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Southern dene or Lancashire clough or Devon cleave,
Epithalamion 1918
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Now fierce loud-sounding Boreas rocks doth cleave,
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914
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Now who art thou, that through our smoke dost cleave,
Purgatory. Canto XVI 1909
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And then this scar, which doth his eyebrow cleave,
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 01 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. Kuno Francke 1892
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Then while the soul its way with sound can cleave,
George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy George Willis Cooke 1885
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Then while the soul its way with sound can cleave,
George Eliot; A Critical Study of Her Life, Writings and Philosophy Cooke, George W 1884
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Southern dene or Lancashire clough or Devon cleave,
Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins Now First Published Gerard Manley Hopkins 1866
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And then this scar, which doth his eyebrow cleave,
Iphigenia in Tauris Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1790
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With strong ploughshares no man the earth did cleave,
The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 3 (of 3) Christopher Marlowe 1578
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Small iflands alive they appear As the billows they buffet and cleave,
Poetic effusions; pastoral, moral, amatory, and descriptive Perfect, William, 1737-1809 1796
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