67 Words to use with pits

At this he laughed, indeed we laughed together,there seemed something ridiculous in the thought; and presently he told me, for the mere relief of talking, that round each of these pit-mouths there was a band to entrap every passer-by who allowed himself to be caught, and send him down below to work in the mine. '

He answered that they were greatly afraid lest we should fire upon them, and their hearts at first went pit-a-pat; but when they heard from him how well we treated him, and that we were no friends to the Rebels, they said 'Poussa' ('that's Buddha's doing' or 'thank God').

But enter in, my Muse; the stage survey, And all its pomp and pageantry display; Trap-doors and pit-falls, form the unfaithful ground, And magic walls encompass it around: On either side maim'd temples fill our eyes, And intermixed with brothel-houses rise; 20 Disjointed palaces in order stand, And groves obedient to the mover's hand O'ershade the stage, and flourish at command.

Those now known have been divided into five classes; the first comprehending the fluid inflammable bodies; the second, peat or turf; the third, charcoal of wood; the fourth, pit-coal charred; and the fifth, wood or pit-coal in a crude state, with the capacity of yielding a copious and bright flame.

Nor must we confine our attention to the cost price at the pit-head.

Then I was dumb enough to try the bite of a wall lizard that Gerry had caught to feed to his pit vipers.

They have these hard-nosed dudes called 'pit bosses' that keep an eye on things, head off trouble . . .

" At a change of scenes, Mrs. Knipp spies Pepys and comes to the pit door.

"No," answered the child, "I shall not get better, I am sure; and I wanted to ask master to let my class sing a hymn over my body, when they put it in the pit-hole."

At the avenue gate a crowd of some hundred pit-men and their wives gave a cheer as the carriage passed.

GILFILLAN, HARRIET W. I went to pit college, by Lauren Gilfillan, pseud.

"Why should I work in this pit day after day?"

the pit-u-dal-ti at the gates, And masari patrol and guard the streets!

He completed the purchase with unheard-of rapidity, and set an army of workmen to raise a pit village, or street of eighty houses.

We do not all yet care for Chancellor claret, Hamburg sherry, petroleum champagne, and Dudley port, sometimes called "Bilston pit drink.

Chalbury Camp, to the west of the village, is a prehistoric hill fort with traces of pit-dwellings within the entrenchment.

A lit-tle maid weeps pit-e-ous-ly, In dire dis-tress de-mand-ing aid; Her pre-cious ball is up a tree, And ev-ery boy shrinks back a-fraid.

This old door-way, if you are young, reader, you may not know was the identical pit entrance to old DruryGarrick's Druryall of it that is left.

They had to him no connection with anything outside normal peaceful life, stirred his thoughts to war no more than seeing a gasbracket would wake him to imaginings of a coalmine or a pit explosion.

She taught them how to place their little feetshe gave them timely warnings of the pit-fallsshe gently lifted them over the stumbling-blocks.

I wrote Major Guilford yesterday, telling him that six pit gangs, all the roundhouse 'emergencies' and two outdoor repair squads couldn't begin to keep the cripples moving; and within a week every one of the labor unions has kicked through its grievance committee.

And all about the detestable pit Strange headless ghosts, and quarter'd forms, did flit; Rivers of blood, from living traitors spilt, By treachery stung from poverty to guilt.

He went out as a miner, havin' been a pit-hand at the Blackstone Colliery, north o' Bursfield.

what net is this that thou hast spread, and in thine own path what pit hast thou dug?

The glittering sword is whet and held over them, and the pit hath opened her mouth under them.

67 Words to use with  pits