Cleaving
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"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.
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In the United States, it is that great people composed of Latinos, Eastern European Jews, Italians, Asians, Irish, and, yes, Anglos still dreaming of Oxford-Cambridge sculls now
cleaving
the waters of the Charles River.
cried the trooper,
cleaving
a marauder to the jaw; but the leader sprang into the lawn, and escaped his vengeance.
With these words he approached the cavern, and perceived that it was impossible to let himself down or effect an entrance except by sheer force or
cleaving
a passage; so drawing his sword he began to demolish and cut away the brambles at the mouth of the cave, at the noise of which a vast multitude of crows and choughs flew out of it so thick and so fast that they knocked Don Quixote down; and if he had been as much of a believer in augury as he was a Catholic Christian he would have taken it as a bad omen and declined to bury himself in such a place.
Now, now ye go
cleaving
the air more swiftly than an arrow!
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