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Clift   Listen
noun
Clift  n.  
1.
A cleft of crack; a narrow opening. (Obs.)
2.
The fork of the legs; the crotch. (Obs.)





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"Clift" Quotes from Famous Books



... form within was rude and strong, Like an huge cave hewn out of rocky clift, From whose rough vault the ragged breaches hung, Embossed with massy gold of glorious gift, And with rich metal loaded every rift, That heavy ruin they did seem to threat: And over them Arachne high did lift Her cunning web, and spread her subtle ...
— Lectures on the English Poets - Delivered at the Surrey Institution • William Hazlitt
... ready to start, Willie was missing. Mrs. Sherman supposed him to have been with me, whereas I supposed he was with her. An officer of the Thirteenth went up to General McPherson's house for him, and soon returned, with Captain Clift leading him, carrying in his hands a small double-barreled shot gun; and I joked him about carrying away captured property. In a short time we got off. As we all stood on the guards to look at our old camps at Young's Point, I remarked that ...
— The Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman, Complete • William T. Sherman


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