30 Verbs to Use for the Word cleft

He confessed that she had found a cleft in his armour, and there was an uneasy thrill in his blood.

Below it we entered an open cleft of some size to another squarer cave.

It is quite conceivableit is a very serious dangerthat at this discussion skilful diplomacy on the part of the Central Powers may open a cleft among the Allies that has never appeared during the actual war.

While they shouted and cursed, his gaze never left the cleft in the hills.

It had filled up all the clefts in the mountain; and lakes and rivers and brooks; these one saw everywhere, to say nothing of swamps and morasses, which spread over large tracts.

The last resting places of our Neolithic ancestors are scattered in great numbers about the heights that enfold the narrow cleft of the infant stream.

A little to my left, the side of the Pit appeared to have collapsed altogether, forming a deep V-shaped cleft in the face of the rocky cliff.

There was a foot-way all along the fields 135 By the brook-side'tis goneand that dark cleft!

I followed that blue line all its length, a hundred miles, down toward the west where it joined a dark purple shadowy cleft.

Grasp the crag, and leap the cleft!

An' let me seethere's the thorn where the cushats biggit; an' there's the auld birk that I ance fell aff an' left my shoe sticking i' the cleft.

Under the cliffs on either hand, like a moat beneath the ramparts, lay a yawning ice-cleft or bergschrund, formed by the drawing away of the steadily moving Barrier ice from the rocks.

Behind the house two rugged hills, their sides of precipitous rock so steep that they hardly afforded a foothold, came down close together, making a V-shaped cleft through which a narrow path ran in the direction of the river.

I love to stand in a limestone quarry and mark the layers and ponderous blocks of clean white virgin rocka tiny cleft in "the great stone floor which stretches over the face of the earth and under the limitless expanse of the sea."

While he looked it gradually filled and obliterated the cleft.

Rocks, earth, chunks and splinters of wood flew up in advance of a rolling cloud of smoke that obscured the cleft from rim to rim.

He broke away from Maka, and ran first in this direction and then in that, and perceiving the cleft in the face of the rock, he blindly rushed into it, as a rat would rush into a hole.

R. Hartig believes that freezing forces out a part of the imbibition water of the cell walls, thereby causing the wood to shrink, and if the interior layers have not yet been cooled, tangential strains arise which finally produce radial clefts.

A third crevice, twice the width of the second, split the rocks, riving a deeper cleft in the mountain that held back the inland sea, making a gorge through the majestic chain of the Cascades and opening a way for the torrent oceanward.

How he had contrived to scramble down the cleft, I could not conceive.

He sought at once protection, probably a cleft in the rock, or an opening of two or three feet under a stony ledge.

For it is a precept in His law, of moral nature, and eternal obligation, "Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God; Him shalt thou serve, and to Him shalt thou cleave, and shalt swear by His name."

We were shown the broken cleft in the wall from which the only one of the devoted men who escaped urged his gallant horse; it was, indeed, a fearful leap, and we gazed upon, the spot and thought of the carnage of that dreadful hour with an involuntary shudder.

Fifty feet above him a natural bridge of rock spanned the huge cleft through which the stream was rushing.

In felled or converted timber clefts due to heart shake may be distinguished from seasoning cracks by the darker color of the exposed surfaces.

30 Verbs to Use for the Word  cleft