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I thought it was a cave but it was actually a crevise (that word just sounds nasty) caused by an earthquake.
marilynnv Diary Entry marilynnv 2005
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_Foul-arse_, Gossip _Order-all_, and Goody _Dirty-buttocks_, will be peeping into every crevise and cranny: And because they will do it forsooth, according to their fashion, they make a shew as if they must go to the necessary Chamber, with a Letter to _Gravesend_, only to take an inspection whether it be as cleanly there as it is upon the
The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple A. Marsh
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In briefe, to open a little crevise of further light, and to give a little glimpse of heat: Zeale is to the soule, that which the spirits are to the bodie; wine to the spirits, putting vigour and agility into them.
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Dep {ar} te the crevise a-sondir {e} euyñ to your {e} sight,
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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They bring a little earth to any crevise of lava, and plant a prickly pear tree.
Documenting the American South: The Southern Experience in 19-th Century America 1844
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When this "iceman" died 5,300 years ago, the crevise he died in was lower than the level of the glacier that would later form.
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When this "iceman" died 5,300 years ago, the crevise he died in was lower than the level of the glacier that would later form.
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When this "iceman" died 5,300 years ago, the crevise he died in was lower than the level of the glacier that would later form.
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When this "iceman" died 5,300 years ago, the crevise he died in was lower than the level of the glacier that would later form.
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As a follow-up to my previous post about geographic ignorance, the comedy of Sasha Cohen’s character Borat thrives in this crevise between the world we know and don’t know: that Kazakhstan might as well be an imaginary country to most Americans.
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