Beyond the dirt pile gaped the mouth of a hole leading beneath the log.

When I passed it, after the Germans had gone that way, the gables and the turrets had fallen down, and instead of mullioned windows there were gaping holes in blackened walls.

In the middle of the clearing, twenty yards farther on, gaped an enormous shell-crater, a present from the Kaiser.

He was at the Paris, or other cafe, surrounded by gaping Frenchmen, who pressed upon him Pernoud, rum, and the delicate wines of France.

And where the cottage stood there gaped a gulf; The jewel and the casket vanished both.

As it turned it gaped its jaws wide, but oddly enough not a sound came forth, not even a hiss.

It is stronger than its enemy, and yet the steady pull of hundreds of suckers is more than it can stand, and the shells, after a time, begin to gape a little.

Every man would have, tied about his neck or to one of his buttonholes, the German field-doctor's card telling of the nature of his hurt and the place where he had sustained it; and the uniform of nearly every one would be discolored with dried blood, and where the coat gaped open you marked that the harsh, white cambric lining was made harsher still by stiff, brownish- red streakings.

There he found four round rolls wrapped up in dressed sheepskin; one of these rolls he opened; then his mouth gaped and his eyes stared, I wot, as though they would never close again, for what did he see but fifty pounds of bright golden money?

Before him gaped a black square, through which he darted, to pitch head first over some fat, padded bulk.

Another was overturned, with broken wheels collapsed under it, and in the Red Cross canvas tilts of others gaped huge tears and rents.

All the weird peaks and slabs seemed pointing up at him: sharp-toothed jaws gaped upward tongues hissed upwardarms pointed upwardhounds leaped upward monstrous snake-heads peered upward out of cracks and caves.

Long time beleagur'd gape the castle walls; First in the breach the indignant monarch falls: Nogiva's lord next meets an equal fate; And Gugemer straight weds the widow'd mate.

"They all gape the same fool way when they see Diablo the first time.

All through the Confession I gape about with vacant inattentionat the grimy whiteness of the choir; at the back of the organist's head; at the parson, a mealy-mouthed fledgling, who, with his finger on his place in the prayer to prevent his losing it, is taking a stealthy inventory of my charms.

The mouth gaped black in a sputtering cry, then closed choking, squirted out water, and gaped once more, to wail clearly: "I am Jesus Christ!"

CHAPTER LII HOW THEY HAD NEWS OF WALKYN Now went they in silence again for that Beltane dreamed of many things while Roger marvelled within himself, oft turning to look on my Beltane's radiant face, while ever his wonder grew; so oft did he turn thus to gape and stare that Beltane, chancing to meet his look, smiled and questioned him, thus: "Why gape ye on me so, Roger man?"

Far up the vale, eight miles away, beneath a roof of cloud, the pass of Nant Francon gapes high in air between the great jaws of the Carnedd and the Glyder, its cliffs marked with the upright white line of the waterfall.