Yawned

Examples

• They had no sense of the other possibility, the gulf of the republican extremists, that yawned at their feet. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Then she was dragged toward those awful fangs which yawned at her throat. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• The lawn, the grounds were trodden and waste: the portal yawned void. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• It wouldn't be bad,' he yawned at one time, 'to give the waiter five shillings, and throw him. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• But the Colonel yawned sadly among the Duchesses and great ladies of the Court. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• A black hole yawned beneath into which we all peered, while Musgrave, kneeling at the side, pushed down the lantern. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• The jackal removed the towels from his head, which had been steaming again, shook himself, yawned, shivered, and complied. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• He looked sleepy and as Robert Jordan watched him he yawned. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Directly behind her a black gulf suddenly yawned in the flooring of the dais. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.

Edited by Blair