What is "fissures"

Usage examples of "fissures".

After the lapse of ten or fifteen minutes, the green rind embrowns and cracks, showing through the fissures in its sides the milk-white interior.

There were fissures gaping in the ground around him, the widest of them a yard across, and growing.

Once they passed another of the great, smoking fissures that commonly marred the ground of the vale.

Bhaal learned of the defeat of his flock as the surviving perytons came circling back to the well, and his rage caused deep cracks and gaping fissures to explode throughout the land, tearing still further at the wasteland of the vale.

Stepping over the still quiescent fissures, she walked hastily southward along the wall with the wind catching at her heels.

The rooftops of the Temple District stretched out in all directions, a jagged landscape slashed with fissures through which the streetlights far below shone.

As they moved, their charred skin cracked open in fissures ember red and glowing like those on a half-burnt log.

With this he conducted me to the verge of the cataract, and pointed along the side of the ravine to a number of curious looking roots, some three or four inches in thickness, and several feet long, which, after twisting among the fissures of the rock, shot perpendicularly from it and ran tapering to a point in the air, hanging over the gulf like so many dark icicles.