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.
Presently the dry wood sent out a flame which illuminated every crevice, and Mary saw that the old man was lying quietly with his head turned a little on one side.
He was not much acquainted with valves of any sort, but he knew that valvae were folding-doors, and through this crevice came a sudden light startling him with his first vivid notion of finely adjusted mechanism in the human frame.
The heel of her pretty, foolish shoe caught in a crevice of the switch.
All the news that could be gained was that remotenesses of the cavern were being ransacked that had never been visited before; that every corner and crevice was going to be thoroughly searched; that wherever one wandered through the maze of passages, lights were to be seen flitting hither and thither in the distance, and shoutings and pistol-shots sent their hollow reverberations to the ear down the sombre aisles.
The massive crevice in Kenya measures 50 feet deep and 65 feet wide and has destroyed part of the Nairobi-Narok highway.
"Look," said the musician, "if thou wilt learn to fiddle, put thy fore paws into this crevice.
Crevice and device and aerie.
Then , in a crevice on the broken stones of the terrace, he saw something bright and beady.
"Look," said the musician, "if thou wilt learn to fiddle, put thy fore paws into this crevice.
The end of the beard was caught in a crevice of the tree, and the little fellow was jumping about like a dog tied to a rope, and did not know what to do.
But when she began to eat, a paddock came creeping out of a crevice in the wall, dipped its little head in the dish, and ate with her.
And as she thought to herself, in this no man can help you, she climbed up to the sun, and said to him, you shine into every crevice, and over every peak, have you not seen a white dove flying.
She took up the thimble, and wanted to get hold of him, but little thumbling hopped into the cloth, and while the mistress was opening it out and looking for him, he got into a crevice in the table.
"What is to happen will happen," exclaimed the last, as he was shot out of the pea-shooter; and as he spoke he flew up against an old board under a garret-window, and fell into a little crevice, which was almost filled up with moss and soft earth.
The trunk, it is true, was cleft in the middle from the root to the crown; the storms had bent it a little, but it still stood there, and out of every crevice and cleft, in which wind and weather had carried mould, blades of grass and flowers sprang forth.
The trunk has been split, and out of the crevice grass and brambles grow.
