Will you take oath never to disclose the whereabouts of the entrance to the cavernsin which you were allowed to see the sciences?
It was the only door in all those caverns that had refused to swing open at the first touch, and this one was fastened so rigidly that it might have been one with the frame for all the movement our blows on it produced.
The cavernswere there, just as we had seen them, only without their contents.
You could have eaten off the floor, and there was no way of explaining how the dust of ages had not accumulated, unless thosecaverns had been occupied and thoroughly cleaned within a short space of time.
It was hardly any wonder that that secret, yet so simply discoverable door between Yasmini's palace and the temple-caverns was unknown.
It was the only cavern in all that system of caverns whose walls, corners, roof and floor were all exactly smooth.
It has under it a set of excavations and cavernsalmost equally curious with those of Hawthornden; there are still some tolerably preserved rooms in it, and Mrs. W.
After exploring thecaverns we came up into the parlors again, and Miss S.
In the olden days the approach to these caverns was not through the house, but through the side of a deep well sunk in the court yard, which communicates through a subterranean passage with this well.
At first Mark was startled by the roar of the waves that plunged into the caverns of the rocks, and trembled lest his boat might be hove up against that hard and iron-bound coast, where one toss would shatter his little craft into splinters.
Long before this era, in Hindoostan, advantage had been taken of natural caverns to hew into shape the marvellous rock temples of Elephanta, Ellora, and Ajunta, still accounted as amongst the wonders of the world.
The neighbourhood of Mount Etna, in Sicily, has various wonderful caverns of this formation.
After this the great caverns succeed each other rapidly, each with some special interest of its own, until we find ourselves in the 'Hall of the Trophies,' where electric light is installed to exhibit the marvels of the roof.
The Greeks held caverns to be sacred to various gods--Pan, Bacchus, Pluto, and the Moon.
He knew that one who had not been there could not possibly have any idea of the awful noise on the Longships Rock occasioned by the roaring and the raging of the waves in the caverns underneath.
Landslips and rock-falls on the surface account for many small grottoes, but water is the main origin of all the most celebrated caverns of the world.
During the great American Civil War, most of that used was found here, and as gunpowder contains two-thirds of nitre to all its other ingredients, these caverns were of great value to the nation.
The hardest rocks remain in jagged points and ledges, and the softer parts are in time washed away, leaving caverns of all shapes and sizes.
After satisfying ourselves that these singular caverns afforded us no means of escape from our prison, we made our way back, dejected and dispirited, to the summit of the hill.
The visit requires from 6 to 7 hours, and certainly none but ardent lovers of walking in dark caverns should undertake the labour.
Some were slain in attempting to escape, others threw themselves headlong on the rocks below, others were smothered; there were afterwards found within the caverns 400 infants stifled in the arms of their dead mothers.
Behind the establishment are the caverns whence the springs issue.
At a conservative estimate three months of time and many thousands of dollars must be spent in lining the spillway tunnel with a steel tube, and in plugging the caverns of the hollow tooth with concrete.
There was a hoarse groaning from the underground caverns of the zirconium mine--sounds as of a volcano in travail.
Who called you forth from night and utter death, From dark and icy caverns called you forth, Down those precipitous, black, jagged rocks, For ever shattered and the same for ever?
Great lakes occupied the low places for so many days that the people feared the land itself had floated away, leaving caverns in the place of their fields, and there was distress in the country as well as in the town.
It has been suggested that sounds produced by confined air making its escape from crevices or caverns in the rocks may have given some ground for the story.
Almost as soon as we got acquainted with the people of the caverns the idea occurred to me that I should like to take some of them with us when we visit the other hemisphere.
At least five hundred natives had assembled in a furry crowd around the entrance to the caverns to see us off.
The only brute animals that we saw in the caverns were some doglike creatures, about as large as terriers, but very furry, which showed the utmost terror whenever we appeared.
We found that in some of the winding passages connecting the caverns they cultivated food.
It arose from the existence of other caverns whose mouths opened upon the plain.
Having found the caverns we will complete our rites at Juba's grave, and get away for good before the sacrificial ceremonies begin.
Already five hundred and eighty-two of those days have passed, so that within two days another conjunction will occur, and if we are then at thecaverns we shall doubtless witness another sacrifice to the earth and the moon.
I have heard that there are some wonderful caverns somewhere about here, and I have determined to try and find them out," said one.
Alwin seemed unable to let go his last hope, and began again imploringly, "Edred, I know it said if people got into these caverns they were to call to the King; do let us try.
Alwin was silent after this rebuke; but the caverns were by no means silent, for now the unearthly sounds seemed to increase, and the boys clung to each other in terror.
There is a house built on the entrance to these caverns and one does not realize that such a remarkable region is located here.
These cavernsare carved from the Silurian limestone, although they are considered to date from the Tertiary period.
Here we find caverns that for variety and beauty of their calcite formations excel many if not all caverns of the same kind in the world.
At the Luray Caverns cement walks have been laid, stairways, bridges and iron railings have been erected, and the entire route through this most beautiful of subterranean palaces is illuminated by brilliant electric lights.
The Shenandoah valley is not only famous for its beauty, picturesque scenery and many historical associations, but here in Page county, Virginia, are located the beautiful caverns of Luray.
On entering Luray Caverns one of the first of the many curious formations to attract your attention will be rows of stalactites resembling fish on market.
The temperature of both Luray Caverns and Mammoth Cave is uniformly fifty-four degrees Fahrenheit throughout the year, and the atmosphere is both chemically and optically of singular purity.
On entering the caverns you experience a thrill of strange emotion and mute wonder.
At one place in the caverns rows of stalactites are arranged in lines of various lengths in reference to tone, just like the strings of a piano, in regular graduated system.
But in Luray Cavernswe have one of the world's great wonders "that was old long before the foundation of the Pyramid of Cheops.
KUBLA KHAN In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.
Who called you forth from night and utter death, 40 From dark and icy caverns called you forth, Down those precipitous, black, jagged rocks, For ever shattered and the same for ever?
In this sketch of our plan, we have reserved no place for the art which is called prehistoric, the art of the caverns and the lake dwellings.
There are strange helmeted columns, slender minarets and spires that some day perhaps a tempest will snap in two, dark, cool caverns which your fancy pictures as dens of those ogreish divinities you have read of Indians' believing in.
But certain caverns in the hillside behind, which they used as store-houses, remained, and undiscovered in them a secret stock of corn and wine that gave them food.
Still, faithful to his trust, he strove to discover that entrance to the caverns of which Miriam had told him, and to this end hovered day by day upon the north side of the city near to the old Damascus Gate.
In ten minutes more, the whole were in the caverns of the ice, and, presently, the cabin of the wreck was entered.
By this time the caverns were dripping with a thousand little streams, and every sign denoted a most rapid melting of the ice.
Among these caverns one might have wandered for miles without once coming out into the open air, though they were cold and cheerless, and had little to attract the adventurer after the novelty was abated.
There was more room for exercise, the caverns of the ice being extensive, while they completely excluded the wind, which was now the great danger of the season.
The caverns all disappeared within the first week of the thaw, the attitudes into which the cakes had been thrown greatly favouring the melting process, by exposing so much surface to the joint action of wind, rain, and sun.
The schooner stood nearly upright, sustained by fragments of the floe; and there were extensive caverns all around her, produced by the random manner in which the cakes had come up out of their proper element like so many living things.
Signs of surrender showed in some, caverns and arches cut by the constant hammer of swell and billow.
I marked the volcanic make of it, cast up from the low bed of Neptune an eon ago, its loftiest peaks peering from the long cloud-streamers a mile and a half above my eyes, and its valleys embracing caverns of shadow.
Among reptiles was Moo, a terrible dragon living in caverns above and beneath the sea, who was dreaded above all dangers.
Fish of a score of shapes and of all colors of the spectrum wove in and out the branches and caverns of this wondrous parterre.
The Garibaldi perch and the electric fish excite interest at Santa Catalina, but here are a hundred marvels, and if I wish I can see them all as they swim in and out of the coral caverns within the lagoon.
At this all vanished, and the wind was hushed, And the great sun came up above the hills, And the swift-flying vapors hid themselves In caverns among the rocks!
Voices from the deep Cavernsof darkness answer me: "They sleep!
Its vaulted passages are made the caverns Of robbers, and are haunted by the ghosts Of murdered men.
From the rough ridges of the wild Sierra, From caverns in the rocks, from hunger, thirst, And fever!
In other caverns were found human bones, but unaccompanied with those of other animals.
In the Windmill rock the caverns have been found, and in these latter a great quantity of bones was discovered.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "caverns" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
