...And then he noticed long fissures in the cavern walls, and that the smoke from the lamps drifted toward them... 
Talbot Mundy 「King--of the Khyber Rifles」
...Great rocks rose here and there, but in their fissures rose stately trees, under whose umbrage nestled the villages of the people...
Henry M. Stanley 「How I Found Livingstone」
...The rivers Bengo, Dande, and Onze are denoted by densely wooded fissures breaking the natural sea-wall, and, as usual in West Africa, these lines are the favourite sites for settlements...
Richard F. Burton 「Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2」
...The surface becomes a soft, greasymass; later it cracks open and from the fissures blood-colored pus exudes,being continually formed by the moist degeneration of the tissues beneath...
U.S. Department of Agriculture 「Special Report on Diseases of Cattle」
...But how are the two series of scales obtained, and the fissures, thegates of exit which they shelter? I do not know; I cannot even imagine...
J. H. Fabre Bernard Miall 「Social Life in the Insect World」
..."We had proceeded thus for about a quarter of an hour, when we found that our way led along a rocky cliff, with innumerable fissures...
Samuel Griswold Goodrich 「Illustrative Anecdotes of the Animal Kingdom」
...The plainappears to pant in the pitiless sunshine, bare, dusty,ash-coloured, cracked and seamed as far as the eye can see with anetwork of fissures...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...If we comparedifferent groups of mammals in regard to these fissures and convolutions, wefind that their development proceeds step by step with the advance of mentallife...
Ernst Haeckel 「The Evolution of Man」
...Probablyall such exceptions to the rule are located in natural fissures orcrevices of the sandstone, or where there was some unusual facility forthe excavation of the site to the required depth...
Victor Mindeleff and Cosmos Mindeleff 「A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola」
...So thefire and the heat of the flames, coming up hot from far within throughthe fissures, make the soil there light, and the tufa found there isspongy and free from moisture...
Vitruvius 「Ten Books on Architecture」
...In red tufa it is copious and good, if it does not run downthrough the fissures and escape...
Vitruvius 「Ten Books on Architecture」
...When such springs are not open butconfined by rocks, the force of the air in them drives them up throughthe narrow fissures to the summits of hills...
Vitruvius 「Ten Books on Architecture」
... I had an idea that the well had sprung a leak; that some of the wall stones near the bottom had fallen and exposed fissures that allowed the water to escape...
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 「A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Complete」
... From dozens of fissures high in the rock walls streamed flickering sheets of blue flame which both warmed and lighted the place...
Hal K. Wells 「Devil Crystals of Arret」
...It seemed like five or six enormous pink hay-stacks, leaning for support against one another, with open cracks or fissures between, which came only about half-way down its face...
Ernest Giles 「Australia Twice Traversed, The Romance of Exploration」
...The rills, on the other hand, are actually fissures, about amile or so in width and about a quarter of a mile in depth...
Cecil G. Dolmage 「Astronomy of To-day」
...We see, again, great fissures,almost perfectly straight and of great length, although very narrow,which appear like the cracks in moist clayey soil when dried by thesun...
Richard A. Proctor 「Half-hours with the Telescope」
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