Landslip

I know that from a strict sense the terms landslip and landslide are similar but it sounds a little better to my ear. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The landslip was the second to occur this week on that western stretch. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It is for this reason I have coined the term 'landslip' to define this kind of victory. ❋ Unknown (2008)

An empty car was washed into the harbour in Portloe, south Cornwall, while a landslip at Lostwithiel, near Bodmin, blocked the main rail line in and out of the county. ❋ Steven Morris (2010)

The fontis were due to different causes: the friability of the soil; some landslip at a depth beyond the reach of man; the violent summer rains; the incessant flooding of winter; long, drizzling showers. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Periglacial activities included considerable slope instability in extraglacial areas, giving rise to gelifluctate, landslip and talus deposits. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The mountains would crush him with landslip and rift! — ❋ Unknown (2008)

Also Friday, a miner was buried in an underground landslip at ❋ Unknown (2007)

Berlin (the London ones have all fallen in, the collapse beginning after the great landslip and fire), and close upon this came the cessation of tall building and the concentration of design upon the vast (and often dangerous) carapace roof and its gigantic supporting pillars and foundation rafts. ❋ Herbert George (2006)

Then some huge landslip in the thawing air had caught us, and spluttering expostulation, we began to roll down a slope, rolling faster and faster, leaping crevasses and rebounding from banks, faster and faster, westward into the white-hot boiling tumult of the lunar day. ❋ Herbert George (2006)

Vast extinct volcanoes, lava wildernesses, tumbled wastes of snow, or frozen carbonic acid, or frozen air, and everywhere landslip seams and cracks and gulfs. ❋ Herbert George (2006)

The winding road was propped up with walls to prevent landslip; the mountains looked wild and rugged; the weather was perfect. ❋ Unknown (2006)

But there also had been a landslip, quite recent from the marks. ❋ Unknown (2005)

You may be sure, after the friendly freedoms of your criticism (necessary I am sure, and wholesome I know, but untimely to the poor labourer in his landslip) that mighty little of it will stand. ❋ Unknown (2005)

The sense of impotence is stifling, and I felt as if I were buried in some landslip instead of lying under the open sky, with the night wind fanning my face. ❋ Unknown (2005)

We might at any moment have a much stronger shock, which would bring down the house over us, or — what I feared more — cause a landslip, and send us down into the deep ravine on the very edge of which the village is built; yet ❋ Unknown (2004)

Of course it had taken some time to get the line clear from the rocks and earth and trees that had fallen on it when the great landslip happened. ❋ Edith (2003)

They came to a place where they might gain access to the shore by a path down a landslip. ❋ Unknown (2003)