cleft

• With his left hand he held a long stick, cleft at one end, and in the cleft was a letter Come here, Stomp," said Bessie, and as she spoke a wild hope shot across her heart like a meteor across the night: perhaps the letter was from John The dog obeyed her unwillingly enough, for evidently he did not like that Kafir; and when he saw that Stomp was well out of the way the Kafir himself followed. —  Jess
• The brink of the cleft is the height of a man above him. —  Eric Brighteyes
• With his left hand he held a long stick, cleft at one end, and in the cleft was a letter. —  Jess
• Inside the cleft was a second guidance mark, which pointed right up it with the tip somewhat elevated, as if the spot indicated were above the level of the ground. —  The Lost World
• In the cleft was a kind of curious snow, dry like sand, creaking and binding together under foot -- amazingly like pounded ice. —  Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895

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