cleave

• They split ("cleave") easily along the plane of the sheets. —  Magazine - Analog Science Fiction And Fact - 2007 - Issue 03 - March (v1.0) [lit]
• Greenberg, while seeing no hint of an erotic bond in this story, sees the word cleave in Ruth 1: 14, and the similarity of Ruth's forceful language in expressing the willingness to stay, as indicating an "erotic pull." —  Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
• Jenna Fischer showing rare cleave, and my favourite trio of Redheads, —  The Velvet Hot Tub | Freshest Stories
• Some Cćsar or Napoleon will spring from the vortex of revolution and war, and with his sword cleave his way to supreme command. —  A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861
• The difference between a break or fracture and a "cleave," is that the former may be anywhere throughout the substance of the broken body, with an extremely remote chance of another fracture being identical in form, whereas in the latter, when a body is "cleaved," the fractured part is more readily severed, and usually takes a similar if not an actually identical form in the divided surface of each piece severed. —  The Chemistry, Properties and Tests of Precious Stones

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