Word: clefts
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...spoke its rocky sermon to him and he, better than any other etcher of this time, understood what it was saying. "When you go out on the ferry to Staten Island," he wrote, "there is one moment on the trip when, looking back to Manhattan, you see the city cleft by the canyon of Broadway. I say that the Grand Canyon has nothing to equal that sight...
...which he has become so pleasantly-and to himself, profitably-known. On the whole, The London Venture will be of some considerable interest to those who crave to know the man behind the pen-name, to those who eagerly lap every drop of ink that may flow from his cleft pen, to those who like to proclaim themselves as having read "every word" any given writer has ever written. It is not a good book with which to make Mr. Arlen's acquaintance...
...this question the people of the country are asked to vote "yes" or "no." Irreconcilable Republican politicians immediately told the press that as far as they were concerned the answer is "no." The alignment of opinion almost immediately seemed to be along the same cleft which divided the country on the League of Nations a few years ago. It remains to be seen whether the people, like politicians and the greater part of the press, will follow this old alignment...
...marred by occasional exaggerations and the style is a little too elaborate and rhetorical throughout. The editorials, which counsel calmness and independent reflection together with earnest preparation for all eventualities, are sound in substance, but here and there awkward in exposition. The reviewer is not sure whether the cleft infinitive ("to merely talk") is to be regarded as an oversight or as a declaration of independence...
...those of the Harvard expedition in January show an appearance of the corona to the east of the sun, much like that of a wedge, its sides extending far out in wavy lines; on the other side of the sun the coroan appears much brighter, and, from its cleft shape, bears a strong resemblance to the tail of a fish...