... Deep ravines and chasms afford outlets to the numerous streams and rivers which take their rise in the background; the pale fleecy ether almost always shrouds its summit...
Henry M. Stanley 「How I Found Livingstone」
...Whenfrightened, it bounds from rock to rock, making a strange hissing sound;dashes itself across the most fearful chasms, and throws itself downprecipices of thirty feet...
R. Lee 「Anecdotes of the Habits and Instinct of Animals」
...Now it was customary at the Thesmophoriato throw pigs, cakes of dough, and branches of pine-trees into“the chasms of Demeter and Persephone,” which appear tohave been sacred caverns or vaults...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
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“Heaven opens inward, chasms yawn...
Alfred, Lord Tennyson 「The Early Poems of Alfred, Lord Tennyson」
...The monstrous shadow-filled cavity above Clavius toward the right is Blancanus, whose aspect here gives a good idea of the appearance of these chasms when only their rims are in the sunlight...
Garrett Serviss 「Curiosities of the Sky」
...—Some of these are of spacious dimensions; others are narrow,and contract into gorges and chasms...
Thomas Orchard 「The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'」
...These clefts appear to be broadand deep chasms, like the cañons cut by terrestrial rivers,but it can not be believed that the lunar cañons are thework of rivers...
Garrett Serviss 「Pleasures of the telescope」
...Evolution, without constant superintendence and occasional newinspiration of power, finds some tremendous chasms in the roadit travels...
Henry Warren 「Recreations in Astronomy」
...Every instant pines and live oaks, of the largest dimensions, were borne down by the fury of the blast, which, tearing up roots and rocks with them, left chasms of eight or ten feet depth in the earth...
David Collins 「An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Vol. 1」
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