Adjective : Goats have cloven hoofs. From Dictionary.com.
Therefore some think it was with a rushing mighty wind, and in cloven tongues, as that was. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)] Reference
Spirit was given in cloven tongues as of fire, introduced by a rushing mighty wind, which was very tempestuous, Acts ii. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)] Reference
All creatures that chew the cud have two toes, or are what is called cloven-footed. From Wordnik.com. [Twilight and Dawn Simple Talks on the Six Days of Creation] Reference
This fire appeared in cloven tongues. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)] Reference
It may here be noted that the natural electric flame is DUAL or 'cloven' in shape. From Wordnik.com. [A Romance of Two Worlds] Reference
Of cradled buds, among the cloven elms, and saith. From Wordnik.com. [Lilith The Legend of the First Woman] Reference
Matty took the piece of bark from the cloven stick. From Wordnik.com. [Pathfinder or, The Missing Tenderfoot] Reference
Deep cloven, and Cocytus churns there his current; the vapor. From Wordnik.com. [The Satyricon — Complete] Reference
But ruptured the crust of the earth, deeply cloven, asunder. From Wordnik.com. [The Satyricon — Complete] Reference
The field is heaped with bleeding steeds, and flags and cloven mail. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8] Reference
The field is heaped with bleeding steeds, and flags, and cloven mail. From Wordnik.com. [English Songs and Ballads] Reference
Hans, perceiving the cloven hoof and the horns, at once recognizes the. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference
Instead she draped its cloven foot gracefully, and turned her back on it -- and. From Wordnik.com. [An Australian Lassie] Reference
Yes; and but for the cloven foot, the jest, as you call it, would have succeeded, too. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Rose] Reference
Stained with blood -- the bonnet itself cloven in twain with a blow from hatchet or axe. From Wordnik.com. [Border Ghost Stories] Reference
And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. From Wordnik.com. [When the Holy Ghost is Come] Reference
Before the stroke the marble split asunder as though the pick-axe of a miner had cloven it. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Myths] Reference
Blades flashed, lances were splintered, helms were cloven in that terrible fight of heroes. From Wordnik.com. [Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race] Reference
He had cloven feet, and his coat, if it was a coat, seemed to be made in the shape of wings. From Wordnik.com. [Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends] Reference
Al Johnson's is on constant lookout for other cloven-hooved intellectual-property violations. From Wordnik.com. [Lars Johnson Has Goats on His Roof and a Stable of Lawyers to Prove It] Reference
Whatever form he may assume, the cloven foot must always be visible under every disguise; and. From Wordnik.com. [The Superstitions of Witchcraft] Reference
And whichever way you turn, whichever way you look, you find the cloven foot of Henson everywhere. From Wordnik.com. [The Crimson Blind] Reference
From the waist down he was covered with shaggy hair like a goat's, and instead of feet he had cloven hooves. From Wordnik.com. [David and the Phoenix] Reference
The Hyperion head of Poe was lost to the view of many by a too persistent search for the satyr's cloven foot. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
"And old Grimsby swears he saw the fellow's tail and cloven hoof when he was waylaid by him," commented Lindley. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905] Reference
They bent up the leg of the ox and rested his cloven hoof in the groove, and shod each part with a piece of iron. From Wordnik.com. [Ben Comee A Tale of Rogers's Rangers, 1758-59] Reference
While he was reciting the penitential psalms before the altar, the conspirators rushing in, his head was cloven by. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
The symptoms pointed to foot-and-mouth disease, a contagion deadly to cloven-hoofed mammals but harmless to humans. From Wordnik.com. [Now, 'Mad Pig' Disease] Reference
At last a card fell to the ground, and the party who picked it up discovered that the clever player had a cloven foot. From Wordnik.com. [Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales] Reference
Stu Woo/The Wall Street Journal Al Johnson's is on constant lookout for other cloven-hooved intellectual-property violations. From Wordnik.com. [High on a Roof is a Tiny Goat Herd] Reference
He had two long white tusks, two horns on his head, a large cloven foot, and a long tail that he drew after him on the floor. From Wordnik.com. [Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal] Reference
Another leader of the Free-State men is surrounded by these desperate ruffians, and his skull and brain are cloven with a hatchet. From Wordnik.com. [Old John Brown, the man whose soul is marching on] Reference
The cloven mist unwraps its folded canopy, and lo! the blue Pacific, boundlessly outspread, far glitters in the silvery light of morn. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851] Reference
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