And so, I suppose the water goes on, thundering down into that bottomless hell-pit.

He fell down that little pit o' Wright's, Mr Lea, he did."

Overhead the dark and bulky cylinders cut against the reflected glimmer on the skylights; below, valve-gear and connecting-rod flashed across the gloom, and the twinkling cranks spun in their shallow pit.

Five minutes later, I stood on the spot from which I had started; having been completely 'round, what I guessed now to be a vast pit, the mouth of which must be at least a hundred yards across.

We may in truth say, Our Heavenly Father has plucked our feet out of a horrible pit and out of the miry clay, and set them upon a rock, and put a new song into our mouth, even praise to his glorious name.

Do you know what Soma told the Professor about the bad men falling into this infernal pit?" I nodded my head.

The youngster's eyes opened as he looked again at the circular pit with its brilliantly tinted sides.

The blackened stokers looked like grim demons of the fiery pit as they labored at the coal, which they were shoveling into the mouths of the greedy furnaces.

Here, distant from the mouth of the mighty pit by some hundreds of yards, we came upon a great lake of silent watersilent, that is, save in one place where there was a continuous bubbling and gurgling.

Here we have not only numerous pits from ten to seventy feet in diameter and from five to seven feet deep, but really vast excavations leading to galleries which tap a belt or band of flints.

As soon as I was able to move, I wandered to the lesser plague-pit, in Finsbury Fields, you will guess with what intent.

Now when three men are employed upon a pit some six feet square they obviously cannot all work at the same time in so confined a space.

A dry pit or frame is sufficient protection in the winter; they merely require to be kept from frost.

He only understood that it went swiftly, swaying from side to side through a sable pit.

But a little while before, she, like himself, had come from yonder, and would have fallen unless a friendly hand had restrained her; and the frightful shudder of that moment yet palpitated in her veins; she could still and ever see the damp black pit with the little lantern far below.

And during all that night no man of us slept, and the burning of the fungi sent up a mighty pillar of flame out of the valley, as out of the mouth of a monstrous pit and when the morning came it still burned.

The rays of the sun blazing down upon the stained sides of the mysterious pit made the veins of colour appear like brilliant snakes.

It was not he, but the poise that had been given him, through which he was enabled to cry out in gratitude this hour; for the soul of man meets a deadlier dragon in intellectual arrogance than in the foulest pits of flesh.

It was necessary, moreover, in depicting the poor man's patroness, to show the material on which she worked; and those who know the poor, know also that we can no more judge truly of their characters in the presence of their benefactors, than we can tell by seeing clay in the potter's hands what it was in its native pit.

Moreover, they had dug an immense pit in the church-yard, long and broad, and fifteen feet deep, two-thirds of which profundity were discolored by human decay and mixed up with crumbly bones.

There was a vast silence about him, a silence as deep and as unbroken as the abysmal pit in which he seemed to be softly floating.

No one spoke to me, they even appeared to hasten over their dreadful task, and I speedily found myself descending into the gloomy pit, with my seven loaves and pitcher of water beside me.

"He took me from a fearful pit, And from the miry clay, And on a rock He set my feet, Establishing my way.

Milton, Comus, 136, etc. (1634.) COULIN, a British giant pursued by Debon till he came to a chasm 132 feet across which he leaped; but slipping on the opposite side, he fell backwards into the pit and was killed. And eke that ample pit yet far renowned For the great leap which Debon did compell Coulin to make, being eight lugs of grownd, Into which the returning back he fell.

Around them loomed the black, wet walls of this lowest stone dungeon with but one other exitthe pit at their feet.