While the assault forces tried to overcome the infantry weapons of the local defenders, they were naturally blind to an almost imperceptible stirring taking place among the rocks and crevices of the interior highlands.
The division’s final action report stated that the flame tank was “the one weapon that caused the Japs to leave their caves and rock crevices and run.
Strong fragrant perfumes filled the air, and the fireflies were getting ready for flight, in the bushes and crevices of the rocks round about.
Many hundreds of mountain-swallows fluttered out of the crevices between the rocks.
Then he continued: "Now three persons in this room had an opportunity to secrete the contents of this deadly tube in the crevices of the metal work of Mrs. Close's bed.
As a last thought I had, however, cleaned the mattress of the bed and the cracks and crevices in the brass bars.
Lusty arms had felled the trees, that were cut the proper length and dovetailed in the usual manner at the corners, the crevices being filled with a species of plaster, made almost entirely from yellow clay.
Through one of the crevices behind Jack, came a draught of wind which, striking him on his shoulders, caused him to shiver.
The logs were roughly dovetailed at the corners, but none of the numerous crevices were stopped by mortar or clay, and daylight could be discerned through many a rent, which in cold weather admitted the keen cutting wind.
When the open door, the burning fire, the hole which answered for a chimney, and the numerous crevices did not give enough light for the interior, the occupants went outside to obtain it.
During the operation, all three had kept watch through crevices in the stockade-wall, holding their guns pointed towards the aperture, and ready to give the bear a volley the moment he should show his snout.
The place was likely enough, for at every few yards they saw crevices and deep cavities; but in none of them could they find any traces of Bruin.
Both went to sleep during the winter--concealing themselves cunningly in caves and crevices among rocks, or among fallen timber, where such could be found in sufficient quantity to afford them shelter.
At this season the bears are hidden away in their caves--in crevices of the rocks or hollow trees-- from which they only issue forth when the spring sun makes itself felt, and the snow begins to disappear from the sides of the hills.
She was idly plucking up tufts of grass from the crevices of the rock, and tossing them in the mouth of the cataract, and her face was partly turned toward him.
A few gendarmes had come up, and very soon a party of labourers was at work clearing away the lighter rubbish under the lurid glare of pitch torches stuck into the crevices and cracks of the rent walls.
Taking advantage of the slight foothold afforded by the crevices in the masonry, he drew himself up with catlike agility till he was able to kneel upon the narrow summit.
The reptiles, being cold-blooded, cannot stand even a moderate winter cold, save when they are so small that they can crawl deep into crevicesin the rocks to sleep the winter away, guarded from the cold by the warmth of the earth.
The surface of the mountains is cleft, hollowed out in all directions, and in these sinuous crevices grow veritable forests of lemon trees.
When rain falls on the surface of the earth, it continues making its way downwards through the pores and crevices in the ground.
As its name implies, it is found among rocks, in the crevices and holes of which it finds a retreat.
The nest of this Owl is made in the crevices of rocks, or in ruins, and is a very large one, composed of sticks and twigs, lined with a tolerably large heap of dried herbage, the parent Owls returning to the same spot year after year.
The jackdaws have taken up their abodes in the crevices and crannies of the upper half of the steeple.
The colder air is entering at the same time through the joints about windows, door casings, through the crevicesin the walls and particularly through the open joints made by the baseboards and the floor.
More than three hundred sacks of soil were imported from Tahiti for the Residency garden; and this must shortly be renewed, for the earth blows away, sinks in crevices of the coral, and is sought for at last in vain.
There was service in the church, and the building glimmered through all its crevices like a dim Kirk Allowa'.
Planting their long pikes against the walls, or thrusting them into the crevices between the stones, they clambered up with remarkable dexterity,—a feat which they were utterly unable to repeat the next day, when they tried it in cold blood.
The pine knots in the crevices of the stockade filled the place with a lurid glare that seemed like the blaze of a noonday sun.
The pine knots blazed fitfully in the crevices of the stockade, turning to a ghastly glare as daylight came on.
The chinks were plastered with a bluish clay, and the crevices in the floor were filled with a mixture of clay and small chips.
The roots penetrate deeply into the crevices of the lava rocks, enabling it to withstand the fierce winds.
Those thrown down years ago are moss-covered and have collected enough soil in their crevices to nourish underbrush and large trees.
In this way the greater portion of the time was passed, altered only by rowing about in the gig, and seeking for wild ducks among the crevices of the rocks.
On each side of us rose from the surface of the water, perpendicularly into the clear sky, mountains of solid stone, covered to their very summits with no other vegetation than the fir, which springs out of the crevices of the rocks.
Then, as if by a given signal, all of them, including the one on Henry's hand, united in a single volume of song and flew up into the crevices of the green roof.
In the crevicesof the bank he found traces of thin ash.
And everywhere around me I could discern the chilly, gaping smile of blue crevices which caught at my feet, and rendered the tread of my boot-soles unstable.
The cave itself was more full of interest than the beach, and they devoted the remainder of the afternoon to hunting about among the crevices and chasms, and peeping into gaps and fissures till they almost forgot the time.
It was not a profuse grower, and he had only succeeded in finding one or two specimens, in the crevices of rocks at the entrance to a cavern.
The crevices were filled up, and the walls were made sixteen feet high, by digging down to the foundations and throwing up the surplus earth as a glacis.
They were old, weak, and so full of cracks that it was quite common to see soldiers climb to the top by means of the support these crevices afforded to their hands and feet.
Max looked up at the mouldering walls, with their crevices dotted with patches of polypody and ruta muraria, velvety moss, and flaunting golden sun ragwort, and wondered whether the place was ever attacked.
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