It looked so unbelievably adequate and modern and alive standing there, drawing its perfectly measured breath; it was so eloquent of power and the work of men's hands that there seemed to yawn a gap of half a thousand years between it and the raid in which it was being made a factor.

Some mighty convulsion of the mountain had separated the whole front of the cliff from the main rock, so that a space of at least twenty feet intervened, and between yawned a dark abyss that led down to where no man had yet penetrated.

" As he finished speaking he yawned a second time and howled again as before.

Between us yawned an early grave for one or other of our bodies.

Incredulous I listen now To every tongue, and every vow, For still there yawns a gulf between Those honeyed words, and what they mean; With honest pride elate, I see The sons of falsehood shrink from me, As from the right line's even way The biass'd curves deflecting stray

" There were endless questions to be asked and answered on both sides; but at last Dab yawned a very sleepy yawn, and said, "Ford, you've had your nap.

The blue expanded ocean, fields, woods, cities, rivers, mountains, and all the wonted charms of the terrestrial world, had a magic effect, when viewed by the help of the nascent light; while hard by yawned that dreadful crater of centuries untold, evolving thick sulphureous clouds of white smoke, which rolling down the mountain's side in terrific grandeur, at length formed one vast column for many miles in extent across the sky.

Beyond browsing my goats, drawing their milk (the making of butter I quickly renounced), and watering my garden night and morn (which is done by throwing water from the little stream broadcast with a shovel on either side), I did no more than Dawson, but joined him in yawning the day away, for which my sole excuse is the great heat of this region, which doth beget most slothful humours in those matured in cooler climes.

Standing quietly for a while beside a good-tempered-looking man, who was evidently an out-of-work cab-driver, he yawned two or three times, and said at last: "How long shall we have to wait, do you think?" "Depends on cable," said the cab-driver.

" "I don't wonder," yawned the doctor, "if she was anything like she is now.

24. 'But first let yawning earth a passage rend, And let me thro' the dark abyss descend: First let avenging Jove, with flames from high.

Only in one part was the lake disturbed, and that was above the place where, far down under the silent waters, yawned the entrance to the vast, underground Pit.

Straight before my gaze yawned the awful expanse of the canyon.

"His way of talking made me very tired," yawned the big fellow.

"All alone?" "All alone, Ditson," yawned Frank.

"I shall pull a face as long as a fiddle, and yawn my head half off while I'm clearing up.

In the roofs were yawning holes, and the doors hung aslant on broken hinges.

"Your time's nearly up, Jem," said one at length, "this time six weeks you'll be yawning out the honeymoon and cursing the manwoman I mean who invented them.

to surfeit on the same, And yawn our joys?

He yawned a little, and said, rather brusquely: "This rain's messing up the frost pretty well.

" He yawned again, stretched up his arms, groaned and laughed with mockery: "A little more money, maybe, when I don't know what to do with what I've got already!

And then, suddenly, we came out from among the trees, on to a great open space, where, not six paces in front of us, yawned the mouth of a tremendous chasm, from the depths of which the noise appeared to rise, along with the continuous, mistlike spray that we had witnessed from the top of the distant bank.

there is the thousand-and-first right before him, yawning wide open, which he does not seehis Blind Peril!"

Beyond it yawned the opening to the great West,the Prairies.

"Aw, say," yawned Willis Paulding, "you want to be a little cawful or you will slop the good stuff, don't yer know.