A hoof divided into two parts at its distal extremity (as of ruminants or swine)
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Examples for "cloven foot "
Examples for "cloven foot "
1 But here Slavery showed its cloven foot in all its hideous deformity.
2 An unedified palate is the irrepressible cloven foot of the upstart.
3 The figure seems incomplete-whethera cloven foot or toes were intended, cannot say.
4 I've got a ball and chain round about that cloven foot .
5 It seemed to me then that I saw the cloven foot of the tempter.
1 She was proceeding in the direction the broad cloven hoof marks indicated.
2 I was almost happy; the cloven hoof had peeped so damningly out.
3 The philanthropist of Geneva shows the cloven hoof now and then.
4 This fellow believed in the devil, and his devil had a cloven hoof .
5 For here, in this unguarded moment, the cloven hoof had plainly shown itself.
6 Occasionally a cloven hoof is spied and sliced to the bone.
7 One account would paint him a church deacon, frock-coated, smug; another with cloven hoof .
8 But I suppose if Monsieur had a cloven hoof one must not mention it.
9 The cloven hoof has never appeared, because I personally believe there's no cloven hoof .
10 Dipping down to recover her hand, she saw that the stranger had a cloven hoof .
11 A cloven hoof thumped gently against the wood floor.
12 Here, see, at the edge of this cloven hoof ?
13 Haven't you detected the cloven hoof in my leaders?
14 A sheep has used his cloven hoof to turn on the Christmas lights in a Derbyshire town.
15 You n-never saw the cloven hoof ?
16 Has Lewis Rand a cloven hoof ?
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