cleaves

Their skin cleaves to their bones, their flesh being quite consumed and wasted away; it is withered; it has become like a stick, as dry and hard as a piece of wood.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721

And yet the idea cleaves to me strangely, and is liable to stick to my shroud.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843 Various

They clasp hands upon the compact, and Hagen with his sword cleaves in two the drinking-horn.

The Wagnerian Romances Gertrude Hall Brownell 1912

The mystic fire consumes our weakness, the sacred sword cleaves the bondage of desire.

The Book of Tea Okakura, Kakuzo, 1862-1913 1906

Similarly Pakudha Kaccâyana states that "when a sharp sword cleaves a head in twain" the soul and pain play a part similar to that played by the component elements of the sword and head.

Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 Charles Eliot 1896

The mystic fire consumes our weakness, the sacred sword cleaves the bondage of desire.

The Book of Tea Kakuzo Okakura 1888

As the sword cleaves through the byrny, so there the mountain flank

The Roots of the Mountains; Wherein Is Told Somewhat of the Lives of the Men of Burgdale William Morris 1865

And yet the idea cleaves to me strangely, and is liable to stick to my shroud.

Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection Walter Savage Landor 1819

Now from Westport to Ballinrobe we had met nobody but a very few people going into town either riding on an ass or driving one laden with a pair of panniers or "cleaves" of turf, for which some fourpence or fivepence would be paid.

Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. Bernard H. Becker

The hero habitually "cleaves" his foeman "to the midriff," the "midriff" being what the properly brought up hero always has in view.

Ponkapog Papers. 1904