Crevice

Examples

• The last crevice had closed, and for a long year that hideous chamber would retain its secret from the eyes of men. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• It was paved and clean, but grass was growing in every crevice. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Through this crevice, a small room was visible, white-washed and clean, but very bare of furniture. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• With an admonitory gesture to keep them back, he stooped, and looked in through the crevice in the wall. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Still he went on, for his mind was as utterly narrowed into that precipitous crevice of play as if he had been the most ignorant lounger there. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Through costly-coloured glass and paper-mended window, through cathedral dome and rotten crevice, it shed its equal ray. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• I tapped upon the floor, but it sounded the same all over, and there was no sign of any crack or crevice. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Mr. Bruff himself was looking eagerly through a crevice left in the imperfectly-drawn curtains of the bed. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• But an infamous crevice saved him. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• But the least crevice is sufficient for the purpose; a pinhole will do the business. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• He bounded over the crevices in the ice, among which I had walked with caution; his stature also, as he approached, seemed to exceed that of man. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• They came to the little court, which was shut in by old red walls in whose crevices wall-flowers were growing. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• If straw is employed, the rough logs may remain, and the crevices between them may be left open. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• We have never seen ice better preserved through a long and hot summer than in a board shanty with only one thickness of siding, and that full of cracks and crevices. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• Some were crammed into the crevices of the wall”'; (Here Mr Venus looked at the wall. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• They swarmed out of mud bee-hives; out of hovels of the dry-goods box pattern; out of gaping caves under shelving rocks; out of crevices in the earth. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Mineral matter precipitated from solution is deposited in crevices and forms veins. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• With the first ray of light that struggled through the crevices in the shutters, Oliver arose, and again unbarred the door. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• If sawdust is used for packing, the crevices between the logs will need close stopping; or, still better, it can be faced on the inside with slabs set upright, with the smooth side inward. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• To prevent the expanding gases from driving through the crevices of the breech block, expanding or swelling rings, known as gas checks, are arranged on the front of the breech block. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.

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