How well she remembered Ruskin—no, it was not Ruskin, it was the Bible that said a man should leave his father and mother and cleave only to his wife; showing that she became by marriage an even more than blood relation.
At last he cried, "Cleave him to the brisket!
We cleave tightly to reassuring notions of what normal people are like, which means we exclude a lot – often the richest bit – of what we truly feel, want and think.
Then I would cleave the vault of heaven, To flee away, and be at rest.
As the title suggests, Mr Cleave even dares to set his story around the Olympics, the ultimate sporting circus.
How delightful it would be, said they, if we had a king who enforced law and justice among us, and they met together to choose for their ruler the one who could cleave through the water most quickly, and give help to the weak ones.
