The largest fissure of all, one lying at the foot of Mt.
You will find these craters, generally, along a large fissure, just the way you find the Aleutian chain of volcanoes along a fissure in the earth's crust several hundred miles in length.
I was obliged to search personally among my shelves, and a huge fissure suddenly disclosed to me the true nature of the damage I had sustained.
The fissure is about thirty feet in breadth, and the perpendicular walls on each side of the channel of the stream which flows through it, are nearly three hundred feet high.
The trail proceeds up the Sweetwater River, and passes a remarkable fissure in the Rocky Mountain wall, which is called the Devil's Gate.
On the 14th another frightful storm was experienced: a fissure opened in the ice under the house and the roof fell in, but fortunately the inmates all escaped.
The impetus of Joel's plunge carried him the length of the pool and into the fissureunder the wall.
When the wall of the city was built, its base had been laid in such a manner as to bridge a natural fissure in the rock below the water line.
In a few minutes a basket descended from the pinnacle of the cliff; and, having moored his boat, he placed himself in the wicker carriage, and was safely drawn into a crevice high in the fissure of a rock, into which he disappeared.
At that instant a series of wild cries reached their ears, and, turning swiftly, they saw a band of dark-faced men pouring through a fissure in the rocks to the north of them.
The moon came up over the mountain peaks, which stood out plainly in the clear light, every gorge and fissure being cut black as ink, and showing with wonderful distinctness.
Their peculiar position is caused by the influence of air and moisture, wearing a fissure in the rock, until a detached upper portion rests only on a small central base.
Now they surged out from the fissure, now in; ahead for half a yard, then back again; and the fissure mocked their toil.
Five minutes, each of which sounded a separate eternity, and the fissure was past.
A yard away a fissure in the rock grinned at them.
Now an air-hole ate into the ice, and ate and ate; or a fissure formed, and grew, and failed to freeze again.
On the instant the fissure grinned in their faces, and the next they were below the bluffs, drifting gently in the eddy.
The struggle by the fissure was immeasurable; she knew not how long it lasted; and the race down Split-up to Roubeau Island was a thing of which her reason convinced her, but of which she recollected nothing.
The ordinary mode of effecting the cure is to split a young ash-sapling longitudinally for a few feet and pass the child, naked, either three times or three times three through the fissure at sunrise.
As soon as the ceremony has been performed, the tree is bound tightly up and the fissureplastered over with mud or clay.
The same conception of a fissure in a tree as an obstacle placed in the path of pursuing spirits meets us in a number of savage customs.
One floats and wavers like a spineless ribbon of seaweed in the water; another burns with a steady radiance; a third blares from its fissure like a flame driven by the blowpipe.
This form the fissure took, in one enormous sweep and drop towards the mouth of the valley.
Suddenly we came upon a wide fissurestretched obliquely like the mouth of a sole.
Deposits of the fissurevein type, such as California quartz veins.
It has some basis in experience, especially in fissure veins, but has little foundation in theory and is applicable over but limited areas and under limited conditions.
And, suddenly, in a startling fashion, they came to a fissure in the ice!
Having seen one great fissure in the ice, he might come upon another.
We used to sit out in the garden and grounds there and watch the Peregrines about their nest, which was situated in a gaping fissure perhaps two-thirds of the distance up the face of the cliff.
Time after time we watched these Falcons dart down from the higher air with both wings closed and enter the fissure which contained their nest.
These were found in an ancient fissure filled with rocks of Comanchic age, traversing the Carboniferous strata in which the coal seam lay, and with them were skeletons of other extinct reptiles of smaller size.
A single glance into this great fissure convinced them that it was impassable.
Sometimes only a very small portion of a glacier moves, causing a fissure above the part that has given way; and at other times these fissures are closed up, by the sliding of that portion next above them.
Immediately, there came a shower of balls from both banks, along with a perfect cloud of arrows, but without doing the balloon any damage, where it rested with its anchor snugly secured in the fissure of a rock.
All at once a sharp shock was felt--the anchor had caught in the fissure of some rock hidden in the high grass.
It is some four hundred feet high, and at one point not a fissure or sprig can be discovered to mar the polished surface of the rock till it reaches the water.
He leapt fissure after fissure like a young roe, fled to the top of the Downfall and looked over.
A gloomy fissure in the ground was there, of a depth almost reaching to the infernal gods, where the yew-tree spread thick its horizontal branches, at all times excluding the light of the sun.
The radiance was that of the full, setting, and blood-red moon which now shone vividly through that once barely discernible fissure of which I have before spoken as extending from the roof of the building, in a zigzag direction, to the base.
The lava filling of such a crack or fissure is known as a dike.
Subsequent wash of water may cut away the softer bordering material, leaving the hard filling of the fissure as a sharp ridge.
