Picture the scene, gentlemen, when, pursued for long miles by the mounted warriors of the tyrant, our dauntless friend sped on unfaltering on his matchless steed, and was not abashed when he beheld the yawning gulf unbridged before him.
It wound this way and that, a rough wall of rock rising high on the left hand; on the right long slopes and sheer descents, crossed by yawning gullies, stretching downwards for hundreds of feet.
As he stood there, on the brink of the yawning gulf, March could see right through into the cavern he had just left, and could observe everything that took place there.
He had to stoop on entering; and great was his amazement on finding himself on the brink of a black yawning gulf, that seemed to descend into the bowels of the earth.
On reaching the edge of the yawning chasm, the foremost savage held the torch over it, and they all gazed in silence into its unfathomable depths.
Then turned and down her yawning throat I launched that devil's pill!
In and out of its yawning doorway strutted fine gentlemen, chaplains, and wits, while grooms, public and private, swarmed round the house.
If they were not entertained, they showed their weariness without restraint, by yawning outrageously.
They had banged at the door for fully ten minutes; and at last the old man, yawning and draped about in a dressing gown, had let them in.
Then the two had left the yawning captain to return to his bed--and that was all.
Then again the road winds round a huge mountain wall, thousands of feet high on one side, with a yawning ravine thousands of feet deep on the other.
She held it fast an instant before letting it fall into theyawning slit.
Me picking up stitches in her knitting, yawning in a parlour with a parrot!
Through it one catches a glimpse of sacks and cases piled high, of cans and barrels; men with ropes and wheelbarrows are moving around, still half asleep, yawning openly with angular, bearded jaws.
As he anticipated, the two sets of rails joined a little way back and they saw the yawning entrance to a tunnel about nine feet wide and the same height.
Columns of smoke rose above the wall, which was now quite near, yawning with breach upon breach.
Three men disappeared down the yawningmouth of the tunnel; then a fourth; then a fifth.
At another he saw a branch of a tree overhanging a yawning abyss; to try his presence of mind he swung himself on to it, and hung over the precipice; but crack!
Its dripping arches overhung the cataract beneath, Its pendant massive icicles appeared like dragon's teeth; And lost in contemplation of this fearfulyawning cave, I deemed its chilly arches the recesses of the grave.
Upon his crested scalp so sore did smite, scalp > crown of the head, cranium 8 That to the skull a yawning wound it made: 9 The deadly dint his dulled senses all dismayed.
Thence turning back in silence soft they stole, 2 And brought the heavy corse with easy pace corse > body 3 To yawning gulf of deep Avernus' hole.
Thence turning backe in silence soft they stole, 2 And brought the heauie corse with easie pace To yawning gulfe of deepe Auernus hole.
Vast clefts traverse them, yawning far into the earth.
I am ennuyé beyond my usual tense of that yawning verb, which I am always conjugating; and I don't find that society much mends the matter.
Once she asked for a particular ballad, which she said her Ury (who was yawning in a great chair) doted on; and at intervals she looked round at him, and reported to Agnes that he was in raptures with the music.
A yawning Customs' searcher glanced at his baggage and passed it unopened.
He put out the lights and locked the door behind that yawning emptiness which once had been his lab, which he would never see again.
He had hesitated for a moment, feeling the abyssyawning beneath him; then he had falsed, made the pass, and won the game.
Then I was in the mill again; the wheels were turning and stretching out ghostly hands to draw me into the yawning maw of the machine.
At last, a knock; Scodrus, the yawning valet, ushering in a black and bearded sailor, who crouched eastern fashion at the feet of the strategus.
Sicinnus to the yawning marine officer who advanced to greet them as they reached the top of the ladder.
Tall weeds and long frames with teeth in them, which gave them the appearance of huge alligator mouths yawning from the dusk to snap me, pressed close on each side.
At last she saw the yawning gulf beneath her feet, and she uttered a cry of terror.
Forthwith the earth opened, making a way down into Tartarus; and the chariot vanished through the yawning cave, leaving Cyane dissolved in tears of grief for the ravished maiden and her own slighted domain.
Then the priestess led the way back into the gloomy wood, halting before a cavern, vast and hideous with its yawning black mouth, from which exhaled so poisonous a breath that no bird could cross it unhurt.
Alan came in, yawning and stretching, and dropped into the chair just vacated by Katharine.
