From the Sound we steamed past the great headland of Gribun, with the caves in its dark rocks, and into Loch Slach to the pier near Bunessan.
But having the faith of those spoken of in the Scriptures, who wandered about in dens and caves of the earth, being destitute, afflicted and tormented, he endured to the end and arrived safely to the Committee.
The martyrs in olden times who dwelt in "dens and caves of the earth," could hardly have fared worse than some of these way-worn travelers.
We cannot understand him; and it is impossible to hear, for the booming of the sea into the caves drowns his voice.
Our Admiral-in-chief prefers to stay on board; she has letters to write; there are enough of us to go and be tossed on the Atlantic swell off the great caves of Canna.
Though the thing has little to do with art, it may be worth mentioning, as a matter of curiosity, that the labyrinthine Australian caves are decorated, here and there, with the mark of a red hand.
There were spirits that roam in the caves of the deep, Coming back to our earth, as ghosts will do, to peep!
The savage paints his body with gorgeous colors, who wants a blanket to protect him from the cold; and nations have heaped up pyramids to enhance their sense of importance, who have dwelt contentedly in dens and caves of the earth.
Men began to repair to the tops of mountains, lonelycaves and grottoes, where they thought resided their gods.
Lund and Clausen in the cavesof Brazil, are highly interesting facts with respect to the geographical distribution of animals.
This relationship is shown wonderfully--as wonderfully as between the fossil and extinct Marsupial animals of Australia--by the great collection lately brought to Europe from the caves of Brazil by MM.
Lund, however, found human skeletons in the caves of Brazil, the appearance of which induced him to believe that the Indian race has existed during a vast lapse of time in South America.
The open air, the unending bush and impenetrable fastnesses of the rocks and caves were around them now, the white man's warnings they treated as mere fables.
Mr. Dawkins refers us to the results of the exploration of a French scientist in one of the grottoes of this section, which seem to be exactly similar to the results obtained from the caves of Cresswell Crags and Kent's Cavern.
In various caves in France and Belgium, skulls and other bones of the human skeleton have been found.
This was supposed to be the teaching of the Scriptures, but Infinite Wisdom left not only his word, but he left an imperishable record of the past in rocky strata and excavated valley, in dripping caves and mountain masses.
We learn that Neolithic man occasionally used caves as a place of habitation.
We must remember, however, that the greatest wealth of cave relics belongs to the so-called Cave-men, but that savage tribes have always resorted to caves as a place for occasional habitation.
As in the caves of Belgium, some of them are at a considerable height above the stream, while others are but little above the present flood line.
In the caves of France we find a number of fragments of reindeer horn.
We first noticed this among the relics found in one of the Creswell caves in England.
Caves were resorted to during this epoch only in times of danger.
Men, indeed, inhabited caves in Italy, but they did not use the implements characteristic of the Cave-men.
They have left traces of their presence in numerous interments in chambered tombs and caves in Belgium and France, as well as in Spain and Gibraltar.
In 1829 Schmerling commenced his investigations in thecaves of the valley of the Meuse.
These caves vary greatly in size--many being mere rock-shelters.
In places we find caves that served this purpose during the Paleolithic Age.
The roars of lions and tigers, that haunted the caves of early Europe, were no longer heard.
Other caves were examined by Pengelly, but his most important discoveries were made in those of Brixham and Kent.
When I visited the Buddhist caves at Ellora, I noticed that in the ancient sculptures there, Padma-pa[n.
The Elora caves are possibly as old as the third century[224], and with the adjoining Brahmanical and Jain caves of later date, extend for one mile and a quarter along the scarp of an elevated plateau.
The Elora [S']aitya forms one of the series of caves already mentioned (p.
High above these caves towers the summit of the rock from which Satan promised to give our Lord the sovereignty of all the earth if He would fall down and worship him.
On the face of the mountain three caves are visible, and in the centre one we were told the Saviour had dwelt during his preparation in the wilderness before undertaking his mission of a teacher.
Her Most Gracious Majesty, Queen Victoria, visited the cavern in 1832, and one of the caves was named Victoria in memory of that event; we had the honour of standing on the exact spot where she stood on that occasion.
Hawthornden was quite near where stood Ben Jonson's sycamore, and Drummond's Halls, and Cyprus Grove, but we had no time to see the caves where Sir Alexander Ramsay had such hairbreadth escapes.
The fine rock scenery on the coast continues all the way to Land's End, while isolated rocks in many forms and smugglers' caves of all sizes are to be seen.
He seemed to have had other caves on the Cornish coast where he stored his stolen treasures, amongst which were some old cannon.
So also the proteus, which inhabits dark caves under water.
I have been an explorer ofcaves and ravines, a loiterer along sea-shores, a climber among rocks, a labourer in quarries.
Through these hidden caves I found my way; but your young feet may try the mountain summits.
The golden stream of life, on which you glide, Through my grim caves must roll its head-long tide.
This I will not contradict, though having my own opinion; but it seems to me to be a relic of the time when people in the western countries lived in caves beneath the ground, and blocked the mouths with neat-skins.
The cold earth slept below, Above the cold sky shone; And all around, with a chilling sound, From caves of ice and fields of snow, The breath of night like death did flow 5 Beneath the sinking moon.
Who painteth the shadows that are beneath The wide-winding cavesof the peopled tomb?
Day had kindled the dewy woods, And the rocks above and the stream below, And the vapours in their multitudes, And the Apennine's shroud of summer snow, And clothed with light of aery gold 15 The mists in their eastern caves uprolled.
The mouths of two caves are seen from this point, neither of which we visited, and much to our loss, as will appear from the following extract from the "Notes on the Mammoth Cave, by E.
These are caves opening on the sides of the avenues; and after running for some distance, entering them again.
Again and again one finds some passing allusion to the cave of man's mind, or to the caves of his youth, or to the cave of mysteries we enter at death, for to Shelley as to Porphyry it is more than an image of life in the world.
Cave-hill, with cavesand romantic scenery, and a most extensive prospect from its summit.
Dundedy or Galway Head has some curious caves worn out by the sea, also ruins of an old Castle.
Somewhere in this vicinity is Corren, with curious cavescalled the Giant's House, with an approach cut in the rock, steep and difficult.
Near it Collin and Devis mountains, with ancient caves called the "Picts," and fine view of Lough Neagh: across the Lagan 3 m.
Sometimes he would erect houses of red stone, often he would dig great caves of many chambers and halls in the sand.
Curious prehistoric caves with ancient terra-cotta figures resembling only others found in Japan and supplying a curious link.
In places, the sea had eaten long low caves deep under them, and continued to break into them over a shelving beach.
The rock, mainly volcanic tuff, includes thick strata of columnar basalt, and one could see beautiful designs of jammed and twisted columns as well as caves with whole and half pillars very much like a miniature Giant's Causeway.
This must be typical of the ice foot all along the coast, and the wasting of caves at sea level alone gives the idea of an overhanging mass.
Nay," I answered, "I'll to the caves for such things as you would bring away.
Taking this line I came to that rocky cleft where I had killed the goat, and clambering up the bush-grown cliff found it to be honey-combed with caves large and small and with abundant evidences of the animals I sought.
The place hereabouts was honeycombed with small caves and with ledges screened by bushes and tangled vines; and here, well hid from observation, I paused to look about me.
In time, Martin, these caves shall grow into a home indeed and all wrought by our own hands, and this is a sweet thought.
Now as we went slowly thus, I pointed out caves a-plenty and very proper to our purpose, but she would have none of them and was forever lifting her eyes to the cliffs and tree-clad, greeny slopes beyond.
Here followed divers accounts of his labours, his discovery of these caves and many cunning devices day by day until I came on this: May 28.
Presently, as I went heedless of all direction and the sun very hot, I began to stagger in my gait and to mutter her name to myself and presently to shouting it, until the cliffs gave back my cries and the hollow caves murmured, "Damaris!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "caves" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
