Creux

At the foot of Montchal, S. side, is the Creux-de-Sancy, a circular cavity 55 ft. deep, at the bottom of which a stream of water is seen, supposed to come from Lake Pavin.

The South of France—East Half C. B. Black

The _coup de Joran_, most sudden and devastating of mountain winds, is on the way from the precipice of the Creux du Van.

A Prisoner in Fairyland Algernon Blackwood 1910

'Soon the sabot de Venus will be in flower at the Creux du

A Prisoner in Fairyland Algernon Blackwood 1910

We waited till they died away, and then climbed the hill to Les Lâches and sped across by the old ruins, with a wide berth to the great Creux at the head of Derrible Bay, and down over the Hog's Back into

Carette of Sark John Oxenham 1896

So we came along the horse tracks down by Pointe Robert and crossed the head of the Harbour Road, past Derrible, and heard the sea growling at the bottom of the Creux, and then over Hog's Back into Dixcart Valley, and so, about noon, into the road over the Common which led to the Coupée.

Carette of Sark John Oxenham 1896

We were running a short slant past Moie Batarde, before taking a long one for the Grands Bouillons, when a flutter of white among the wild black rocks of the point by the Creux à Vaches caught my eye, and surely it was

Carette of Sark John Oxenham 1896

Back across Hog's Back, past the old mill, through the fields by La Forge, and along the hill-path by Les Lâches, and down the hill, slipping and stumbling, and into the Creux tunnel with only one fear -- that I might arrive too late.

Carette of Sark John Oxenham 1896

"And what special business brings you to Sark, Pixley?" asked Graeme, as they passed through the tunnel of rock and climbed the steep way of the Creux -- its high banks masses of ferns, its hedges ablaze with honeysuckle and roses, its trees interwoven into a thick canopy overhead, -- a living green tunnel shot with quivering sunbeams.

Pearl of Pearl Island John Oxenham 1896

"See that some of them don't slip away to the Creux or Dixcart, while we're busy with the others here, Carré," he said, as I tied up his head with his own kerchief, and then dragged him down into a little hollow where no shots could reach him.

Carette of Sark John Oxenham 1896

There was time indeed for catastrophe yet, and our anxieties would not be ended till Creux harbour was in sight.

Carette of Sark John Oxenham 1896