The other three baited their hooks with worms, and, all being in readiness, made their way down the steep bank at a place where a little cleft gave easier access to a tiny shelving beach below.
Presently Benita looked up and saw that she was under the thorn which grew in the cleft of the rock.
This giddy path they followed for about twenty paces, to find that it ended in a cleft in the wall so narrow that only one person could walk through it at a time.
We ran along beside them for a matter of ten miles, arriving off a broad cleft which led into what appeared to be another lake.
We scaled the cliffs as far as we could; but near the top they are absolutely perpendicular without any sufficient cleft or protuberance to give hand or foot-hold.
From the birth-cleft ground a spirit has half emerged.
The shot at Sumter cleft the burdened head of Jove.
Their forebears had settled at the back of the cleft in the cliff a hundred years or more before the time of this history.
The range of the Caucasus, like that of the Pyrenees, maintains for considerable distances a high average elevation, and is not cleft by deep trenches, forming natural passes across the range, such as are common in the Alps.
And now we see nothing but the shell, with its smooth rounded back, marked with dark spots, its white inferior surface cleft by this longitudinal denticulate aperture, and its brilliant porcellanous varnish over the whole.
When the inorganic crust of the globe was first cleft to contain rivers, whence came the water that flowed through the fissures?
This cleft is called the Gap, or the Red Gap, and is as wide as the nave of St. Paul's.
The prisoner's cry of thirst rang up to heaven; God heard, and with his thundercleft the earth And poured his sweetest waters gushing here.
God heard and with his thunders cleft the earth, and poured forth his sweetest waters gushing here.
Almost at the moment of this incident I had noticed a dark object shooting past me, at so close a proximity that I distinctly heard the whistling sound as it cleft the air.
This cleft was situated so far from the center of the pupil that it was entirely covered by the iris.
On the other hand, it seems probable that the lateral cleft in the capsule permitted rays of light to pass into the interior of the eye.
On looking from the temporal side in an oblique direction into the pupil, there was visible in the anterior wall of the capsule a very small perpendicular cleft of about one line and a quarter in length.
Guttorm, who had just cleftthe skull of his opponent with his sword.
And ever, as his axe came down, It cleft or crushed another crown.
New life gave spring to his muscles; and to these new feelings he gave vent in one loud shout, as he sprang upon his adversary and cleft him to the chin with one sweep of his sword!
Steep grassy hills, and peaks with gorgescleft by the thundering Dras, and stretches of rolling grass succeeded each other.
He desired the shell of the mollusk that burrowed in the cleft of the cliff.
He even went down into the little valley where the horses were, hoping that through some deep cleft chasm the trail led circuitously to the lake shore.
There would be a pass through the mountains at the northern end of the lake, a deeply cleft gorge, maybe, but from here, with the first dimness of the new night upon everything, there seemed no way through.
A little portion of Baldy, framed in a pine-clad cleft through the First Range, towered chill, rugged and marvellous in its granite and snow.
Quite ingeniously the road discovered a cleft up which it laboured mightily, to land breathless after a heart-breaking pull.
His brethren knew that the Red Sea would be cleft in twain in days to come for Joseph's sake, and they were jealous of the glory to be conferred upon him.
Be not cleft into two heads, for all that the Lord hath made has but one head.
That to the south is long, narrow, and nearly level; it is a deep cleft which runs into the heart of the mountains as far as the west side of the mighty Tupungato, whose glaciers feed its torrent.
On the other side, there rose above us the huge black mass of Ollague,[48] snow patches on its southern side and steam rising in wreaths from a cleft not far below the summit.
Wood cannot be cleft across the grain, but must be cut by sawing or otherwise.
He went round the mound with the cleft birch wand, and when he reached the spot where he was then digging an invisible hand seemed to pull the wand downwards, until it seemed to writhe in his hands, pointing to earth like a finger.
One cleft hoof splashes into a tiny pool of water, the other crushes a small spruce which has been ages about sprouting in the shallow soil, and might have grown to be a big tree.
The cleft spoors stood out with curved outer edges as the spoors of a bull generally are.
Behind her merged head the level just rocked and quivered; cleft by his chin it rebelled in broad ripples.
Over against him rose the remaining moiety; high walls of rock swept round on either side, hindered from complete enclosure by the cleft of his entrance.
Foot after foot he fought that dreadful weight along the sand, right up to the cleft, right across the cleft he forced it.
I like to believe that one of them had a deep cleft in the back of the head, where Ulf's axe sank in.
It was plain that when a torrent, or when in repose, thecleft held just the same quantity of water, from the dead-level line down.
But when he looked up to thecleft through which he had to make his way, his spirit failed him.
He had heard the men on shore say that if once he were at the mouth of the cleft he should be past the worst, as he should then be in sight of the yacht, from which a rope could be thrown to him.
Another thing too, had been in his favour: the rock against which he had been thrown had a small cleft in it, and into this cleft he had been jambed by the force of the water.
Not a gallon more water was below the low-level water-line when the bore dashed through the cleft than a second before the incoming of the wave.
He had made only four strokes after entering the cleft when he heard the next wave burst upon the beach, and saw the hoary head of the bore rushing down upon him.
He had a considerable distance to go before he got out of the cleft and within sight of the yacht, which lay to the southward a little off where he was.
But the fierce waters struck his head and shoulders before he was under water, and threw him upright in the water, turned him over on his back and shot him head foremost from the cleft into the open water beyond.
At several places ice blocks were heaped up so that its surface was hummocky and cleft by crevasses.
Racey ran to where a windfall lay near the edge of the cleft and some forty yards from the stringer.
We'll have to grow wings in a hurry," he said, soberly, thinking of the deep cleft spanned by the bridge.
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.
They had stopped at the bridge head, Racey had dismounted, and she, was looking down into the dark mouth of the cleft with frightened eyes.
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