There are four creases: The popping crease, which is also sometimes called the batting crease, marks the boundary beyond which the batter is no longer safe from being run out (taken out of play by the fielding, or defending, team).
They followed Calf Creek and climbed a small trail through the sagebrush, looking out on a sight that resembled "a topographical map," as Dorothy described it, "roll after roll of rounded bare hills with little water creases marking them — and no sign of human being or habitation".
They followed Calf Creek and climbed a small trail through the sagebrush, looking out on a sight that resembled "a topographical map," as Dorothy described it, "roll after roll of rounded bare hills with little water creases marking them and no sign of human being or habitation".
Three deep creases marked his forehead.
Flaws tend to make a person more, not less, human, while context, however uncomfortable or awkward, is the key to understanding how such kinks and creases mark a life.
The bowling and return creases mark the area within which the bowler's rear foot must be grounded in delivering the ball; the popping crease, which is 62 feet (18.9 metres) from the opposing bowling crease, demarks the batsman's ground.
Nor did it reveal any crease marks.
An F.B.I. affidavit said a visible crease mark on the file, a scan of which The Intercept provided to the government while trying to authenticate it, prompted investigators to surmise it was a printout.
They're a triumph of trompe-l'oeil craftsmanship, accurate, down to their grooves, scratches, and crease marks — not to mention a great syllabus (Francis Steegmuller's biography of Jean Cocteau, Wittgenstein's "Remarks on Color," Kerouac's "On the Road" and playlist ("The Velvet Underground & Nico, Gertrude Steinn reading from "The Making of Americans").
