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Certain glycosylases also have abasic lyase activity, cleaving the phosphodiester bond adjacent to the abasic deoxyribose residue.
Nobody gets points for being virtuous and cleaving to fidelity when there are no opportunities to do otherwise.
It's the fabled Cilician Gates that gave Alexander access to the wealth of Asia, a great, cleaving gap in a mountain range.
Stressed cells also had higher activities of sucrose cleaving enzymes, such as alkaline invertase and sucrose synthase.
He swung the mighty blade with one arm cleaving the ground and splitting the tiles around it.
I know for a fact I could stand to be kinder, more generous, fiercer in cleaving to the good, true and beautiful.
A beetle and froe were used for cleaving the sawn pieces, then a hatchet and drawshave were needed to roughly shape the lengths of wood.
The arrow points to a mitotic figure cleaving off a narrow cell from a semi-regular hexagon cell.
Like an icicle being stepped on, the iceberg split into pieces as the bombs ripped through it, fire cleaving a line clean through the middle.
Three such soldiers were there at this time, cleaving through waves of eye laden stalks as they rose from the dust.
Seres disappeared into the fray, a pair of short blades cleaving a path through the enemy that had rushed into the clearing.
The course of the cleaving process can be controlled to some extent depending on the size of the original defect.
Look to the Lord, cleaving to Him, simple, earnest in our desires to make known His name.
But rather than cleaving to pop's primary palette, where sexiness and triumphalism play well, these are songs mostly about pain.
The ship quivers, then settles back to its work of cleaving the smooth surface of the sea.
O brave new jaw, with Spearming cleaving to the choppers as rockweed cleaves to the rock.
If there must be change, make it gradual, and do it with the minimum of fuss. This election certainly seems to be cleaving to that stereotype.
Yet in cleaving to this scrupulous technique, he has skimped on the more obvious satisfactions of excitement and suspense.
However, problems are still arising with the cleaving of these wafers due to cracks and fractures in submillimetre-sized parts.
But for all this cleaving to their template there are great leaps forward if you listen closely.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The tulwar, instead of cleaving his skull, glanced off the sword, and with diminished force bit into his shoulder.
Thou hast broken from the hills that enchained thee, and now rollest far and free, cleaving a wide way through thine own alluvion.
And then Richard was on his feet, cleaving the air about him with his own broadsword.
All around were swan-white mansions, lofty domes and turrets high, Like the peaks of white Kailasa cleaving through the azure sky!
The celebrated Kilkenny cats, through their tumultuous congress, cleaving the ear of Night, could they be said to do nothing?
But any milk pudding, as I now know, has a most vicious habit of cleaving to the dish in which it was cooked.
And so full was he of the idea of how to set about cleaving the log that he forgot even his zither.
She was coming out of Marseilles harbor, and was standing out to sea rapidly, her sharp prow cleaving through the waves.
Johnson seems to spend all his spare time there or aloft at the crosstrees, watching the Ghost cleaving the water under press of sail.
There was formerly a student in Heidelberg who had picked up somewhere and mastered a peculiar trick of cutting up under instead of cleaving down from above.
Had they been alone, she would have thrown herself into his arms and entreated him to disregard everything except their strong cleaving to one another.
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