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Example sentences for "subterranean passage"

  • At the corner of the labyrinth stands a pyramid forty fathoms high, with large figures engraved on it, which is entered by a subterranean passage.

  • This closet or niche stands at a door of the room in which is an entrance to a subterranean passage, having its exit in the Via del Lupanare.

  • These palaces had communication with each other by a subterranean passage.

  • Before Mr Stephens' visit this was supposed by the inhabitants of the region to be a subterranean passage, or cave, known as Satun Sat, or the Labyrinth.

  • Waldeck describes the mouth of a subterranean passage as concealed by a small cataract in the stream.

  • Dupaix thinks may conceal the entrance to a subterranean passage.

  • The fortress was joined by a subterranean passage to a tower near the east gate of the Temple, so that in case of a popular tumult the king could easily escape into the Antonia[257].

  • Saviour) we find that "from the House of the Prince to the Sepulchre was a subterranean passage, through which they went to the Church of the Sepulchre.

  • Aperture in the Wall leading to Subterranean Passage on the West.

  • Here also a hidden door in the panelling leads towards a subterranean passage running in the direction of the ruinous hall of Kirby, a mile and a half distant.

  • Narrow steps lead up from the open chimney towards a concealed door, from which again steps descend and lead to a subterranean passage having an exit in the garden.

  • A subterranean passage is said to run under the moat from a former hiding-place, but this is doubtful; at any rate, there are no evidences of it nowadays.

  • Herod, moreover, constructed a subterranean passage, leading from the fortress of Antonia to the east gate of the Temple, in order to control the egresses of the Sanctuary.

  • Thereupon the Samaritan, passing through a subterranean passage, approached Eleazar whilst he was engaged in prayer, and whispered in his ear.

  • But John of Gischala and some heroic followers of Bar-Giora, creeping through a subterranean passage, destroyed these works by setting fire to them.

  • But what you do not, perhaps, know, is that under it is the opening to a subterranean passage, leading no one knows whither.

  • The last conspirator had entered the subterranean passage, and Attilio had put the question, "Are the sentinels at their posts?

  • The canal really existed, but the door we have referred to did not lead to it, but to a subterranean passage, gained by a bridge built across this same canal.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "subterranean passage" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


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