Caves

Examples

• Besides those which are of common observation it is used for lighting the interior of mines, caves, and the dark apartments of ships, and does not foul the air. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Double sorrow--sadness, bred in Cimmerian caves, robed my soul in a mourning garb. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Other rocks, like limestone, are so readily soluble in water that from the small pores and cavities eaten out by the water, there may develop in long centuries, caves and caverns (Fig. 30). Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Probably early men did not go deeply into the caves, because they had no means of lighting their recesses. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Who can follow an animal which can traverse the sea of ice, and inhabit caves and dens, where no man would venture to intrude? Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• We see the same principle in the character of most of the blind animals inhabiting the caves of America and of Europe. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Showing how caves and holes are formed by the solvent action of water. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The most esteemed of the painted caves is ascribed to the latter part of this the first of the three subdivisions of the newer Pal?olithic. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• These tinctured the silent bosom of the clouds above them and lit up their ephemeral caves, which seemed thenceforth to become scalding caldrons. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• We see it also in the birds of the caves of Brazil. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• It is well known that several animals, belonging to the most different classes, which inhabit the caves of Carniola and Kentucky, are blind. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• However, there was nothing else to consider than an attempt to scale the trees contiguous to the cliff in an effort to reach the caves above. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Lund and Clausen in the caves of Brazil. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• To your brakes and caves, ye outlawed thieves! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• If we could but reach it we might still hope to make the shelter of the cliff caves. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• As the receding wave swept back with a hoarse roar, it seemed to scoop out deep caves in the beach, as if its purpose were to undermine the earth. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Men, who before this change seemed to have been hid in caves, dispersed themselves, and were employed in various arts of cultivation. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• They swarmed out of mud bee-hives; out of hovels of the dry-goods box pattern; out of gaping caves under shelving rocks; out of crevices in the earth. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• I have wandered here many days; the caves of ice, which I only do not fear, are a dwelling to me, and the only one which man does not grudge. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• The population numbers two hundred and fifty, and more than half the citizens live in caves in the rock. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• After a day's rest at Cuernavaca our party set out again on the journey to the great caves of Mexico. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• There are two caves there ahead. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Mr. Clift many years ago showed that the fossil mammals from the Australian caves were closely allied to the living marsupials of that continent. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• All these limestone upper basins must be full of caves, he thought. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Not merely man was taking to the caves. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Many of the paintings are found in the depths of unlit caves. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• My own troop was in commotion; to reach Switzerland, to plunge into rivers of snow, and to dwell in caves of ice, became the mad desire of all. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Arethusa, Asia, and Leucothoe are all waving their white arms, and singing songs of the wondrous caves beneath the waves. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.

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