And now along the passage walls Were painted hideous animals, With hooded eyes and cloven stings: In the incense that like shadowy hair Streamed over them they seemed to stir Their craggy claws and crooked wings.
So when the dawn thro' rolling wreaths of cloud Struggled, and all the waves were molten gold, The heart of Spain exulted, for she saw The little fleet of England cloven in twain As if by some strange discord.
But in Shakspere there is no suspicion of a cloven foot.
There is not a form that lives in the world, but is a window cloven through the blank darkness of nothingness, to let us look into the heart, and feeling, and nature of God.
Meanwhile the rural ditties were not mute, Temper'd to the oaten flute, Rough Satyrs danced, and Fauns with cloven heel From the glad sound would not be absent long; And old Damoetas loved to hear our song.
Ye are in ayont the auld ane himsel, for our lass Tibbie saw his cloven cloots last night.
The two monsters formed when Rahu was cloven in twain, in Hindu Mythology, reappear in Eddaic fable as the wolves Skoell and Hati, who pursue the sun and moon.
This restless spirit gains through his ignorance a cloven hoof,--a divided movement, sometimes right, sometimes wrong.
Whereupon he of the cloven foot appeared in guise of a friar, and agreed to build the fifteen arches--for a consideration.
Saw ye never fryer Rushe Painted on cloth, with a side long cowe's tayle And crooked cloven feet, and many a hooked nayle?
The Nineteenth Century has replaced Merlin by Mephistopheles, the Devil who, despite a cloven foot, steps firmly on earth, and means the power that wit and culture can bring against the baptized giant Force.
The christian devil's clubbed or cloven foot is notorious.
But, to prove to you that Helen loves him: she came and puts me her white hand to his cloven chin-- Cres.
With the beams of his love wast thoucloven as with iron or fire, And the life in thee yearned for his life, and grew great with desire.
Child, my child that wast and art but death's and now no more of mine, Half my heart is cloven with anguish by the sword made sharp for thine, 870 Half exalts its wing for triumph, that I bare thee thus divine.
A cloven foot appears at last; but it is instantly withdrawn, with a shuffle; and you experience a scowl or a sneer, as the case may be, for your extreme unkindness in inquiring whether it was not a cloven foot you saw?
I dreamed that I was back at Penrith again, and was trying to get round the church, which had altered its shape very much since I last saw it, and was cloven all down the middle of the steeple in a most singular manner.
The light shone up so high that I could see the huge Iceberg upon which we had struck, cloven at the top and down the middle, exactly like Penrith Church in my dream.
And now the sun broke out pallid and waterish; the rain yet fell, but there was no more tempest: that hot firmament had cloven and poured out its lightnings.
He that had written it was no bad man, and while perpetually betraying the trained cunning--the cloven hoof of his system--I should pause before accusing himself of insincerity.
The log huts of the first settlers had at that time given place to comparatively spacious and commodious habitations, framed and covered with sawed boards, and cloven clapboards, or shingles.
He had shorn with his sword the cross from out The flag, and cloven the May-pole down, Harried the heathen round about, And whipped the Quakers from town to town.
Don't look away from me to that cloven tree; it is a bad omen.
Chapter V The Cloven Tree Secrets are rarely betrayed or discovered according to any programme our fear has sketched out.
From the waist down he was covered with shaggy hair like a goat's, and instead of feet he had cloven hooves.
Their ladders are planting, Their sabres are sweeping; Now swords from our sheaths By the thousand are leaping; Like the flash of the levin Ere men hearken thunder, Swords gleam, and the steel caps Are cloven asunder.
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.
Their sable briskets swept the ground, Their cloven feet kept solemn sound.
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.
A cloven headpiece had rolled from the smooth and grinning skull.
I heard the report myself some time ago there, but it bore such evidence of instigation by the cloven tongue of prejudice and slander that I thought little of it, and it had passed from my mind.
This divine passion gave him "cloven tongues of fire," and made him on occasion a pentecost of eloquence.
The law of the United States has beencloven down; the law of Massachusetts cloven down.
Putting all these things together, as well as many others, which our own wits will suggest to you, it is impossible but what you will freely acknowledge that this unfortunate John Ridd was now in a cloven stick.
The man turned up the gully leading from the moor to Cloven Rocks, through which John Fry had tracked Uncle Ben, as of old related.
Feeling these things more in those days than I feel them now, I fetched a goodish compass round, by the way of the cloven rocks, rather than cross Black Barrow Down, in a reckless and unholy manner.
Cloven Rocks, and after riding hard for an hour and drinking all his whisky, he luckily fell in with a shepherd, who led him on to a public-house somewhere near Exeford.
I listened attentively, though in all this the clovenfoot appeared.
The ugly disagreements were many and the cloven foot was shown in many ways.
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