Hollowmell was a lovely glade which lay at the foot of a gentle eminence, immediately behind which lay the pit whose ugly shaft was almost hid by it.
The cover of the pit consists of heavy timbers framed together and overlaid by a 12-in.
This pit was once used as the well of a gas tank, Fig.
One pitwas on the W bank of a S-flowing branch of Indian Cr.
These pits differ materially from those of thePit River Indians, being much shallower.
E on the round end of a ridge was a fairly evident pit and a sekal.
A single pit found by Pete E of a small stream flowing south into Indian Cr.
There was a pit on the W side of the stream from the N and two pits on the N side of the main stream 1/4 mi.
Then was Sigurd stirred by his glory, and he strove with the swaddling of Death; He turned in the pit on the highway, and the grave of the Glittering Heath; He laughed and smote with the laughter and thrust up over his head.
When he joined his fiancee, he did not feel all that he ordinarily felt--a joyful impulse to run to meet her, a sort of oppression at the pit of the stomach, a sudden delicious rush of the blood to the throbbing heart!
He would, on the contrary, descend still lower in the spiral pit of mortals damned by love.
As he looked at her, he felt a sudden rushing of the blood in all his veins, a strange, delicious pressure at the pit of the stomach.
The old bull stepped on to the newly turned earth, and went down into a pit that the hunters had dug.
He was obliged to slide down this black opening, and when he found a footing in a dark, cellar-like place, he at once struck a match under the belief that he stood in a mere pit and nothing else, but a puff of wind blew the match out.
Restore to me my sword, pit me against them one by one, and I will fight my way to freedom or die.
The mouth of the Pit is there, the Bottomless Pit that the Preacher tells about.
If he is satisfied that the armadillo is at home, he cuts a long, slender stick, and introduces it into the hole, carefully observing the line which it takes, and then sinks a pit in the sand to catch the end of it.
The first which arrives makes a pitabout three feet deep, and lays its eggs--about one hundred in number--covering them with sand.
For this purpose they dig a square pit capable of containing seven or eight hundred carcasses.
As soon as the ice in the river is of sufficient thickness, it is cut with saws into square blocks, of a uniform size, with which the floor of the pit is regularly paved.
The next makes its deposit at the top of the former; and so on till every pit is full.
Did I not order you to hearken at the Pit Door and bring me Word at the end of every Act how it went on?
Now I fancy it is to be done like the Wall or the Man in the Moon in Pyramus and Thisbe; Macklin will come in dressed like the Pit and say: Ladies and Gentlemen, I am the Pit And a Prologue I'll speak if you think fit.
Not after it begun; before indeed, there was as promising a Spirit in the Pit as ever made an Author's Heart ache.
What--shall he try the arts of low grimace, Rant like old Bayes, and with a begging face Implore the patient monarchs of the Pit To let dull farce pass off for sterling Wit?
I heard you from the other side of the Pit and did the same but was interrupted too by the Fools about me.
The samepit will serve you year after year, and when the frosts are over you may take out your potatoes.
He (the correspondent) stood by a pit of potatoes whilst the owner, a small farmer, was turning them for the purpose of picking out and rejecting the bad ones.
But the first night my fellows had hardly had time enough to learn to find their way about the trenches when from a forward rifle pit a rocket of a certain colour went up, 'signifying: 'We are being attacked by tanks.
But before I had time to start on it two more rockets went up from another rifle pit at the left of the first one, and according to the code these rockets meant: 'Lift your barrage--we are about to attack in force.
It seemed a raw recruit in the first pit had found a box of rockets.
Hardly out of prison, he again advised the people to surrender, and the nobility seized him and cast him into a lime pit filled with water, where they hoped he would drown.
He would come to the edge of the pit and call down jeeringly: "Do not rest thy head on the mud, and take a little sleep, Jeremiah.
Early in the morning Darius (13) went to the pit of the lions to discover the fate of Daniel.
The entrance to the pit was closed up with a rock, which had all of its own accord rolled from Palestine to protect him against any harm contemplated by his enemies.
Kate understood, and longed to go to her and comfort her; and she trembled for her father, who knew nothing of the pit that lay at his feet.
To pit the heart against the conscience, impulse against calculation!
Running down the sides of the pit were a number of dark-brown streaks, about a yard wide; Van Emmon could make them out, more or less clearly, on the other side of the pit as well.
The craft had landed on the rim of a deep pit, or what would have been called a pit if it had not been so extraordinary.
The bottom of the pit was perhaps twenty feet in diameter, and roughly hemispherical.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pit" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
