The sensation of the long swinging upward movement was unutterably alien to anything in life or in dreams, and the sheer height above and the momently-deepening chasm below were presences contending for possession.
Its entrance was choked with human beings, and many were pushed over the edge of the chasm and perished in the boiling torrent.
The combatants were separated only by the narrow chasm of the Reuss.
Winding for a long distance among wild ravines, and eternally singing to the woods a trumpet song, it finally makes a sudden plunge into a chasm more than a hundred feet in depth.
It is a chasm in the mountain, thirty feet wide, about a hundred deep, and some two thousand long, and as regular in its shape as if it had been cut by the hand of man.
Its chief pictorial attraction is the cataract at Waterbury, a deep and jagged chasm in the granite mountain, whose horrors are greatly increased by the sight and smothered howl of an avalanche of pure white foam.
To put an end to these perpetual annoyances a brave and beautiful woman, Tiki by name, rolled herself alive down into the gloomy chasm which led to the infernal world.
Sometimes the bones were concealed in a hollow tree in a secret place of the forest, or hidden away in one of the numerous limestone caverns or in some lonely and inaccessible chasm among the rocks.
The chasm is a hundred and fifty feet deep and has two openings, the smaller of which was used only for chiefs and priests.
One of them, at Tamarua, is the chasm called Raupa or "leafy entrance" on account of the dense growth of hibiscus which formerly surrounded this supposed entrance to the shades.
These nuts were then wrapt up in leaves and native cloth and thrown towards the grave; or, if the corpse had been let down by cords into the deep chasm called Auraka, the nuts and other food would be cast down successively upon it.
They tilted alarmingly as one wheel would sink into a deep hole, till the wheel on the other side would find a chasm just as deep, and the hood careened in that direction.
A chasm about fifty feet deep and one hundred feet long was passed, evidently portion of a crevasse, one side of which had been raised.
The crevasses also became wider, so I lengthened the harness with an alpine rope to allow more room and to prevent more than two men from being over a chasm at the same time.
On this occasion we were in a serious predicament, for the sledge was in such a position that an unskilful movement would have sent it hurling into the chasm below.
The snow-bridges were deeply concave, and the lower side of each chasm was raised into a ridge five to ten feet high.
Thou hast not shewn in any chasm beside This weakness.
But Minos to this chasm last of the ten, For that I practis'd alchemy on earth, Has doom'd me.
I thus: "Instructor, clearly thy discourse Proceeds, distinguishing the hideous chasm And its inhabitants with skill exact.
Hence in the second chasm we heard the ghosts, Who jibber in low melancholy sounds, With wide-stretch'd nostrils snort, and on themselves Smite with their palms.
And I was leaping wildly down the chasm 420 When on the further brink I saw his sword, And it said, Vengeance!
But I fear--yea, much I do fear--the chasmof parting which doth once more open betwixt thee and me.
Fritz led the way to a place where the chasm was narrow enough for him to spring across with the aid of his mountain staff.
I shouldn't like it very much if you were down at the bottom of thatchasm at this moment.
We must cross that deep chasm ahead of us very carefully.
Carl, as they came near another chasm in the glacier.
The chasm that had caused him such a long detour before had widened, evidently in the big quake that had hit earlier.
He could still rig up a sail, for a groundcar, except for the chasm out on Den Hoorn.
After a moment's hesitation, he swung the groundcar northward and raced along the edge of the chasm as fast as the car would negotiate the terrain.
We can't make the trip overland because of the chasm out there in Den Hoorn, and we can't fly the platform because we have no power for it.
The child you buried when I had nothing, bore you over The Chasm of Neglected Duties, where your hardest lot was to be found.
Multitudes of people were before them on the brink of the Chasm looking longingly at the other side.
They had come to the brink of a Chasm which it seemed impossible to cross, but they hoped, for they knew no despair.
How well it was for us that we had the heart of a child to plead our cause when we came to The Chasm of Neglected Duties.
The Chasm of Neglected Duties: Michael, because he followed the command and made his marriage a Holy Sacrament to fulfil the law of God; Orville, because he had shown mercy and recognition of his servant's claim upon him.
Yes, master," Michael replied, "but this is The Chasmof Neglected Duties.
O'er the field ran a deep ravine, And so near did they ride to the chasmthat the tree from afar was seen.
In this dilemma imagination, ever active in magnifying concealed danger, pictured my situation as tottering on the brink of some such chasm as that of the Devil's bridge.
Can the chasm which angry words have created be bridged over?
He gave the motorcycle all the gas it would take and went racketing up the truck-road from the chasm below the dam.
She was prepared for this duty by previous ablution at the fountain of Castalia, and being crowned with laurel was seated upon a tripod similarly adorned, which was placed over the chasm whence the divine afflatus proceeded.
One of them, however, happening to see a swarm of bees, followed them to a chasm in the earth, which proved to be the place sought.
She closed her eyes; for she saw that awful chasm once more yawning at her feet, and once more she felt herself falling .
The refusal not only deepened the chasm between party and party; it placed the Tories in open opposition to the Hanoverian kings.
It was a trying walk for Blanden, but in his soul dwelled the hope of being able to hold out the hand of friendship to his beloved one, across that chasm which divided their love.
I will not, I cannot be his wife; but between you and him no chasm exists, a bridge is still possible in your case!
If so, we stand a good chance of killing him, for the sides of the chasm are like two walls all the way up.
