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Example sentences for "recesses"

Lexicographically close words:
receptor; receptors; receptum; recess; recessed; recession; recessional; recessive; recessives; recessus
  1. Fred Archer was safely concealed in the secret recesses of the Dark Vaults.

  2. My eyes roved round its smoky recesses in quest of Diana and her companion; but they were nowhere to be seen, and I felt as if to make inquiries might betray some secret motives, which were best concealed.

  3. The light was not yet sufficiently powerful to reach the recesses of that gloomy spot, and a second look was necessary before he discovered, to his astonishment, that the peddler stood before him.

  4. The people say that in their recesses and ravines acacias and other gum-trees grow as they do elsewhere.

  5. But then we must remember that a caravan route usually takes the more fertile and populous tracks, and that many animals might be found in the recesses of the forests not far off, although there are so few on the line.

  6. But there are such moments--moments of profound grief, of passionate love, of great and splendid angers and enthusiasms which dart light back into the farthest recesses of our natures and astonish us with the vision they disclose.

  7. At the same time--and leading to the same results--it is continually storing up in its recesses impressions and memories for the seed of future expression and development.

  8. He climbed the cliff to the Banshee's Cave and deposited the piece of timber in the recesses of that place.

  9. When we pierce to the inmost recesses of a pyramid, we find there only the ashes of a dead man, or even of an animal.

  10. The pilgrimages of father and son to the recesses of that dark, damp cellar became frequent.

  11. He urged the minstrel man to assist in exploring the mysterious recesses behind the counters.

  12. Know, however, that thou art to be received in an even more sacred inclosure: I have made preparations to welcome thee with the greatest eagerness and devotion to the innermost recesses of my heart.

  13. Time enough to fly; time enough to put miles between her and the hound, before he should come upon her fresh trail; time enough to escape away through the dense forest and hide in the recesses of Panther Gorge; yes, time enough.

  14. At the recesses he swaggered and hopped about with the children at play, often cawing uproariously.

  15. Her own photograph, in a silver frame, stood in one of the recesses of the desk.

  16. Vivian and Leslie blew long plumes of smoke from the innermost recesses of their lungs.

  17. But it had for a time hidden this idea in the recesses of the Christian heart.

  18. And, thereupon, could any one have gazed into the recesses of that chamber, they would have seen the poor despairing girl adopt a final resolution, and determine upon one last plan in her mind.

  19. Aramis, still playing with his knife, fixed a look upon Vanel which seemed as if he wished to penetrate the recesses of his heart.

  20. I leaned, weak and sickening, against the wall of the bridge; and in one of the arched recesses beside me a cripple held out his hat for pence.

  21. Would you grace the recesses of the Church?

  22. With such hopes dimly whirling in the recesses of her soul, her beautiful red lips babbled.

  23. Here she drew from the inner recesses of the black shawl a bundle which, being placed in a perpendicular position, proved to be the most recent addition to the Gonorowsky household.

  24. I will lay no bet to that amount," said the mercer, something sobered by an offer which intimated rather too private a knowledge on Lambourne's part of the secret recesses of his shop.

  25. He had brought Lord Leicester to the point which he had desired, of committing to him the most intimate recesses of his breast, and of using him as the channel of his most confidential intercourse with his lady.

  26. Curving recesses of the wooded bank, outlined by one long, picturesque French village street, followed the bend of the shore to the left.

  27. As he curbed his passion, NarĂ¡ka becomes disturbed; smoke issued from its deepest recesses and the heavens rocked to and fro.

  28. If I hold to one opinion, I must studiously cultivate the acquaintance of men who hold the opposite view, and investigate the hidden recesses of their minds with scientific and painstaking diligence.

  29. The young fellow in the debating society looked into the recesses of his own spirit, and cried out that there was nothing there.

  30. I therefore proclaimed to all and sundry my inflexible determination to ransack the house from the top brick of the chimney to the darkest recesses of the cellar in quest of my vanished treasure.

  31. The mounting scream of a siren echoed in the vaulted recesses above and re-echoed from the surrounding columns--the call for reserves.

  32. But in the deeper recesses of his mind he was shaken.

  33. The sun had set, while I still anxiously explored the dry recesses of the channel in search of water, without much hopes of success, when a wild yell arose from the woods back from the channel, which assured us that water was near.

  34. Those beautiful recesses of unpeopled earth, could no longer remain unknown.

  35. They grow in clusters, or scattered singly, in every variety of situation, some clinging to the steep slopes, or gnarled and twisted on the bare hilltops, others sheltered in the recesses of the dell.

  36. The nearest points at which they could embark for the purpose of exploring or utilising the great tract of ocean in this quarter were the inner recesses of the two deep gulfs known as the Persian and the Arabian.

  37. After a few days, the party observe, in the recesses of a gloomy forest, the remains of a Gothic abbey.

  38. Already Madame La Motte has become jealous of Adeline, especially as her husband is oddly melancholy, and apt to withdraw into a glade, where he mysteriously disappears into the recesses of a genuine Gothic sepulchre.


  39. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "recesses" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    bosom; center; core; heart; inside; interior; intern; internal; inward; recess; soul; vitals