Twigs slender; petioles not exuding a milky juice when cut; wings of fruit diverging only slightly; bark of the trunk deeply furrowed, often cleaving in long, thick plates.
Bark of trunk white, yellow or dark brown, platy or cleaving off in papery layers; fruit not in hop-like strobiles.
Then Thiodolf bestrode the fallen warrior, and men of his House were close behind him, for wisely had he fought, cleaving the press like a wedge, helping his friends that they might help him, so that they all went forward together.
Oh where the Dalcassians of cleaving swords, And where are the heroes that Brian led on, Where, oh Kincora?
Descending like a bolt from the blue, cleaving the smoke ascending from the fires of consuming materialism, the soul embraces with passionate joy the strong male body, which struggles from the grave to enfold her.
For if they say that these beings are immortal, and yet created by the supreme God, blessed but by cleaving to their Creator and not by their own power, they say what we say, whatever name they call these beings by.
The cleaving of certain gem materials, such as true topaz (which splits perfectly across the prism, parallel to its base) is easily accomplished, and it is done in much the same manner as the cleaving of diamond.
The cleaving is accomplished by making a nick or groove in the surface of the rough material at the proper point (the stone being held by a tenacious wax, in the end of a holder, placed upright in a firm support).
As the material so used frequently results from the cleaving of larger diamonds, the public has come to know these tiny roses as "chips.
He had seen the natives slaughtered like sheep in a pen, and the butchers laid bets with each other upon their dexterity in cleaving them asunder at a stroke.
Again I had to think of the Italian soul, how it is dark, cleaving to the eternal night.
And between, like a blade of the sky cleaving the earth asunder, went the pale-blue lake, cleaving mountain from mountain with the triumph of the sky.
He looked once more at the west, all a soft purple, gray-veiled with misty shadows, save over the place where the sun went out one shaft of deepest rose hue tipped with golden flame was cleaving its way toward the darkening zenith.
As they waded into it up to their waists, Mollie and Betty came swimming back, shaking the water from their eyes and cleaving the big combers with long, powerful strokes.
And "get under it" they did, cleavingthe water prettily, and in another minute were up on the other side of the big wave.
Gerald was excited by the desperate cleaving of Gudrun to Naomi.
O that we may feel the spurs, the condemning curse of a broken law, and a sense of the jaws of hell, urging us on in coming to, and cleaving to Christ.
But I mean not by Christ, his washing of his offering, that he had any filthiness cleaving to his nature or obedience; yet this I say, that so far as our guilt laid upon him could impede, so far he wiped it off by washing in these lavers.
His loathing of evil was whole-souled and absolute, and equally intense and complete was His cleaving to that which is good.
All Alexander Gordon could do was to put on the rough jerkin of a laboring man, and set to cleaving firewood in the courtyard with the scolding assistance of a maid-servant.
Alexander Gordon did so with an air of indifference, as if hunting Whigs were much the same to him as cleaving firewood.
He sees no black sky and raging sea, feels not the reeling timbers, and little hears he or heeds he the far rush of the mighty whale, which even now with open mouth is cleaving the seas after him.
A cleaving tool with handle at right angles to the blade, for splitting cask staves and shingles from the block; a frower.
Consisting of flakes or of small, loose masses; lying, or cleaving off, in flakes or layers; flakelike.
Extending horizontally from two sturdy limbs of a Cottonwood tree, cleaving the wintry sky, was a long dark object.
The harsh, threatening voice, cleaving the twilight solitude, where a moment before Vipan had imagined himself absolutely alone, was enough to unnerve a less resolute hearer.
Her rescuer perceived this danger as he started to her aid; and therefore pressed rapidly towards her, cleaving the water with all the strength that lay in his muscular arm and limbs.
The blade of the axe, guided with an unswerving arm, fell right upon the snout of the shark, just midway between its nostrils, cleaving the cartilaginous flesh to the depth of several inches, and laying it open to the bones.
Coromantee, with Lilly Lalee hoisted upon his left shoulder, was cleaving the water in the same direction.
It was marvellous at such a height, so remote from all things living, to see such passionate, strenuous life, such unflinching will, untiringly cleaving their triumphant way through space.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cleaving" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
