1 These words rang in Dantes' ears, even beneath the waves; he hastened to cleave his way through them to see if he had not lost his strength.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 21. The Island of Tiboulen. 2 An hour passed, during which Dantes, excited by the feeling of freedom, continued to cleave the waves.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 21. The Island of Tiboulen. 3 They cleave their furrows together, and all the sea is torn asunder by oars and triple-pointed prows.
4 The tall ash echoes to the axe's strokes; they overturn pines that soar into the sky, and busily cleave oaken logs and scented cedar with wedges, and drag mountain-ashes on their groaning waggons.
5 But she found a Washington which did not cleave to Main Street.
6 She was coming out of Marseilles harbor, and was standing out to sea rapidly, her sharp prow cleaving through the waves.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 21. The Island of Tiboulen. 7 They sailed; Edmond was again cleaving the azure sea which had been the first horizon of his youth, and which he had so often dreamed of in prison.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 22. The Smugglers. 8 The sailors had again hoisted sail, and the vessel was once more cleaving the waves.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 31. Italy: Sinbad the Sailor. 9 And then her thoughts, cleaving through space like a bird in the air, rested on Cavalcanti.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 99. The Law. 10 Ay, that was a day of cleaving of shields, when a hundred banners were bent forwards over the heads of the valiant, and blood flowed round like water, and death was held better than flight.
11 Stephen, his tongue cleaving to his palate, bowed his head, praying with his heart.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 3 12 A cannon ball, cleaving the air, flew over the heads of Bagration and his suite, and fell into the column to the measure of "Left."
13 So speaking, he darts from heaven's height, and cleaving the breezy air, seeks Ascanius.
14 He refused to wear soft hats; cleaved to a hard derby, as a symbol of virility and prosperity; and sometimes he forgot to take it off in the house.
15 The axe cleaved the air in front of Heyward, and cutting some of the flowing ringlets of Alice, quivered in the tree above her head.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 11