crevasse

• “Across the crevasse was a bridge made of ropes, spangled with lights and tied to the crumbling ruins at either end.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Demons Covenant

• “The crevasse was a great slit, deep into the standing cliff.”

  The Gates of Thorbardin

• “On the far brink of the crevasse were the forms of men, who seemed to be waving their arms in the air and shouting.”

  The People of the Mist

• “Twice I have owed safety to a snow bridge, and it seems to me that the chance of finding some obstruction or some saving fault in the crevasse is a good one, but I am far from thinking that such a chance can be relied upon, and it would be an awful situation to fall beyond the limits of the”

  Scott's Last Expedition Volume I

• “Scientists have known for years that when the river flows free of its banks, in a phenomenon called a crevasse, land forms.”

  The Seattle Times

• “The break in the levee, known as a crevasse, would flush out oil and slowly help build land.”

  WRAL.com Top Stories

• “As now the mass continues to advance, the crevasses must advance with it; and as it moves more rapidly toward the middle than on the margins, that end of the crevasse which is farthest removed from the projecting rock must move more rapidly also; the consequence is, that all the older lateral crevasses, after a certain time, point downward, while the fresh ones point upward.”

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864

• “In very high water an occasional break in a levee, call a "crevasse", may overflow a small local area, but with the present scientific skill and equipment, these breaks are generally closed promptly, with but little damage to land affected.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman

• “Remember, now that underneath this vast body, this "crevasse," lay buried the seed cane, the cotton-seed, the rice, the cereals, the homes, the all of over one hundred thousand people.”

  Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising

• “Among the most disastrous instances of the "crevasse" is that of May, 1816, when the river broke through, nine miles above New Orleans, destroying numbers of plantations, and inundating the back part of the city.”

  The Great South; A Record of Journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian Territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland

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