115 examples of cavernous in sentences

MAID O not for him Blooms my dark nightshade, nor doth hemlock brew Murder for cups within her cavernous root.

Black shadows filled the eye-sockets, and gave to the face an uncertain, cavernous look, as though it saw and pondered.

so preposterously that the setting sun shone straight down his wide and cavernous gullet.

" At the sight of so unexpected an object in the young gentleman's hand Captain Obadiah's jaw fell, and his cavernous mouth gaped as though he had suddenly been stricken with a palsy.

Saying which, the Waggoner turned and accepted the cigars which he proceeded to stow away in the cavernous interior of his wide-eaved hat, handling them with elaborate care, rather as if they were explosives of a highly dangerous kind.

cried Walter excitedly; and, lifting the roughly constructed wooden latch, he pushed the door open, disclosing a cavernous darkness.

He was gaunt and worn and dirty, and his eyes burned like twin coals in their cavernous sockets.

It was not till then I knew what a task I had before me, for looking over the parapet, and taking care not to lose my balance, because the parapet was low, and the floor round it green and slippery with water-splashings, I watched the candle sink into that cavernous depth, and from a bright flame turn into a little twinkling star, and then to a mere point of light.

Those in our line kept tearing up huge tufts of it, thrashing out the mud and dirt from the roots against their forelegs, and with a grunt of satisfaction, making it slowly disappear in their cavernous mouths.

Once more in the vast cathedral, with throngs of the living choking its aisles, amidst jubilant peals from the cavernous depths of the great organ, and choral melodies ringing from the fluty throats of the singing boys.

The cavernous passages are sublime in height, the chasms fearful in their yawning gulfs.

There are no heavens and no earth or sea in it; no living creatures, forests, flowers; no bright colours, brilliant lights, or cavernous darks.

And so, like a female Colossus, she strode slowly across the city, her head tilted, her eyes looking up from the cavernous streetsup beyond the lofty roofs of houses, her voice becoming fainter and fainter: "Rags ... old iron ... bottles and ra-ags ..." until the God of those who fall fighting in the battle of life reached down and, drawing the sword, threw away the scabbard.

After the brightness of Broadway the side streets seemed cavernous.

The gloomrich golden gloom if you willof the interior oppresses me; it is cavernous.

So the young chief contrived a way of getting her out of the cavernous prison.

And Gabriel, spent with his words, coughed painfully, a hollow cavernous cough that seemed to tear his chest.

In the course of the morning Mrs. Cliff and Edna, having been filled with an intense desire to see the wonderful subterranean lake, had been helped over the rocky barrier, and had stood at the edge of the water, looking over to where it was lighted by the great chasm in the side of the rocks, and endeavoring to peer into the solemn, cavernous distance into which it extended on the right.

And thenin my dreamI start to find myself going down into strange cavernous depths of shining green, and I wakein my dreamto begin fighting and toiling again against my compelling desire to give up.

The fuel consists of nine different sorts of wood, and the spectators cast into the flames a kind of toad-stool (Bäran) in order to counteract the power of the Trolls and other evil spirits, who are believed to be abroad that night; for at that mystic season the mountains open and from their cavernous depths the uncanny crew pours forth to dance and disport themselves for a time.

Great bulks projected, capped by gigantic mitres or diadems, and flanked by cavernous indentations.

The abyss was always the same, yet with colossal variety: here and there yawnings of veined precipices, followed by cavernous closings of the awful sides; breakings in of subsidiary cañons, some narrow clefts, and others gaping shattered mouths; the walls now presenting long lines of rampart, and now a succession of peaks.

I saw smiling Davids, frowning Davids, mild Davids, and ferocious Davids,Davids with oblique eyes, red noses, and cavernous mouths,and Davids as blind as bats, or with great goggle-orbs, aquiline nasal organs, blue at the tips, and lips made for a lisp.

Here he remained up to the ankles in mud and water, while Grimbald unlocked the ponderous door, and with a grin revealed the interior of the cavernous recess.

If words could do the work of the photographer, I should like to show him to my readers, as he appeared to me on that first interview; though later his whole aspect underwent a change in my sight, reflected from the cavernous depths within, so that, what seemed somewhat ludicrous in the beginning, came to be solemnly serious and even sophistically tragical and awful on later acquaintance.

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