All 10 Uses of
cleave
in
The Rainbow Trail
- But here in the horizon-wide face of that up-flung and cloven desert he grew cold; he faltered even while he felt more fatally drawn.†
Chpt 1
- The low murmur of shallow water came up to him from a deep, narrow cleft.†
Chpt 2 *
- Incapable of voluntary movement, with tongue cleaving to the roof of his mouth, Shefford watched the horseman and the half-poised gun.†
Chpt 2
- The color low down was red, dark blue, and purple in the clefts, yellow upon the heights, and in the distance rainbow-hued.†
Chpt 7
- Night was lifting out of the clefts and ravines; the rolling cedar ridges and the sage flats were softly gray, with thin veils like smoke mysteriously rising and vanishing; the colorless rocks were changing.†
Chpt 8
- His falcon eye saw mustang and sheep, the puff of dust down on the cedar level, the Indian riding on a distant ridge, the gray walls, and the blue clefts.†
Chpt 8
- He seemed to see a thousand domes of a thousand shapes and colors, and among them a thousand blue clefts, each one a little mark in his sight, yet which he knew was a canyon.†
Chpt 17
- Shefford followed the blue line all its length, a hundred miles, he fancied, down toward the west where it joined a dark, purple, shadowy cleft.†
Chpt 17
- Shefford's eye swept along with that winding mark, farther and farther to the west, round to the left, until the cleft, growing larger and coming closer, losing its deception, was seen to be a wild and winding canyon.†
Chpt 17
- And then farther on it became again a cleft, a purple line, at last to fail entirely in deceiving distance.†
Chpt 17