A long fissure formed in the street after the earthquake.    From LearnThat.org. 

A noxious, sulfuric smell that says that this fissure is a vent for the same gases that make the hot springs so warm and bubbly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing: September 24, 2006 - September 30, 2006 Archives] Reference

The result will be the formation of a vein belonging to the variety known as fissure veins.    From Wordnik.com.  [Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography] Reference

The sunlight showed, too, that the fissure was the skylight of a cave which opened out on the ravine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tropic Days] Reference

The anterior rhinal fissure, which is present in the early human foetus, vanishes (almost, if not altogether) in the adult.    From Wordnik.com.  [Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man] Reference

Passing backward through the fissure are the ophthalmic vein and the recurrent branch from the lacrimal artery to the dura mater.    From Wordnik.com.  [II. Osteology. 5c. The Exterior of the Skull] Reference

We did so, but it appeared that the spot at which we originally struck the fissure was the narrowest place; it widened at either side.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference

Did they really say the girl had a "fissure," then roll her over so everyone could have a look?.    From Wordnik.com.  ['The Closer' recap: Enter the Baldwin | EW.com] Reference

Petra has three so-called "fissure" mines in South Africa.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gold Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha] Reference

Hundreds of abortion opponents protested on campus Sunday, and the priests said the invitation has opened a "fissure" between.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! News: Top Stories] Reference

"fissure" cracking the axis of the House of Usher.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hog's Head] Reference

The position and extent of the fissure or seam vary.    From Wordnik.com.  [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference

In a deep fissure is the source of the Cusane. 3¼ m.    From Wordnik.com.  [The South of France—East Half] Reference

"Likely some fissure in the rock has suddenly opened.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Omega, the Man] Reference

 He stays in, deep in, a granite fissure in Manhattan.    From Wordnik.com.  [e] Reference

The fissure was in an underpopulated area in the southern New Mexico.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Vault of Jean Maria Schwartz in Heaven] Reference

"We lived here for two months," he says, pointing into a hidden fissure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ghosts Of Cheju] Reference

The torn vines where Creed had fallen through the fissure instantly caught his eye.    From Wordnik.com.  [Judith of the Cumberlands] Reference

It is divided into two lateral lobes or hemispheres by a deep longitudinal fissure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference

This consists in preventing motion in the margins of the fissure so far as possible.    From Wordnik.com.  [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference

But now there is fissure between pro-choice leaders inside and outside of government.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Abortion Divide] Reference

It springs up between the flags of the pavement, on an arid wall, in the fissure of a rock.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Simple Life] Reference

There in a shaded thicket we chanced on a deep fissure in the rock that led into ... a cave.    From Wordnik.com.  [The deadly lure of cave paintings] Reference

Then ameteorthe size of a Walmart and a lot heavier fell to earth, creating fissure, steam, death.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Vault of Jean Maria Schwartz in Heaven] Reference

The restorers had to mend a widening fissure that extended nearly the entire height of the north face.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rebuilding The Colosseum] Reference

But the fissure did not increase in length or breadth, and, presently the rumbling, roaring sound subsided.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Swift and His Wireless Message: or, the castaways of Earthquake island] Reference

It is the illusion caused by superheated steam escaping through a fissure in the rock and dividing the water.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference

"The DPJ now lives with a deep fissure in its foundation," said Minoru Morita, an independent political analyst.    From Wordnik.com.  [Japan's Stability Faces Challenge with Ozawa Run] Reference

A wink from one old miner to another, and hundreds mounted their horses to seek some inaccessible mountain fissure.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866] Reference

At last, toward evening, the monster came through the forest, returning from his trap in a deep fissure of the earth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Famous Tales of Fact and Fancy Myths and Legends of the Nations of the World Retold for Boys and Girls] Reference

Calyptriform or hood-like pitchers, formed by the complete union of the margins, and falling off by a transverse fissure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference

There was only one pathway, and that was through a narrow fissure, barely wide enough for one big man to walk through it.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Woman at Bay Or, a Fiend in Skirts] Reference

It seemed as if Japan were opened to our view through an enchanted fissure, allowing us to penetrate into her very heart.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

From space, the giant fissure known as Africa's Great Rift Valley is one of the most prominent geological features on earth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tribal Record] Reference

They also gathered branches of the fragrant fir balsam, with which they lined the fissure in the rock on which Ralph's body was lying.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peak's Island A Romance of Buccaneer Days] Reference

The inferior fissure does not extend as far as the gray commissure, leaving the lateral inferior columns connected by a white commissure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference