Clefts

It came upon England like one of those sudden spates through mountain clefts in spring, that fall with havoc on the plains beneath. ❋ Unknown (1916)

Seen from a distance, there appeared to be nothing but stone there; but when one came closer, there were to be found the choicest goose tidbits in clefts and hollows, and one might search long for better nesting places than those that were hidden in the mountain crevices or among the osier bushes. ❋ Unknown (1911)

Around the dark water gathered in clefts and hollows there was now no wood-sorrel. ❋ Unknown (1911)

The aspect of fiery meteors had led the ancients likewise to the idea of clefts or openings ( 'chasmata') in the vault of heaven. ❋ Alexander Von Humboldt (1814)

Each year around 100,000 raw blades made of willow, known as clefts, are exported from England to India and Pakistan where they are made into the finished product. ❋ IBNLive.com [email protected] (2010)

However, there could be aspects of this setting that could damage a dragon, such as clefts in the ground covered by illusion. ❋ Anthony, Piers (1988)

If the sharp nodosities of character caught his eye, its mysterious recesses and labyrinthine alleys allured his curiosity; this lover of "clefts," this pryer among tangled locks and into the depths of flower-bells, peered into all the nooks and chambers of the soul with inexhaustible enterprise. ❋ Unknown (1892)

His "clefts" and "wedges" owe their attraction not only to their intricate angularity but to the violent cleavings and thrustings apart which they result from or produce. ❋ Unknown (1892)

It is not my intention to give a complete description of the various lunar features, and I mention but one other -- the "clefts" or "rills," which are to be seen running across the surface like cracks. ❋ Unknown (1890)

The narrow sharp line leading from the crater to the left is one of those remarkable "clefts" which traverse the moon in so many directions. ❋ Unknown (1876)

Jerome interprets "the great house" as Israel, and "the small house" as Judah: the former being reduced to branches or ruins, literally, "small drops"; the latter, though injured with "clefts" or rents, which threaten its fall, yet still permitted to stand. ❋ Unknown (1871)

Each roll is divided up to obtain an optimum number of "clefts", which are then shaped in to a "blade". ❋ Unknown (2010)

He has never glimpsed that prodigious fissure that clefts Mr. Mellaire's, or, rather, ❋ Unknown (2010)

From under clefts among the rocks I gathered a few dry sticks and chips. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The way grew severer, and several times the clefts they essayed extended down to the ocean level and spouted spray from the growling breakers that burst through. ❋ Unknown (2010)

At other times, standing erect, they would fall forward across deep and narrow clefts until their palms met the opposing side; then, clinging with their fingers, their bodies would be drawn across and up. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The requested investigation of health-care records would determine the incidence of oral clefts in children born to women using topiramate for preventing migraines. ❋ Thomas Gryta (2011)

Oral clefts occur when parts of the lip or palate do not fuse together completely early in the first trimester, at a time when many women may not yet know they are pregnant. ❋ Unknown (2011)

So, too, the newborn with bilateral clefts in his lip and his soft palate, dead only hours after his mother first agreed to finally hold him. ❋ Md Meghan Maclean Weir (2011)

Thousands of years of running water have cut the land into V-shaped arroyos and gullies that deepen into clefts. ❋ Annie Proulx (2011)