Sentence examples for earth cracking from inspiring English sources

Stravinsky said that he modelled the score on the Russian spring: it was like "the whole earth cracking".

And then took three careful steps back, the parched earth cracking beneath his feet like fresh ice over snow.

His two children are already there, having died in an earlier car crash, but his beloved wife (Annabella Sciorra) is back on earth, cracking from her grief.

Asked by Mr. Craft in a mock interview published in 1960, "What do you love most in Russia?" Stravinsky answered, "the violent Russian spring that seemed to begin in an hour and was like the whole earth cracking".

With eyelets perforating shirts and pants, biceps heaving under airy jackets and a print that looked like the earth cracking open, this was a startling new vision of the septuagenarian designer, who showed his humorous side, although some many not find black military uniforms so funny.

(Ansel Adams once noted: "When O'Keeffe smiles, the earth cracks open").

"What Griswold depicts is a community, like the earth, cracked open," our reviewer wrote.

In Alaska, the ground is riddled with ice wedges that were created during the last glaciation, when the cold earth cracked and the cracks filled with water.

He vows that he will watch over the woman and her daughter, "even if the sky should fall or the earth crack open with a roar".

Several weeks ago, before the earth cracked open on Wall Street, Imam Khalid Latif had a chat with one of his regular worshipers at the Muslim center at New York University.

But as he went to clear debris from a two-lane highway after more than a half-foot of rain, rocklike drops pounded the windows, and he heard the earth "crack" around him as the land began to slide.