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Meanings of cloven foot in anglès

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A hoof divided into two parts at its distal extremity (as of ruminants or swine)

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        Usage of cloven foot in anglès
        1
        But here Slavery showed its cloven foot in all its hideous deformity.
        Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman / Embracing ...
        2
        An unedified palate is the irrepressible cloven foot of the upstart.
        A Pair of Blue Eyes
        3
        The figure seems incomplete-whethera cloven foot or toes were intended, cannot say.
        Scientific American Supplement, No. 832, December 12, 1891
        4
        I've got a ball and chain round about that cloven foot.
        Hidden Creek
        5
        It seemed to me then that I saw the cloven foot of the tempter.
        Leila or, the Siege of Granada, Book II.
        6
        Here, in this chief teacher of the Neo-Malthusians, the cloven foot is fully revealed.
        Birth Control: A Statement of Christian Doctrine against the Neo...
        7
        No; he has shown the cloven foot in time.
        A Simpleton
        8
        Then she stuck a needle in his cloven foot that made him howl with pain.
        Dutch Fairy Tales for Young Folks
        9
        The cloven foot has here too plainly been revealed.
        Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 330, April 1843
        10
        Guess you'll show the cloven foot, though, before long.
        Clemence / The Schoolmistress of Waveland
        11
        Ay, a live dean-didn'tyou see the cloven foot sticking out from under his shoe-buckle?
        Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet: An Autobiography
        12
        When the fiat had irretrievably gone forth, they showed again the claws and the cloven foot.
        Idle Hour Stories
        13
        Here I saw the cloven foot of despotism.
        Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and ...
        14
        Where are the horns, and the cloven foot?
        The Red Rover: A Tale
        15
        The cloven foot of malice, the false faitours!
        Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, March 25, 1893
        16
        Of course, serpentining and chromaticising tendency as Mephistopheles in hiding the limp arising from his cloven foot.
        Frederick Chopin, as a Man and Musician — Volume 2
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