublime of nature’s works, . . . is on the ascent of a hill, which seems to have been cloven through its length by some great convulsion. Southern Literature From 1579-1895 A comprehensive review, with copious extracts and criticisms for the use of schools and the general reader The cloven hoof of party preference appears in a few places. Lectures on the French Revolution Anyhow, the pair of trousers, that cloven pennon, ought to have floated in fancy over my head as the banner of Europe or the League of Nations. What I Saw in America The sea washes away the blood that has flowed from the cloven skulls. Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen The sea washes away the blood that has flowed from cloven skulls. What the Moon Saw: and Other Tales There is something that looks to them�so they are tempted to express it�like the cloven hoof of a most Satyrish cunning, about his attitude to certain things. Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions This is an old explanation; but your correspondent does not appear to be aware that "cloven" has been rejected by high classical authority, as not being a correct interpretation of the word διαμεριζόμεναι. Notes and Queries, Number 76, April 12, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc In a long tête-à-tête he makes his clumsy court, airs his cheap philosophy, and lets by no means the mere suggestion of a cloven foot appear, on the subject of virtue and vice. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 He had cloven feet, and his coat, if it was a coat, seemed to be made in the shape of wings. Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends And the descent of the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost, was manifested by “cloven tongues, like as of fire,” which “sat upon each of them,” Acts 2:3. A Brief Commentary on the Apocalypse Will you turn away in horror if you see a wretched creature hobbling with cloven hoof up the scented lane of your village? The Jessica Letters: An Editor's Romance A mountain near the neighboring Gulf of Caracas was split in twain, and has since remained in its cloven condition. Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror This has small cloven feet, but there are only two legs, also! Girl Scouts in the Adirondacks I marvel not so much that in the Ganges they have the greatest of all rivers which Lord of all the waters of the East Is cloven and parted in a hundred streams. The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura He had bat-like wings, a tail, and on one foot was a cloven hoof. The Witch of Salem or Credulity Run Mad And no challenge, however ingenious, could provoke you into displaying the cloven hoof of your “higher nature.” The Jessica Letters: An Editor's Romance Man, we are taught, is prone to evil— That does not vindicate the devil: Besides, man, in his own behoof, Contrives to hide the cloven hoof. Fables of John Gay (Somewhat Altered) Then an adjournment to a barn, where tallow candles were stuck into cloven sticks, and hollowed potatoes served for lamps. A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time By rights we should have grown cloven hooves and salmon scales, but we always have a pleasant feeling of repletion after meals and have no cause for real complaint. Stand By! Naval Sketches and Stories Seizing a firebrand, he searched for the print of a cloven hoof. The Witch of Salem or Credulity Run Mad The shouting Pawnees, who were some distance behind, supposed his skull had been cloven by the fiercely-driven tomahawk, but it was not so. Footprints in the Forest His position was precisely that of one who was on the very point of launching the deadly missile which would have cloven the skull, as though made of card-board. Camp-fire and Wigwam Then came the dancing in the barn, lighted by candles in cloven sticks, and lanterns of turnips that were scooped out hollow. A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time But, unhappy, won no honour, Mildness brought me only sorrow, Had I tossed away the torrents, Or the rocks in twain had cloven. Kalevala, Volume I (of 2) The Land of the Heroes To be on familiar terms with one's servants shows the cloven foot of vulgarity. The Complete Bachelor Manners for Men The Pawnee could not have seen it coming when his skull was cloven in twain, and, with a half-suppressed shriek, he went to the earth, every spark of life driven from his body. Footprints in the Forest I saw no woman's dainty shoe—but a hairy paw, with long nails—was it cloven? Fifty-Two Stories For Girls Here the mountain appeared to be cloven in two—a narrow channel running at the bottom of the gorge and uniting Loch Tulloch to another larger loch beyond. Norman Vallery or, How to Overcome Evil with Good Earth was almost sunk to Mana, And the hills of sand were cloven. Kalevala, Volume I (of 2) The Land of the Heroes A day or two after the massacre, a Wesleyan clergyman went out from Nelson to Wairau and reverently buried those ghastly bodies with the cloven skulls. History of Australia and New Zealand From 1606 to 1890 He abuses her roundly and tells her that his horns, tail and cloven hoof are gone out of fashion, modern culture having tabooed them; and he forbids her to address him as Satan. The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust' He had been cloven from brow to chin with the blow of a tomahawk wielded by an arm mighty like that of Hercules. The Keepers of the Trail A Story of the Great Woods The cloven foot, because of its division, is weak. Domesticated Animals Their Relation to Man and to his Advancement in Civilization Night grew black about him, and silence fell on the cloven plain of the Dale, save that below him the speech of the eddies seemed to grow greater as other voices failed. The Sundering Flood The mark of a cloven hoof is sufficient to tell the form of the teeth and jaws and vertebræ and leg-bones and thigh-bones and pelvis of the animal. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science Blades flashed, lances were splintered, helms were cloven in that terrible fight of heroes. Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race Two Indians, carrying the cloven body of a deer, passed within three hundred yards of the sleeping youth, but they saw no trail and went on to the camp with the spoils of the hunt. The Keepers of the Trail A Story of the Great Woods Probably you expected a devil with horns and a cloven foot, as the cowardly age has depicted him. Faustus his Life, Death, and Doom Nor could the print of human footsteps be seen, but only indentations left by innumerable tiny cloven feet. Honey-Bee 1911 While she excites these emotions, however he shows his cloven hoof to the rest of the household, he will not show it to her. Three Things The glittering edge struck the head of Braxton Wyatt, and he fell, cloven to the chin. The Border Watch A Story of the Great Chief's Last Stand He affirms, moreover, that every insurgent will be recognisable by his horns and cloven hoofs, which before long they will all have from the hands of the devil!” The Tiger Hunter Then the cloven foot appeared in the shape of a note-book. Humour of the North The Hyperion head of Poe was lost to the view of many by a too persistent search for the satyr's cloven foot. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Upon the cloven trees amazed, The sovereign of the Vánars gazed. The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse He studied minutely the cuts and the cloven edges of the bark, and he decided that they were at least two weeks old. The Eyes of the Woods A story of the Ancient Wilderness The devil, when he would entrap a cautious person, assumes an angel form till he carries his point, when the cloven foot appears. Wit and Wisdom of Don Quixote Then the skies were cloven, and the tree Ygdrassil was shaken in all its roots. The Children of Odin The Book of Northern Myths He is a mysterious being,—sometimes described as a kind of orang-outang, covered with long shaggy hair, and living in trees; at others, he is said to have cloven feet and a bright red face. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America No, blinded Ráma knows me not: Ne'er has he seen mine arrows shot; Ne'er marked them speeding to their aim Like snakes with cloven tongues of flame. The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse When this is done and the peasants see that the stranger has no cloven hoof but human feet they are satisfied that all is right. The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas The cloven foot of America's race prejudice will make itself manifest, and its owner will find it increasingly difficult to secure a ready purchaser for his goods. The Hindered Hand or, The Reign of the Repressionist Almost before the smoke had cleared away there was the rush of a torrent of men and horses down the hill, and the confused mob of Agpuris was cloven as though by a wedge. The Path to Honour In a moment he would be buried in the deluge of cloven hoofs and flashing tusks and torn to shreds. The Black Phantom Instead she draped its cloven foot gracefully, and turned her back on it—and imagined she was rich—from Monday till Friday. An Australian Lassie Passion plucks no berries from the myrtle and ivy, nor calls upon Arthur and Mincius, nor tells of rough satyrs and "fauns with cloven heel." Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism Before I had been a year in my new home, I was dissatisfied, for the cloven heels of the three members of the family had appeared. Down The River Buck Bradford and His Tyrants I played with her, but her young keenness detected the cloven hoof of duty. The King's Mirror Crowning the black brows were two tall white horns; tipping the black fingers were long white talons; terminating the black feet were cloven white hoofs. Cruel As The Grave And under the smashing blows of the axe wolves went down—skulls split, spines crushed, ribs caved in—a side at a stroke, and shoulders were cloven clean and deep to pink sponge lungs. The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest Yes; and but for the cloven foot, the jest, as you call it, would have succeeded, too. Under the Rose On the rolled, damp surface are the marks of the cloven feet of the swine. The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story He was no longer an Indian chief, but the fiend himself: I saw the horns upon his head; his feet were cloven hoofs! The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse If a thunderbolt had suddenly fallen before Kennedy’s feet and cloven its sulphurous passage into the abyss, he could hardly have been more startled or more alarmed. Julian Home Episcopal Mitre.—The origin of the peculiar form of the episcopal mitre is the cloven tongues which descended on the Apostles on the day of Pentecost, with the gift of the Holy Spirit. Notes and Queries, Number 69, February 22, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. Matty went on to explain, as he again thrust the "message" into the jaws of the cloven stick. Pathfinder or, The Missing Tenderfoot Then the rift screamed by him with a demoniac whine and he sank back onto his bench, gasping as the two cloven halves of the strip clanged back together again. The Dark Door Nor does he often appear without one or other of his recognised marks—the cloven foot, the goat's horns, beard, and legs, or the dragon's tail. The Superstitions of Witchcraft They therefore made the devil with his cloven feet and his long tail to whisper these cunning suggestions in the ear of the traitor. The Blot on the Kaiser's 'Scutcheon There came a cloven gleam Like a tongue of darkened flame To flicker in me. Bay A Book of Poems The cloven mist unwraps its folded canopy, and lo! the blue Pacific, boundlessly outspread, far glitters in the silvery light of morn. The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851 Before the stroke the marble split asunder as though the pick-axe of a miner had cloven it. A Book of Myths Whatever form he may assume, the cloven foot must always be visible under every disguise; and Othello looks first for that fabulous but certain sign when he scrutinises his treacherous friend. The Superstitions of Witchcraft Did he trample all over you, Francois, and is that the brand of his cloven hoof on your hunting shirt now? Boy Scouts on Hudson Bay The Disappearing Fleet They found Callum Beg, however, his tough skull cloven at last by a dragoon's sword, but there was no sign either of Evan or of his Chieftain. Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North The answer came in a savage, squealing scream and the pound of cloven hooves. Space Prison You sent me a cloven fire Out of death, and it burns in the draught Of the breathing hosts, Kindles the darkening pyre For the sorrowful, till strange brands waft Like candid ghosts. Amores Poems A vast amphitheatre, its green or gray walls cloven only by the two rivers, appears to surround the city. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873 The stride was about eight feet, the marks as of the cloven hoofs of an ox. A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell "Acknowledge, my lord, that Queen Balkis under her golden robes has little cloven feet like a goat's." Balthasar and Other Works - 1909 He turned now from the loaning to the mountain-side, passing through the heather on a little path the sheep made with their sharp cloven hoofs. The Wind Bloweth His cloven hoof, his twisted horns, his suit of black, his gleaming eyes, his limbs of flame, are but the poet's dream, the painter's color. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866 The horns are short and thick; the hoofs are cloven, and the tail is short, with a tuft of hair at the extremity. The Dog Crusoe and his Master He seemed to doubt himself, these days, that Satan wore a spiked tail and a pair of cloven hoofs. The Tyranny of Weakness Pawing with his cloven hoof, he suddenly changed his countenance from the contemplative to the wrathful. Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection The holy Koran was delivered to Mohammed neither in graven tablets of stone, nor by cloven tongues of fire, but it was engraven on Mohammed's heart and was communicated by his tongue to the Arabs. Modern Persia In this passage the old error as to the cloven hoofs and the mane is repeated. Notes and Queries, Number 58, December 7, 1850 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. “But if no one has seen him, how can you tell that he has got red face, cloven feet, and shaggy hair?” The Wanderers Adventures in the Wilds of Trinidad and Orinoco To doubt his spiked tail and cloven hoofs, would almost be heresy. The Tyranny of Weakness “Better empty insides than cloven skulls, lads,” observed Roger; “ere long we shall have a deer crossing our path near enough to bring it down without the risk of being taken at a disadvantage.” The Settlers A Tale of Virginia Quincy Market sticks to the cloven hoof, I am happy to say, notwithstanding the favorable verdict of the French savans on the flavor and nutritious properties of horse-flesh. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 And that if another such dismissal was ever again attempted, they would 'more darkly sin,' and hide the 'cloven foot,' which was so openly shown by Brady and Tait. The Story of a Dark Plot or Tyranny on the Frontier His injuries were of a very serious nature, a cutlass-blow having cloven his right shoulder until it had nearly severed the arm from the body, and his right lung was penetrated by a pike-thrust. Under the Meteor Flag Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War For this reason a second movement of importance, that of the People's High Schools, which has created in Denmark the most advanced peasant-class in existence, can achieve no social reform in lands cloven by proletarianism. The New Society For example, ungulates which do not ruminate, and have not a cloven hoof, have a more perfect dentition and more bones in the foot than the true cloven-hoofed ruminants. Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology The father is the difficulty; he has caught sight of my cloven hoof this morning, and, depend upon it, he will not trust Kitty to us often. The Village by the River The splintering ash was cloven on his limb; His limb was battered to the cannon-bone.' Rhymes of the East and Re-collected Verses That is, cloven feet and cud-chewing do not of necessity go together, and the case of the pig disproves the generalization. The Mind and Its Education Break it, before it be cloven asunder for you by the sword of Rome. The Lion's Brood But it is always easy to recognize the cloven foot. Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques In this instance the cloven foot and not the horned head was detected. Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales Then turning to Richiar, he said: "If thou hadst helped thy brother, he would not have been bound"; and his skull too was cloven with the battle-axe. Theodoric the Goth Barbarian Champion of Civilisation We are mad, because we are two lobes of the same brain, and that brain has been cloven in two. The Napoleon of Notting Hill Sergius was vaguely conscious that he had seen the praefect cloven through the head by the short, swordlike Numidian knife, his own horse seemed to collapse under him, and that was the end. The Lion's Brood He called Sir R. Peel and some other Tories "the cloven foot," which I think rather strong. The Letters of Queen Victoria : A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence between the Years 1837 and 1861 Volume 1, 1837-1843 At last a card fell to the ground, and the party who picked it up discovered that the clever player had a cloven foot. Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales Their hands were talons; their feet cloven; and serpents were wreathed round their brows instead of hair. The Infernal Marriage Little Edmund ran away, but before he reached his father's house a boy with cloven feet attacked him most unmercifully, cutting his face and ears. The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales We must have passed a slight water-shed somewhere, though I observed none; for the road gradually fell towards another region of deeply cloven Tobels, with snowy mountains beyond. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 118, August, 1867 Yet you'd think he had a cloven hoof to hear some people talk. The Yukon Trail A Tale of the North But these money-bought friends showed the cloven hoof, threatened to give him over to the military authorities to be tried for his life unless he would pay a heavy sum. Ray's Daughter A Story of Manila Now it was launched with mighty force and the savage, cloven to the chin, sank soundless to the earth; he had been smitten down by a force so sudden and absolute that he died instantly. The Young Trailers A Story of Early Kentucky "They call Terra God's Footstool; well, I'll give you one guess who uses this thing to prop his cloven hoofs on." Uller Uprising She was proceeding in the direction the broad cloven hoof marks indicated. The Forfeit The Spanish ships swung sullenly back to leeward, and the fleet of Don Cordova was cloven in twain, as though by the stroke of some gigantic sword-blade. Deeds that Won the Empire Historic Battle Scenes On the slippery tracks which traverse this western slope, bulls are often used as beasts of burden, the cloven hoofs enabling them to descend with great security. The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America One account would paint him a church deacon, frock-coated, smug; another with cloven hoof. The Henchman Such a hat is worse than a cloven foot. The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times It was better to focus their attention on the lone promontories that cut the distance and gradually grew from flat surfaces applied on the plain to solid shapes, thick-based and shadow cloven. The Emigrant Trail The great ridge, with its gloomy tree-clad heights and cloven crest, round which the mists hung in sullen vapour, was an ideal position for defence. Deeds that Won the Empire Historic Battle Scenes You saw near my burg a mountain cloven at the top into three square dales, of which one was the deepest,—these were the dints made by your hammer. The Younger Edda Also called Snorre's Edda, or The Prose Edda But when did Hell-Fire Packard ever clasp hands with the man he opposed in anything, when did he ever see a business rival without cloven hoof, horns, and spiked tail? Man to Man The glories of darkness, cloven with music of thunder, shrank As the web of the word was unwoven that spake, and the soul's tide sank. A Channel Passage and Other Poems Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne—Vol VI The cleft penetrated deep, its mouth open to the sky, its apex a chamber over which the cloven walls slanted like hands with finger tips touching in prayer. The Emigrant Trail "Michael," she whispered into his ear, with a passion which would have cloven death itself. Prisoners Fast Bound In Misery And Iron "He is dead, dear mother; for just now a very huge beast with four great feet came to the pool, and crushed him to death with his cloven heel." Aesop's Fables A New Revised Version From Original Sources A shaggy growth of hair covered his breast, while from the thighs downwards his limbs showed a thick fleece that trailed down to his cloven feet. The Well of Saint Clare No light had shone, since earth arose from sleep, So far; no fire of thought had cloven so deep. A Channel Passage and Other Poems Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne—Vol VI Thy feet are a man's—not cloven Like these, not light as a boy's: The tresses and tendrils inwoven That lure us, the lure of them cloys Thee. Poems and Ballads (Third Series) Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne—Vol. III An opened trunk, like a cloven pomegranate, displaying within rich trinkets that many a lady might covet? In the Yule-Log Glow, Book I Christmas Tales from 'Round the World I held my cloak together as well as I could, and kept myself back a little, so that if the pig showed a cloven foot behind me, the captain might not see it. Queechy, Volume I Then the holy man saw a long leg stretched out, in red hose, and inside the shoe the foot seemed cloven and like a goat's, only much larger. The Well of Saint Clare The darkness was intense, except when cloven by the lightning, while the fall of rain was drenching and furious. Ralph Granger's Fortunes The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest. Phineas Redux Or more roughly, they think the book means that man can be cloven into two creatures, good and evil. The Victorian Age in Literature The footprint of a deer shows the cloven hoof, with a difference between the buck's and the doe's. On the Trail An Outdoor Book for Girls One remarkable trait in the lode is the manner in which it splits into blocks and slabs, all the faces of the quartz pebbles being cloven in precisely the same plane. To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative Still through the cloven skies they come With peaceful wings unfurled And still their heavenly music floats O'er all the weary world. The Story of the Hymns and Tunes At last, when the ship was cloven with shot, and peppered with grape, the channel opened: in five minutes more he could put her dead before the wind. Great Sea Stories There were long, swift torpedo-boats, with two great white wings of cloven foam at their bows, and a great flourish of it in their wake, moving along under a canopy of their own black smoke. My War Experiences in Two Continents Thank the Lord, he's shown his cloven foot; I wish Mr. Minot had heard it. The Harvest of Years Their feet are not like the donkey's; they are cloven, like the cow's. Chambers's Elementary Science Readers Book I He has cloven down his victim in the midst of the councils of a people! Life and Public Services of John Quincy Adams Sixth President of the Unied States He gave the word! and still gazing round him, was steadily lowered through the cloven blue air to the deck. Great Sea Stories "Yes," she nodded, glancing at the deep cloven imprints. The Danger Mark The life of the soul cannot be arbitrarily cloven in twain; it must be held for good in all its constituent elements, or enveloped wholly and entirely in the shades of doubt. The Heavenly Father Lectures on Modern Atheism The men that outrage them have their necks inserted in cloven pillars in the Forum, and then are maltreated naked until they give up the ghost. Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form Its summit is cloven into two peaks, and in the space between an old tradition affirms that Noah’s ark landed at the subsidence of the Great Flood. The Story of Ida Pfeiffer and Her Travels in Many Lands The wilderness full of malignant savages, who be the veritable servants of Satan, closes us in, and the cloven footmark is in our midst. Giles Corey, Yeoman A Play The contemporary opinion of the French character is quaintly shown in the portrait of the Devil dressed as a French gentleman, his cloven foot discovering his identity. Forgotten Books of the American Nursery A History of the Development of the American Story-Book It appeared irregular and low, slightly diversified by small, marshy islands, similar to this we occupied, possibly cloven from the mainland by some eccentricity of current. Prisoners of Chance The Story of What Befell Geoffrey Benteen, Borderman, through His Love for a Lady of France Another thing which struck us was that all the old buffaloes that we killed had the left ear cloven, while it was entire in the young; we could never discover the reason of this. The Extermination of the American Bison A few days later, the travellers, having started at two in the morning, entered a magnificent mountain-valley, which had been cloven through the solid rock by the waters of a copious stream. The Story of Ida Pfeiffer and Her Travels in Many Lands I was almost happy; the cloven hoof had peeped so damningly out. Romance The Trade has only to wait for "That auspicious day when the velvet glove will be stripped for ever from the cloven hoof of the German Eagle." Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, May 30, 1917 When the Holy Ghost appeared before the apostles "there appeared unto them cloven tongues of fire." Artificial Light Its Influence upon Civilization It is cloven footed, its Head armed like that of a Bull, which it resembles in Fierceness, with no less strength and Agility.” The Extermination of the American Bison The binding is of red velvet, with a representation of the cloven tongues at the day of Pentecost in silver-gilt. A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three If the cause is unworthy, the cloven foot will soon appear and repudiation will ensue, which will mark him unsuccessful as a politician. The Vitalized School He swung his club with hate Against each armoured head; The men who felt its weight With cloven helmet bled.- Bearslayer A free translation from the unrhymed Latvian into English heroic verse One of the defenders lay dead, with his head cloven to his shoulders with a poleaxe, but another had taken his place. The Cornet of Horse A Tale of Marlborough's Wars Tallente passed through a plain white gate, down an avenue of dwarfed oaks, to emerge into an unexpectedly green meadow, cloven through the middle with a straight white avenue. Nobody's Man He was told he was a member of that narrow-minded caste hating art, culture, and life itself, and seeing devils with cloven hoofs and long tails in authors like Shakespeare, Byron, and Goethe. Atlantis All Guy's stout manhood was shivered within him, utterly and suddenly, as 4000 years ago the rock was cloven in Horeb, the Mount of God. Guy Livingstone; or, 'Thorough' By “cloven asunder” is meant that the former Dispensation is superseded and annulled. The Kitáb-i-Íqán Wherever it has sway in the family, in the town council, or the assembly, there the cloven foot of intolerance and persecution is seen from under the sanctimonious gown it puts on. The Cross and the Shamrock Or, How To Defend The Faith. An Irish-American Catholic Tale Of Real Life, Descriptive Of The Temptations, Sufferings, Trials, And Triumphs Of The Children Of St. Patrick In The Great Republic Of Washington. A Book For The Entertainment And Special Instructions Of The Catholic Male And Female Servants Of The United States. So it had cloven asunder, and each part was like a huge mound. Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side Is this a friend indeed; that I should sell My soul to her, give her my life and youth, Till my feet, cloven too, take hold on hell? Goblin Market, The Prince's Progress, and Other Poems Look at the helmet, with the clean, even gap in it, cloven down to the cheek-strap—the stout old Laird of Colonsay struck no fairer blow. Guy Livingstone; or, 'Thorough' That this heaven being cloven asunder is, to the discerning, an act mightier than the cleaving of the skies! The Kitáb-i-Íqán Ah, ah! my brain is cloven with a bolt of fire. Mark Hurdlestone Or, The Two Brothers On the right is a mountain cloven through, to let pass a gurgling stream; on the left, a river, over which is thrown a magnificent bridge. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2 Milton, in his own estimation, had a theme for which the cloven tongues of Pentecost were none too fiery, or the tongues of angels too melodious. Life of John Milton For here, in this unguarded moment, the cloven hoof had plainly shown itself. Four Weird Tales As He hath said: “When the heaven shall be cloven asunder.” The Kitáb-i-Íqán Every house, every estaminet, every barn, every stable was filled to its capacity with folk who had fled in despair before the cloven hoof of the advancing Hun. Private Peat The earth was thereafter cloven with a golden arrow. Myths of Babylonia and Assyria These are the pentecostal hours of our existence, when the Spirit comes as a mighty rushing wind, in cloven tongues of fire, filling the soul with God. Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series An example of this is the transformation from the hoof of a horse through the cloven hoofs of the cow to the eventual development of highly expert fingers in the monkey and man. Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson She has stood him, gaunt in his battered arms, In its haunted hollow.—"Be safe from storms," She laughed as his cloven casque she placed On his brow, and his riven shield she braced. Myth and Romance Being a Book of Verses The diabolical injustice by which your liberties are cloven down, neither God, nor angels, or just men, command you to suffer for a single moment. Walker's Appeal, with a Brief Sketch of His Life And Also Garnet's Address to the Slaves of the United States of America But to prove to you that Helen loves him, she comes, and puts me her white hand to his cloven chin. The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 06 Spurr'd through the portal flew the rapid steeds; Apart from all, and seated on the point Superior of the cloven mount, they found895 The Thunderer. The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper A deer, with still smaller rudiments at the sides of its double foot, leads in the comparative series to the camel with a cloven hoof devoid of any such relics. The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope During a deep snow, the traces of a naked human foot and of a cloven hoof were found ascending to the highest point. Notes and Queries, Number 61, December 28, 1850 If I draw devils like one another, the fault is in themselves for being so: I neither made their horns nor claws, nor cloven feet. The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07 Has he been fighting then? how came it cloven? The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 06 Not from the sands or cloven rocks, Thou rapid Arve! thy waters flow; Nor earth, within her bosom, locks Thy dark unfathomed wells below. Poems The monarchy of France is already cloven down. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844 For sea and land don’t understand, Nor skies without a frown See rights for which the one hand fights By the other cloven down. May-Day and Other Pieces There were no cloven feet like those of our bulls, and no solid feet as our horses have. Young Folks' Library, Volume XI (of 20) Wonders of Earth, Sea and Sky I met him, by the bye, in Broadway, as large as life, and as impudent as the gentleman with the cloven foot. The Unseen Bridgegroom or, Wedded For a Week The last lie in the latitude of 33°; high, wild and cloven. The Piazza Tales And there appeared cloven tongues as of fire, and it sat upon each of them; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost.' Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII Slechta then proceeds to the religious troubles, and after expressing general agreement with Erasmus, describes the three main parties into which the life of Bohemia and Moravia was cloven. The Age of Erasmus Lectures Delivered in the Universities of Oxford and London The afflatus of liberty sat upon the people as cloven tongues. History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens She throws off the cloak that hid her foulness, the boot that constrained her cloven hoof. Grey Roses In others it has acquired cloven hoofs, as in cows and swine; and whole hoofs in others, as in the horse. Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life Where are the cloven tongues of fire, where the flame which Christ died to light up? Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII "Is Spain cloven in such a manner as to want closing?" The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood It has cloven hoofs, a shaggy mane, a horn right out of its forehead and a tail like that of a pig. In the Days of Poor Richard "Peace!" cried the familiar, spurning her with his cloven foot. The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest Blessed be thou, from the date the hoofs of all animals of the bovine species came to be cloven. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 Not so do we: The cloven anger, life, hath left to wage Its flame against itself, here turned to one Self-adoration.—Ah, what comes of this? Emblems Of Love We must maintain it, unless we are cloven down by superior force. American Eloquence, Volume 3 Studies In American Political History (1897) |
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