Clefts

Another vehicle took him through the Park to the darkened mansion of the Van Clefts '.

The Voice on the Wire Eustace Hale Ball

Clefts or rills are long cracks or fissures of considerable depth, which extend sometimes for hundreds of miles across the various strata of which the Moon's crust is composed.

The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' Thomas Nathaniel Orchard

Clefts hoarse with wind, and saw through narrowing reefs

Atalanta in Calydon Algernon Charles Swinburne 1873

His claws are like the Clefts of the Rock; his shoulders like its pinnacles; his belly deep into its every fissure -- glued down -- loaded down; his bat's wings cannot lift him, they are rudimentary wings only.

Lectures on Landscape Delivered at Oxford in Lent Term, 1871 John Ruskin 1859

Clefts of rocks, holes in the Ground, old Stumps of trees and the hollow trunks of falling timber; in this respect resemble the rat always haveing their habitation in or near the earth.

The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791

Clefts in granite rocks in which metals are found.

The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation Erasmus Darwin 1766

Its steep and lofty Clefts towards the Sea, secure this charming Country from the Invasions of the King of the Island _Alniob_.

The Amours of Zeokinizul, King of the Kofirans Translated from the Arabic of the famous Traveller Krinelbol Claude Prosper Jolyot de Cr��billon 1742

O this _Running to the Rock_; 'tis the best Preservation in the World; the _Vultures_ of _Hell_ cannot prey upon the _Doves_ in the _Clefts_ of that _Rock_.

The Wonders of the Invisible World Being an Account of the Tryals of Several Witches Lately Executed in New-England, to which is added A Farther Account of the Tryals of the New-England Witches Cotton Mather 1695

From which and other Circumstances my Author gathers; That by the warmth of the place, the Noble Metalline Spirits, (Sulphureous and Mercurial) were carri'd from the neighbouring Galleries or Vaults, through other smaller Cracks and Clefts, into that Cavity, and there collected as in

The Sceptical Chymist or Chymico-Physical Doubts & Paradoxes, Touching the Spagyrist's Principles Commonly call'd Hypostatical; As they are wont to be Propos'd and Defended by the Generality of Alchymists. Whereunto is præmis'd Part of another Discourse relating to the same Subject. Robert Boyle 1659

Clefts are usually NOT repaired in developing countries because most of the families are too poor to afford surgery and the government will not provide free surgery.

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