Do we say crevasse or crevice

crevasse 77 occurrences

The uppermost crevasse, or "bergschrund," where the névé was attached to the mountain, was from 12 to 14 feet wide, and was bridged in a few places by the remains of snow avalanches.

A series of rugged zigzags enabled me to make my way down into the weird under-world of the crevasse.

It is probably deep in some crevasse or under the snows which surround the base of the Matterhorn....

All along the side of the cliff, as far as could be seen in both directions, the ice did not touch it, but there was this marginal crevasse seven feet wide and of unknown depth.

One of our porters was short-legged and a bad iceman; the other was a daring fellow, and he now threw the knapsack from his shoulders, came to the edge of the crevasse, looked into it, but drew back again.

I accordingly interposed, the man withdrew from the crevasse, and he and Simond descended to fetch the ladder.

After supper Simond went out to inspect the glacier, and was observed by Huxley, as twilight fell, in a state of deep contemplation beside a crevasse.

We were glad to get out of the range of these terrible projectiles, and still more so to escape the vicinity of that ugly crevasse.

I thus led the way to the base of the Rochers Bouges, up to which the fault already referred to had prolonged itself as a crevasse, which was roofed at one place by a most dangerous-looking snow-bridge.

Simond, who had come to the front to cross the crevasse, was now engaged in cutting steps, which he made deep and large, so that they might serve us on our return.

This wall was no doubt the upper side of a crevasse, the lower part of which had been filled by snow-drift.

The people who had been watching us from the Wengern Alp had been firing salutes all day, whenever the idea struck them, and whenever we surmounted a difficulty, such as the first great crevasse.

"One thing, however, astonished him; it was to find so little water in the bottom of the crevasse.

It is believed to lie buried deep in some crevasse in one of the great glaciers that emerge from the base of the Matterhorn.]

Urging being of no avail the rider dismounts, strikes a match, advances a cautious step or so, and finds himself at the precipitous brink of a newly formed crevasse.

He'd have to go farther inland to find his free range, but now, worst of all, the floating gardens of the coast swamps were coming out of the numberless channels on the crevasse water.

I cain't see nothin' but lilies east'ardworlds o'flowers comin' with the crevasse water behind 'em."

It was really a sort of crevasse in a tilted berg parallel to the original surface; the strata on either side had bent outwards; through the back the sky could be seen through a screen of beautiful iciclesit looked a royal purple, whether by contrast with the blue of the cavern or whether from optical illusion I do not know.

We have not struck a crevasse all day, which is a good sign.

After half an hour of this I looked round and found the second sledge halted some way in rearevidently someone had gone into a crevasse.

Lashly says the crevasse was 50 feet deep and 8 feet across, in form U, showing that the word 'unfathomable' can rarely be applied.

After topping the crevasse ridge we got on a better surface and came along fairly well, completing over 7 miles (geo.)

When he was down in the crevasse he wanted to go off exploring, but we dissuaded him.

He kept on saying, 'I wonder why this is running the way it isyou expect to find them at right angles.' Scott found inside crevasse warmer than above, but had no thermometer.

To civilized people from corn and cattle and wheat-field countries the cañon at first sight seems as uninhabitable as a glacier crevasse, utterly silent and barren.

crevice 306 occurrences

A pale, cold light became slowly perceptible, stealing through a crevice, and revealing the walls and ceiling of my narrow room.

" "There's a waterfall coming down out of a crevice between them," Bert said; "I know what's happened, the valley is flooded.

It seemed that he was bound for the School of the Sisters of the True Faith, for as he approached its gate, built solidly within the thickness of the high wall, without so much as a crack or crevice through which the curious might peep, he drew rein, and sat motionless on his well-trained horse, listening.

Stepping on the lowest flag, he thrust a small iron spike to which a cord was attached, into a crevice between two of the stones, and left his boat to the security of this characteristic fastening.

Then, pushing his hand down between the seat and the back of the sofa, he moved it along the crevice inch by inch.

If it hadn't been dusk you would have seen that I gave you a dark green leather letter-casequite different from this, though of about the same lengthrather less thick, and" Frantically she began ransacking the crevice between the seat and back of the sofa, but nothing was there.

Parting the undergrowth and crawling carefully in, I discovered at the base a kind of hollow crevice just long enough to lie down in at full length.

But nothe right wheel caught in an ice-crevice.

For a time he amused himself by searching every corner and crevice of his prison room, but he found nothing of interest beyond what he had already discovered.

He hurried to the place whence the sound came, and found that the poor dog had fallen into a deep pit or crevice in the rocks, which had been concealed from view by a crust of snow, and he was now making frantic but unavailing efforts to leap out.

The larches and cedars diminished gradually in size and numbers, until the straggling and stinted tree became a bush, and the latter finally disappeared in the shape of a tuft of pale green, that adhered to some crevice in the rocks like so much moss.

We mounted the barometer in the snow of the summit, and fixing a ramrod in a crevice, unfurled the national flag to wave in the breeze, where never flag waved before.

A SUMMER-HOUSE [MARGARET runs in, hides behind the door, holds the tip of her finger to her lip, and peeps through the crevice.]

Of the latter six, the one we saw in action on entering the basin ejected from a crevice of irregular form, and about four feet long by three wide, a column of water of corresponding magnitude to the height of one hundred feet.

Around this crevice or mouth the sediment is piled in many capricious shapes, chiefly indented globules from six inches to two feet in diameter.

Deep soft moss covered whatever was beneath, and sometimes this would yield and let the foot measure a crevice.

A tremendous noise and riot arose from within, and, applying his eye to a convenient crevice in the wall, he did not remain long in ignorance of its meaning.

After the vineyards came the dry rock, that held, however, sufficient moisture for the wild fig-tree, wherever it could find a deep, crevice.

It was solidnot a crevice or a break through which might have travelled the sound of his voice or the explosion of a gun.

The captain told me of one brave Albanian who had fallen wounded from his horse and taken shelter in a crevice of the rocks, and who had killed two Montenegrins and wounded a third before he was disposed of by one of them getting behind him and shooting him through a crevice in the sheltering rocks.

The captain told me of one brave Albanian who had fallen wounded from his horse and taken shelter in a crevice of the rocks, and who had killed two Montenegrins and wounded a third before he was disposed of by one of them getting behind him and shooting him through a crevice in the sheltering rocks.

The whole of the back country was one great rolling distance of glacier, and, wherever a crevice or gorge in the riven cliffs afforded an opportunity, this ocean of land-ice sent down spurs into the sea, the extremities of which were constantly shedding off huge bergs into the water.

Towards the close of the storm snow fell in great abundance, and when the mariners ventured again to put their heads up the opened hatchways, the decks were knee-deep, the drift to windward was almost level with the bulwarks, every yard was edged with white, every rope and cord had a light side and a dark, every point and truck had a white button on it, and every hole, corner, crack, and crevice was choked up.

Or from the crevice peer'd about.

" The streets seemed to me like rat holes, dark and wandering as chance directed, with just an occasional rift of sky, seen as if through an occasional crevice, so different from the boulevards widening out into bright space with fountains and clouds of green foliage.

Do we say   crevasse   or  crevice