Then why should the bunch we found in the cavern tie him up?
Perhaps he saw Jimmie’s light in the cavern and went in there,” suggested Ben.
There was so strong a light now in the cavern that he could dimly see the object which had caused him so much dread, an object which he had touched when he first waded in, and imagined to be a seal.
The door of the cavernwas big enough to roll a hogshead in, and on one side of the door the floor stuck out a little bit, and was flat and a good place to build a fire on.
The cavern was as big as two or three rooms bunched together, and Jim could stand up straight in it.
I went to the cavern to get some, and found a rattlesnake in there.
We tramped and clumb around all over it, and by and by found a good big cavern in the rock, most up to the top on the side towards Illinois.
Gray Mahatma asked, and once again the cavern was flooded with that peculiarly restful golden light, while the picture on the granite table disappeared.
There were the same cells surrounding the cavern in which the old fellow had sat reading from a roll of manuscript; but the cells were absolutely empty.
The boxes and rolls of manuscript had vanished from the cavern in which the little ex-fat man had changed lead into gold before our eyes.
If they enter the cavern of vision and turn on the power they can see us now, instantly.
His cavern was smaller than the other, but as clean, and similarly flooded with the restful golden light.
We entered a bare cavern which was apparently an exact cube of about forty feet.
They carried him bound and gagged into a cavernsuch as those you visited; and there he was confronted by the Nine Unknown, who asked him whether or not he will promise never to reveal what he had seen.
But this door only opened into another passage, and we had to follow him for fifty feet and then through another door into a cavern that was bigger than any.
The pit in the center of the cavern in which the fire-walkers had performed, still held ashes, but the ashes were cold and had either been slaked with water, or else water had been admitted into the pit from below.
It was the only cavern in all that system of caverns whose walls, corners, roof and floor were all exactly smooth.
And the harder I struggled, the tighter they pulled on the ropes and the louder Yasmini laughed, until I might as well have been on that rack that King and I saw in the cavern underneath the temple.
Seen dimly in the dubious nights of the summer solstice, it presents the aspect of a cavern overgrown with bushes, within which a flock of sheep are often quietly reposing, or a cow has laid down to rest, with her little one beside her.
At length even such faint sounds are heard no longer; the birds cease their songs, and when the moonbeams shine into the cavern which time has formed in the Oak of Salcey, it may be seen that both sheep and cattle have retired thither.
Charming was only too glad to give her the flask, and she flitted into the cavern quite unnoticed by the dragon, and after some time returned with the flask, filled to the very brim with sparkling water.
When you get into the cavern you will find an immense hole, which you must go down, and it is full of toads and snakes; at the bottom of this hole there is another little cave, in which rises the Fountain of Health and Beauty.
He is going to the cavern alone, though if he had a hundred men with him he could not succeed.
She thought that if she carried him off to some frightful cavern and chained him to a rock, then the fear of death would make him forget Bellissima and become her slave.
Since the tide was incoming, a few minutes more of delay had rendered the passage of the cavern impossible.
Partly the walls were natural, a narrow cavern traversing the bed of rock which upcropped on this portion of the estate, but partly, if my scanty knowledge of archaeology did not betray me, they were Phoenician!
The light of the lantern showed a lofty cavern tapering away to a point at its remote end, pear-fashion.
Into that black cavern I stared, gloomily fascinated by the onward rolling sound storm; into that blackness I looked .
Rome" as she said it with an awed expression and bated breath suggested a hoary cavern of antiquity, haunted by the ghosts of buried Caesars.
With the wavering shadows of Carolina's guttering candle, it seemed an abode of grotesque and horrible ghostly shapes, a gloomy cavern haunted by kobolds and evil spirits.
I ask because down in that lonely cavern where I sleep a strange dream came to me one night.
A cave was discovered in the rock containing rhinoceros bones in good preservation, and some time after, another cavern was found containing the bones and teeth of bears.
Not far from that cavern is another, named hide-room, in which the stalactites hang down in form of hides in a tannery.
On the right shore we saw the little town of Golconda, afterwards the Cave in Rock, where a considerable cavern runs into the rock.
A narrow hollow passage leads into a more spacious cavern called Solomon's Temple; here are very singular and mostly foliated transparent stalactites, hanging from the roof down to the floor.
So, Professor Aronnax, if you'd like to explore this cavern and circle its lagoon, seize the day.
But Ned Land had no idea in his head other than to see if this cavern offered some way out.
So in that hollow bight of groves beneath the cavern cleft, 310 All hidden by the leafy trees and quavering shades, he left His ships: and he himself afoot went with Achates lone, Shaking in hand two slender spears with broad-beat iron done.
Therewith a cow gave back the sound, and in the cavern hid Lowed out, and in despite his heed all Cacus' hope undid.
Meanwhile, in windy bellows' womb some in the breezes take And give them forth, some dip the brass all hissing in the lake, 450 And all the cavern is agroan with strokes on anvil laid.
We put out the camp-fire at the cavern the first thing, and didn't show a candle outside after that.
But I must confess the idea of the smugglers conveying their illicit cargoes from the beach all that distance up the steep mountain-side to store it in a cavern that was on the way to nowhere seemed absurd.
It was on hearing of this miraculous intervention, and of the widespread notice it attracted, that the ecclesiastical authorities at Iviza gave permission for the little subterranean cavern to be used as a place of worship.
A hole in the ground allowed a peep into a cavern where the wild beasts used in the combats had been housed.
The tide of battle rolled out of the intake into the cavern formed by the face and its approaches.
Six men sat upon six heaps of small coal in a long rectangularcavern five feet high and six feet broad.
One side of the cavern was pierced at regular intervals by narrow openings which were in reality passages; the other was a blank wall of gleaming coal.
In the cavern with his young Bruin lies in slumber wrapt, Snoring like an honest soul, Then he stretches, yawns and wakes.
Therefore, gentle reader, pray, Do not lift your nose in air Should Troll's cavern fail to rouse Memories of Arabia's spice.
Before her, she beheld another cavern in the rock, almost as large as the one in which she played.
Indeed Frieda was so much at home in her cavern that she kept an old frying pan hung from one of the sharp points of the rock and some broken dishes stored away in a crevice which formed a kind of natural pantry.
This cavern yawns at the base of the overhanging bluff that overtops the rock of Puupehe.
Soon he entered the great cavern where the shades of the departed were gathered together.
When the demi-god destroyed Cacus in a cavern on Mount Aventine, which was covered with Poplars, he bound a branch of one round his brow in token of his victory.
Diodorus Siculus, Plato, and Solinus speak of groves of Cypress which were held sacred in Crete, near the ruins of the reputed dwelling of Rhea, and in the vicinity of the Cavern of Zeus.
She chanced to light upon some plants, which when plucked in the night, were not to be exhausted; and after awhile she perceived a cavern which she entered with her child.
It consists of a large cavern with a pendulous mass of brittle rock hanging down from the roof somewhat to the left.
By keeping to the left a cavern is reached, the further end of which opens like a trap door upon the summit; this interesting method of concluding the ascent should not be missed.
The most interesting and difficult piece is where a large stone roofs a cavernsome 15 ft.
The cavern is penetrated as far as possible on this side, and then, with back to the hanging rock and feet on a hold invisible from below, a passage may be effected outwards to the firm hand-holds in the open.
It consists of a cavern divided by two steep buttresses into three parts, side by side, the middle one being most open to inspection but most difficult to approach directly.
It can be climbed by passing into a cavern and up to the left, but the easier, and after heavy rain the only practicable, way is up the side-wall just to the left of the choke-stone on to a broad ledge.
These words were uttered in a very low voice, but they produced sound enough to startle Meg Merrilies, who led the van, and who, having already gained the place where the cavern expanded, had risen upon her feet.
It is a cold place, to be sure,' said Glossin, gathering together some decayed staves of barrels and pieces of wood, which had perhaps lain in the cavernsince Hatteraick was there last.
Meanwhile, you had better defend the mouth of the cavern against every one until I return.
A few monks, according to Boate, an old Irish writer, dwelt near the cavernthat formed the entrance.
The first act was placed before and inside the famous cavernwhere Aladdin finds the lamp.
In the original tale this cavern is uninhabited, but in the ballet there were populations of pretty spirits and servants of the lamp.
Schillie grumbled a good deal at the perversity of the cavern in not having suffered itself to be discovered before, and saved her the trouble of building a house.
We employed the next rainy season in making the passage through the cavern wider and better, so that we could run up and down without torches or fears.
We heard the axe cutting away the brushwood, which fell in the cavern amongst us, and fancied faces were peeping down upon us, to see what had occurred to their companion.
Do you imagine there is only one cavernin the island?
Besides this work, we plaited grass into ropes, and made a ladder or two, with which we practised running up and down into the cavern from the opening at the top.
The only thing I did not like about the cavern was that it had innumerable passages and windings about, and odd places, with dark holes, and ghostly-looking corners.
The other rushed to the boys with vehement gesture, and catching both in his arms, uttered a shout that made the cavern ring again.
But first we tied two stout ropes strongly to two trees, and let them down into the cavern through one of the apertures which lighted it.
Every body seemed to find a nook or place in it so suited to their minds, that we called it the "Cavern of Content.
The cavern was so dry, healthy, and large, and being able to run down to the brook was so delicious, that we scarcely thought of the danger we incurred in living in it.
The thunder pealed so loud that many large pieces of rock were shaken down in the cavern by the concussion, and it became dangerous to live in it.
At all events, if you will none of you touch him, and he must be buried here, let us seek another cavern to live in, one nearer the waterfall.
From a huge hearth-cavern at one end of the room leaped the ruddy illumination of burning logs and fagots in the flaming proportions of a bonfire.
Turney air a hidin' out ter-night in thet small cavern whar ye tuck Mr. Henderson oncet.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cavern" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
