Gaps
[gæp]
Examples
- Down below the gaps in the ties the river ran muddy and fast. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Where are the doubts that should have honored these investigations, the frank statement of all the gaps in knowledge, and the obscurities in morals? Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The message necessarily left large gaps for conjecture; but all that he had recently heard and seen made these but too easy to fill in. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- There were great gaps in his consciousness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- They do not perceive the want of connexion in their own writings, or the gaps in their systems which are visible enough to those who come after them. Plato. The Republic.
- There were gaps of silence in the talk, as the dinner got on, that made me feel personally uncomfortable. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- For light upon these extraordinary gaps in his teaching, each reader must go to his own religious guides. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Sheridan pursued him with great energy through Harrisonburg, Staunton, and the gaps of the Blue Ridge. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The gaps remain, and there are not unpopular lodgings among the rubbish. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
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