Their conclusions are, in general, that at some past time the moon was a hot and fluid body which, as it cooled and condensed, formed a solid crust whose further shrinkage compressed the liquid nucleus and led to a long series of Fractures in the crust and outbursts of liquid matter, whose latest and feeblest stages produced the lunar craters, while traces of the earlier ones, connected with a general settling of the crust, although nearly obliterated, are still preserved in certain large but vague features of the lunar topography, such as the distribution of the seas, etc.
"A Text-Book of Astronomy"
George C. Comstock
The greater part, too, of the mischief, appears recent: the Fractures of the walls are fresh and sharp; and the fresco-paintings are unchanged.
"Account of a Tour in Normandy, Vol. II. (of 2)"
Dawson Turner
Van den Rosen was the victim of a burglary: some of the furniture in her room was broken into, and the tests I made this morning with the dynamometer proved to me that you are not strong enough to have caused those Fractures.
"Fantômas"
Pierre Souvestre Marcel Allain