Whenever it might have been that the volcanic eruption which had shivered the rocks into their present fissured condition had occurred, it had left this spot so surrounded by deep crevices as to render it impregnable, save by the rude causeway which connected it with the exterior level.
"A Girl's Ride in Iceland"
Ethel Brilliana Alec-Tweedie
Below, about the usual water-line, it was seamed and fissured, but its summit rose up in a narrow, flat-topped peak.
"Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906"
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Fissures indicate a stretching of the earth's crust, and, therefore, probably changes in its level; but these coral-islands, which have been shaken and fissured, certainly have not been elevated, and, therefore, probably they have subsided.
"Coral-Reefs"
Darwin, Charles