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- verb Present participle of
crevice .
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Examples
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'To express satisfaction the Casterbridge market-man added to his utterance a broadening of the cheeks, a crevicing of the eyes,
The Bibliotaph and Other People Leon H. Vincent
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This pass, crevicing under the solid feet of two great stony kopjes, was the only place the Boers would be likely to try their luck at.
From Capetown to Ladysmith An Unfinished Record of the South African War G. W. Steevens
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To express satisfaction the Casterbridge market-man added to his utterance a broadening of the cheeks, a crevicing of the eyes, a throwing back of the shoulders, which was intelligible from the other end of the street.
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a broadening of the cheeks, a crevicing of the eyes, a throwing back of the shoulders, which was intelligible from the other end of the street.
The Mayor of Casterbridge Thomas Hardy 1884
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