These gaps, as they are called in Virginia, are the natural doorways to the Valley; and as long as General McClellan held them, as he proposed to do, by strong detachments, he would be able both to protect his own communications with the Potomac, and, if he thought fit to do so, enter the Valley and assail the Confederate rear.

All the doctors say that nine gaps out of ten are nerves.

Many a man to the earth it sent, Many a gap by the balls is rent O'er the corpse before springs the hinder-man, That the line may not fail to the fearless van.

The gap was a place in the rails like I told you where they could take down the rails to pass.

The gaps at each end are the obvious ways for entering and leaving the arena.

All things are comparative, and to one whose assured income had been 70 pounds a year, 800 pounds was unbounded wealth; to one who had spent her life in schoolrooms and lodgings, the Gap was a lordly demesne.

The gap thus caused was the natural explanation of the want of clearness in his playing.

"Gap" and "Mel" are synonyms in Dorset.

One very rugged range could not be surmounted, and had to be skirted to the east, as the only apparent gap was an impassable gorge with precipitous sides, through which the Fitzroy River forced a passage.