Sentence examples for stone fissures from inspiring English sources

Prising the landscape open to reveal dark stone fissures, the building hunkers down low, almost invisible from most directions.

First comes the raw exposure to the subject matter: in the countryside the roving eye waits to alight on something, anything, that holds it - stone, rock, fissure, fall of water, bole of tree - and the sketch is made on the spot.

Known as the Franciscan Mount Sinai, it was here in the white cave and this desolate stone fissure that Francis spent 40 days in the winter of 1223, praying, fasting and rewriting his original Rule to accommodate the exploding numbers of his increasingly fractious followers.

There's actually quite a lot of vegetation around the castle (and only Rilke could have imagined the gentle slopes nearby to be mountains), but the path itself is pure karst: fantastical water-eroded stone, fissured into what geologists call clints and grykes — blocks and cracks — and fluted like cake icing or pinched into rigid waves like an arrested ocean.

Jane Cummins (now Jane Alison), the author of "The Sisters Antipodes," tells us that the "split," as she bluntly calls these ­rearrangements, left the four girls in shock — a "numb shock like a crack inside a stone... silently fissuring".

This has left some of the stone shattered and fissured and and too weak for reuse.

Olms are gregarious, and usually aggregate either under stones or in fissures.

The Civil War divided the Lane-Stone family along many fissures.

Apparently that niche, sealed with a blocking stone, had a geological fissure that kept water from seeping in and rotting the material.

Shale gas is embedded in dense rock, so drillers use a mixture of water, sand, and chemicals to open up fissures in the stone through which it can escape.

Most unique souvenir: Something I fondly refer to as the Jesus stone because the cracks and fissures on the rock reminded me of an image of Jesus' head and shoulders, with hands in prayer.