Gaping

Examples

• Round two sides of it, the sides nearest to the interior of the church, ran heavy wooden presses, worm-eaten and gaping with age. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The gaping wound of my wrongs, too, was now quite healed; and the flame of resentment extinguished. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• It plained of its gaping wounds, its inward bleeding, its riven chords. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• It was a homely little room, with a low ceiling and a gaping fireplace, after the fashion of old country-houses. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Their long, massive necks upreared raised their great, gaping mouths high above our heads. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Let us not think too lightly of the humble five-cent theatre with its gaping crowd following with breathless interest the vicissitudes of the beautiful heroine. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• 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.
• With a bound that left them gaping in wide-eyed astonishment I sprang completely over them. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• For a moment the vessel hovered motionless directly above the centre of the gaping void, then slowly she began to settle into the black chasm. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• You are fascinated by that little dry snake, like a bird gaping ready to fall down its throat. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• It was not like Worcester's, gaping wide open, to receive and retain all the trash that might assail his ears. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Eustacia was indoors in the dining-room, which was really more like a kitchen, having a stone floor and a gaping chimney-corner. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.

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