"Creviced" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Ash asks not a depth of fruitful mould But, like frugality, on little means It thrives; and high o'er creviced ruins spreads Its ample shade, or on the naked rock, That nods in air, with graceful ...
— The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 - Devoted to Literature and National Policy • Various
... a wild and solitary retreat. It was a narrow glade upon the borders of a little pond dried up by the summer heat, near which he had often gathered plants for Stephane. Among groups of trees which straggled up on all sides, under a patch of blue sky, a ground of blackish clay, cracked and creviced, herbage, dried rushes; here and there some patches of stagnant water, the surface of which was rippled by the gambols of the aquatic spider; further on a large tuft of long-plumed reeds, which shivered at the least breath and rocked upon their trembling stems drowsy ...
— Stories of Modern French Novels • Julian Hawthorne
... boyhood, had a boundless love and admiration for the works of nature, for some of his descriptions of that wonderfully creviced and volcano-studded land are truly marvelous in their vivid and beautiful ...
— Hawaiian Folk Tales - A Collection of Native Legends • Various |
