All 8 Uses of
cleave
in
Riders of the Purple Sage
- It was a prayer, as if forth from those lonely purple reaches and walls of red and clefts of blue might ride a fearless man, neither creed-bound nor creed-mad, who would hold up a restraining hand in the faces of her ruthless people.†
Chpt 1clefts = splits or cracks
- He got off his horse, and, giving the bridle to Ring to hold, he commenced a search for the cleft where the stream ran.†
Chpt 4 *cleft = a split or crack in something"Editor's Notes"Cleft is the past tense of cleave like left is past tense of leave.
Today, cleft is most seen in the form cleft palate or cleft lip to refer to medical conditions at birth.
- Above him, through a V-shaped cleft in the dark rim of the cliff, shone the lustrous stars that had been his lonely accusers for a long, long year.†
Chpt 8
- Across the dark cleft gleamed the red of the opposite wall.†
Chpt 17
- Following the canyon line, he saw where its rim was broken by other intersecting canyons, and farther down red walls and yellow cliffs leading toward a deep blue cleft that he made sure was Deception Pass.†
Chpt 17
- The rims of the canyons gleamed crimson and the deep clefts appeared to belch forth blue smoke.†
Chpt 17clefts = splits or cracks
- Lassiter picked up the child and turned into a dark cleft.†
Chpt 23cleft = a split or crack in something"Editor's Notes"Cleft is the past tense of cleave like left is past tense of leave.
Today, cleft is most seen in the form cleft palate or cleft lip to refer to medical conditions at birth.
- When Bishop Dyer's voice did cleave the silence it was high, curiously shrill, and on the point of breaking.†
Chpt 11
Definitions:
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(1)
(cleave as in: cleave through) to split or cut through somethingIronically, this word can mean to split in two or to hold together.
Note that you may see cleaved, cleft, clove, or cloven as the past tense of this sense of cleave. -
(2)
(cleave as in: cleave to) to hold firmly to something -- such as an object, a person or ideaIronically, this word can mean to split in two or to hold together.
Note that you may see cleaved, clove, or clave as the past tense of this sense of cleave. -
(3)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
a proper noun or other word too rare to warrant focus