The open rift of sky that he had recognised a few moments before was now filled, as though a mountain had suddenly been moved into the gap.
"The Shepherd of the North"
Richard Aumerle Maher
Sometimes a long streak of sunny green-as sharp as the edge of a knife-far out at sea told that there was some unseen rift declaring itself overhead in that watery sky.
"The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols"
William Black
"It may have been nothing more than a rift in it; though, of course, I may be all wrong.
"The Ghost Pirates"
William Hope Hodgson