"Crevice" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... work was suspended on account of the weather. But one day, after the pipe had been driven to a considerable depth and the rock below had been drilled for six inches, the drill suddenly fell into a crevice, and upon investigation the hole was found to be nearly ...
— Mr. Opp • Alice Hegan Rice
... all its robes of darkness, Rattled like a shore with pebbles, Answered wailing, answered weeping, "Take my balm, O Hiawatha!" And he took the tears of balsam, Took the resin of the Fir Tree, Smeared therewith each seam and fissure, Made each crevice safe from water. "Give me of your quills, O Hedgehog! I will make a necklace of them, Make a girdle for my beauty, And two stars to deck her bosom!" From a hollow tree the Hedgehog, With his sleepy ...
— De La Salle Fifth Reader • Brothers of the Christian Schools
... the little men, "we can show you that!" And they led him out of the hall. In the passage outside was a great cleft or crevice in the rocks such as we call in England a chine. Above it the moon shone full and bright. A waterfall rushed down on one side; he saw ferns and dear little plants leaning over the water, growing between the cracks of the rocks. There were also glow-worms cunningly arranged in groups that looked like ...
— Fairy Tales from the German Forests • Margaret Arndt
... the shallow grave; a lump of frosty earth slipped from the rugged heap above and settled into a crevice of the cloak ...
— A Modern Mercenary • Kate Prichard and Hesketh Vernon Hesketh-Prichard
... which the light came seemed, as we descended, every moment to become less and less, and the darkness at every step to increase, till at length only a few rays appeared, as if darting through a crevice, and just tinging the small clouds of smoke which, at dusk, raised themselves to the ...
— Travels in England in 1782 • Charles P. Moritz
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