Suddenly branching off to the right, over the rough rocks, he preceded us to where, low down amongst a tumbled heap of boulders, a slight crevice showed.
His bait was a skinny hermit crab that he had scraped out of some crevice of the rock.
He led them to the little rock cave where the crevice abutted on the solid wall of rock, and he said: "Now what do you see?
Having secured the lantern the lad moved away and made for a crevice which promised the best results.
Meantime, Desmond followed the crevice until he came to the stone wall.
Desmond made a sign, and Brooks stepped forth from the crevice and approached the fire.
Desmond was the first to awake, and he peeped forth from his crevice and glanced down toward the point where the fire had been, when he beheld a sight that caused his blood to run cold.
He retraced his steps and selected a second crevice along which he made his way, and at length he landed in a pretty good sized inner cave.
He was in the crevice adjoining the one where Desmond had taken refuge.
They knew a cover in a crevice in the wall of rock which ran up abruptly each side of the gulch; from this spot they could survey and also make a good fight in an emergency.
Tug took his ramrod and worked the snow away from a crevice at the foot of the wall, near the floor.
Then he buckled around her the strap which had held the roll together, leaving only a fold out of which she might grasp the tiller, and another crevice through which to peep and breathe.
A crevice allowed him to see a woman and four children coiled up in a heap, trying to keep each other warm.
Pale grew the lighthouse flame before the broadening day as, nestled in a crevice at the cliff's edge, I watched the shadows draw away and morning break.
He then remarked that the door had lost one of its hinges, and hung so much awry that he could creep through the crevice into the room, which he did.
He lived in a crevice in the rocks, alone with his own thoughts.
Good-bye to the winter covert, the crevice in the protecting bough, the moss that still keeps the impress of his little body!
A liquid light seems forced back from the sky into every tiny crevice of this bejeweled wonderland.
The amber glass dispelled this trouble perfectly, enabling the eye to search carefully every nook and crevice through the vague incandescence which blinds the observer in hazy weather.
In little groups the archers formed in front of each slit orcrevice in the walls, whilst others scanned the battlements with wary eyes, and sped an arrow at every face which gleamed for an instant above them.
The gallant Lord Audley had dropped upon the ground and the blood oozed from every crevice of his battered armor.
They hastily concealed their small bundles of food in a crevice of the rocks, and, creeping cautiously, peered out in the last rays of the sun in order to discover the cause of this prodigious uproar.
They huddled for warmth as best they could in a crevice of the rocks, warmed only by their own hairy bodies.
So they drove two of their long staves into a crevice of the rocks.
Soon his body will be placed in a crevice in the rocks, and his spirit will go northward to join those of his ancestors at a place called Sipapu.
He threaded the car through the narrow crevice between two tall buttes of red sandstone that stuck up out of the desert like gnarled fingers.
He screamed; the whole side of his face seemed seared away, and an inch crevice burned into his shoulder and back the length it touched him.
She made her way across the ankle, up the slanting shin, back down the black thigh, until she stood at the crevice where the leg and torso met.
For they lived in adjoining houses; and although their parents had forbidden them to marry, these two had found a means of talking together through a crevice in the wall.
But even as she sat there, a moving thread of black crawled across the floor from a crevice in the wall; and bending nearer, she saw that a great army of ants in columns had come to her aid.
She also took the long needle out of her hair and hid it carefully in a corner, in a crevice between the pavement and the wall, lest it should at any time fall from its place and bring suspicion upon her.
As we made out, we were in a deep crevice cut crosswise by the stream which, issuing from a yawning cavern in the farther wall, was quickly engulfed again by that lower archway we had just traversed.
One end of this crevice chasm--that toward the upland valley--was choked and filled by the debris of later landslides; but the lower end was open.
Since we must examine closely every rift and crevice in the boundary cliff, it was a most tedious undertaking; and I do remember how my great trooper boots, sun-drying on my feet, made every step a wincing agony.
That done we were ready for a farther advance, and clambering back into the crevice we once more took the stream for our guide and were presently deep in the natural tunnel piercing the mountain proper.
He picked from a crevice a great bunch of soft dark brown filaments, somewhat resembling spun glass.
There was no mistake about the matter, for the grating as of a great piece of wood was heard, followed by a cracking sound like the point of a spear being inserted in a crevice so as to wrench open the dead-light.
Css, came loudly from a crevice in the rocks so suddenly and sharply, that the sailor sprang up in alarm.
Every nook and corner, every crevice and cave, were carefully explored, and as the men advanced slowly along the valley and slopes of the mountain, every kraal was fired that came in their way.
Our new-found guide entered a slight crevice in the limestone rock, and came forth armed with a stout spear tipped, as we afterwards found, with a shark's tooth.
I had scarcely proceeded in this way a dozen paces, when I felt as plainly as if I saw the object in the broad glare of the sun, a quick motion at my side in a nook or crevice of the wall.
There was no hole or crevice perceptible to the eye, nor did that portion of the bark feel less smooth than that immediately adjoining.
O'Reilly took his stand near the door and directly beneath the most promising crevice in the roof, which at this point was perhaps nine feet from the floor.
Ankle-deep in the muddy water, he patiently pecked and pounded and chipped, endeavoring to enlarge the crevice so as to use his bar as a lever.
Why not suspect him of having placed the hide in the crevice where it had later been found?
And this money I'll take and throw down that crevice under the Tooth, up there.
A weed-grown crevice had cheated him with its semblance to sound footing, and he lay with front leg broken, groaning a little now and then while the man talked and talked.
And he said if I left the money he would throw it down the crevice yonder--and he would do it!
How many had gone into the crevice he could not tell.
Sitting on a boulder, he made a leisurely survey of the place and counted three cigarette stubs that had fallen short of the crevice toward which they had evidently been flung.
More rarely the den is chosen in a crevice among the rocks, and some have been found which are no more than hollows in the shelter of overhanging shrubs.
It is a rim rock dweller; that is, it likes best to build its nest far back in some deep crevice of a cliff.
Lucia thought at one time that she saw one; but Rollo, on examining the spot, said it was only a little crevice of the rock wiggling.
He did not hesitate, but wound it about his body, and fixed himself as firmly as he could in a crevice of the rock.
I called to mind those Spanish vineyards, where the peasant carries a hamper of soil up the sunny slopes of the mountain-sides, and in some crevice of the rocks plants his vine.
He tried to grip the sides of the crevice with his feet and pull himself closer to the cliff face.
It was not actually a pit, but a crevice in the face of the cliff on which Orvieto was built.
You will perceive that some of the specimens accompanying this hold mechanically pieces of quartz--that the surface is rough, and evidently moulded in the crevice of a rock.
