Literary notes about Crevice (AI summary)
Writers employ the word "crevice" to evoke both tangible and symbolic spaces that reveal hidden dangers or secrets. In some works, it describes a literal narrow gap—whether a rocky fissure sheltering wild plants and animals [1][2] or an opening through which characters seek escape or concealment [3][4]. In other narratives, the term transforms into a metaphor for restrictive circumstances or the imperceptible passages of time and memory, as when it represents the smallest lapse in one’s defenses or an overlooked detail revealing a larger truth [5][6]. This dual capacity to ground a scene in physical reality while suggesting deeper emotional or existential confinement makes "crevice" a potent and versatile element in literary imagery.
- The rocky banks of the island were adorned with beautiful evergreens, which sprang up spontaneously in every nook and crevice.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie - Here and there, in a moist crevice, a glow-worm shed forth its greenish-yellow glow, to let you know it was night time and summer.
— from Buffalo Roost A Story of a Young Men's Christian Association Boys' Department by Frank H. (Frank Howbert) Cheley - He ran after Mikko and was about to overtake him when Mikko slipped into a crevice in the rocks.
— from Mighty Mikko: A Book of Finnish Fairy Tales and Folk Tales by Parker Fillmore - He looked through the crevice thus produced, between the door and the post, before he ventured into the room himself.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins - Through costly-coloured glass and paper-mended window, through cathedral dome and rotten crevice, it shed its equal ray.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens - And why, on the contrary, does he force me to believe in money hidden in a crevice, in the dungeons of the castle of Udolpho?
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
