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Obviously, as Professor Huxley points out, between philosophical faith and philosophical knowledge there is a chasm to be bridged over.
It means death to try to get across that chasm, now that they have been aroused from their long sleep.
However, his nature compels man to seek the companionship of other men, and this tends to bridge over the chasm.
The chasm of this latter river has been formed at the point of contact of the lava with the granite.
Accordingly, the great chasm between physical and psychological research exists only for the common stereotyped method of observation.
Their uneven brick walls glowed in the last rays of the sun high up above the chasm of the street.
The reason you can't see that chasm from below or from in front is because the face of it is walled up.
At that moment, torrents of rain poured from above, and stronger blasts thundered amidst these desolate recesses and profound chasms.
Somebody has said of heroic character that "wherever the tallest peaks are present, must inevitably be deep chasms and valleys."
There were passes and chasms like the portals of far-off, inaccessible Paradise, "With dreadful faces thronged and fiery arms."
And the chasm was a mile beyond the dip, and the entrance into that chasm still two miles farther.
Just ahead, where a short time before had been a bridge spanning a deep chasm, there was now nothing but space.
The dark town just then was like a mountain chasm when a storm that has been gathering is about to break.
In large measure, such a department reduces this feeling and bridges the chasm between the men and the firm.
Contains a further definition of revenge, its force, effects, and the chasm it leaves on the mind when once it ceases.
Nothing but dark and fearful chasms, separated by sharp-crested and perpendicular ridges as far as the eye could reach.
I heard a roar of some waterfall or other, and the first I knew, I saw the chasm immediately below me!
Johnston could not bear to be considered cowardly, so he stepped to the verge of the chasm and prepared to jump.
In about an hour they came to a wide chasm on the other side of which towered a vast cliff of white crystal.
Crossing the chasm, they descended, letting themselves from rock to rock, and running whenever a sheep walk became visible.
Again the singing was heard, ascending from a deep chasm, and presently I saw rising out of it three female figures.
This outlet is now stopped, and the water has risen and filled all these chasms made by the earthquake.
The evenings at the beach gate were at an end; the distance between the two houses had grown into a chasm.
He caught the branch of a tree suspended over the terrible chasm, but unable to regain the ground, shrieked for help.
They comprised various chambers or compartments, the most remote of which terminated at a deep chasm that was full of water.
Beyond him the chasm widened between sheer walls, and it was in this shaft that the lowered rope hung.
Along the rim was a yard-wide level, with the chasm to the left and steep slope to the right.
The bitter resentment he had first felt against this chasm was gone now, for now he understood and accepted.
They must be over the chasm, camped there, thinking they were safe because there was no way to get at them.
We stood at the very edge of the chasm thus suddenly formed, gazing at each other in silent wonder and awe.
Safely, through the skill of the chief, the chasm was passed, and they were beyond the reach of danger.
A man had been accused of witchcraft, and thrown down into the great chasm, a distance of over one hundred feet.
Suddenly a vein of red lava showed itself in a narrow chasm, over which several of the warriors had already leaped.
He did not try to leap across the narrow chasm, he would have to wait until the pain left his shoulder.
She looked in vain for her little basket, but it had rolled away long ago into a chasm beneath her feet.
Then the valleys began to open out of the chasm of night-dark canyons wrought in the wilderness of the mountain sides.
When I raised my head and listened, it seemed to me that the farmhouse hung suspended in the middle of a chasm.
Left to his own uninterrupted thoughts, Rod's mind was once more absorbed in his scheme of exploring the mysterious chasm.
The chasm that divided the two camps would have grown so wide that no bridge could possibly have spanned it.
Observe the attitude of the knight who has laid his sword across a chasm in order to use it as a bridge.
He wrote nothing autobiographical, and he had a strong sense of the chasm that should separate private from public life.
Roosevelt took personal pleasure in the bridging of the chasm which had opened between him and his former party intimates.
The chasm is so deep and narrow, that the water, descending in a silvery veil, seems flowing from the clouds.
To tumble down a chasm, or to fling oneself on sharp rocks was no more than a fall upon a soft cushion.
Something in his manner, rather than his words, wiped out that chasm of time that had been placed between them.
Here they both went down one side of the chasm and up the other until they both reached the tower.
I suppose that chasm he cleared seemed as wide and deep to him as Niagara Gorge would to us if we leaped over it.
Never before had I seen or heard of such a terrific chasm, and may I never again be caught in its like!
Then slowly the Thing began to move; quietly it glided to the chasm it had blasted in the cliff wall.
The ground suddenly sloped sheer down, and he saw at his feet a chasm, close by a huge, projecting rock.
The woman then tapped the earth with one of these feet of hers, and disappeared into the chasm she made.
Here they could see down the pass which they had come, also two other approaches or chasms in the mountain.
Creeping still closer, Jim finally lay on the brink of the chasm and looked down ... into awesome, impenetrable blackness.
They all looked up at the steep slope, down into the chasm right below them, and across into the cedars.
Calling across the chasm, they explained to Sandy that they must find some other place to cross over to him.
At about the same time, the first tractor came into view again, now traveling north on the farther side of the chasm.
Then, as the thunder crashed above their heads, Linton beheld a vast and fiery chasm open in the laboring hill.
He placed a palm on either side of the chasm he had opened for his escape, and vaulted easily to the surface.
A roar went up from the spectators, who had now broken formation to crowd along the edges of the chasm.
Day after day I anticipated the delight of putting her into the arms of her father; but, what a chasm!
The stream here flows through a deep rocky chasm, the sides of which are in some places about four hundred feet high.
If you were looking down from above, it would just seem like a chasm because you cannot see the path at the bottom.
Those ten minutes among the rocks of the chasm had broken and beaten him until his strength was gone.
"And from that point we shall have to carry our canoe and supplies to the creek in the chasm," finished Rod.
Rod saw that this meant the abandonment of his scheme for exploring the chasm, at least for the present.
It masked the depths in both of them; or rather it was a first bridge thrown over the chasm between them.
Here you can see the mist that is caused, or spray rising from the chasm of the Falls, at this distance.
These flow into the central lake, which discharges into the surrounding ocean by a rift or chasm in the mountain side.
There the walls of the chasm drew back to form a little valley a mile long by half a mile wide.
Once they had to stop and build a bridge by felling a tree, and walking across it over a dangerous chasm.
In the distance arose lofty rocks, piled one above the other and split up by chasms full of ice and snow.
A canyon is either a narrow valley with very high steep sides to it, or a chasm between two rocky walls.
There being no clash between personal and social interests, men had no conception of a deep chasm between good and bad.
His words carried across the chasm and to the man who squatted close against the wall of the cliff.
Across the phantom bridge which still spanned the chasm, he saw with satisfaction thousands passing into his own camp.
They went around the chasm, and then through one of the narrow cracks to come out upon the rim, among cedars.
Immense quantities of boulders were hurried down the trough of the chasm, accompanied by a stream of mud and melting ice.
Great chasms or bowls occur, and slender pillars of rock rise above the surrounding forest like dead trunks of giant trees.
This wonderful chasm varies in breadth from about two miles, at its narrowest neck, to about six at its widest point.
Then, in answer to a call from Harry, I turned and leaped across the chasm, throwing the spears ahead of me.
We look upon them as separated from each other by an infinite chasm, so that opposite categories can never get at each other.
The hunter soon found his course stopped by a deep chasm that lay in front and to the right of him.
Meanwhile, in hurrying reinforcements to this portion of the line of battle, a chasm was opened between the center and left.
They were looking through a tunnel made, as they afterward found, in the base of the filled-in portion of the chasm.
It was a mere snapping of the threads across the chasm which had always separated Rachel from her second husband.
Beyond this chasm he came to more walls like those of houses, such as would be left if the roofs fell in.
To save her reason, Barbara, with her wonderful tenderness, had bridged over the chasms between her stark peaks of discovery.
After a long conference, it was decided to keep to the west and endeavor to pass around the chasm in that direction.
While they stood on the edge of the chasm considering the situation, a bright blaze leaped up some distance to the north.
The climb down the steep slope into the chasm was swifter than that up the canyon but no more pleasant.
The pillow in place, Alec again climbed from the chasm and was locking on his skis when Troy slid up.
Springs of the purest water abound, and, by avoiding the chasms, the country is susceptible of being traversed by roads.
He deliberately threw himself into the chasm, thinking that the strain thus put upon the rope would stop the motion.
The sides of this gigantic chasm have literally almost all the colors of the rainbow displayed upon their vertical surfaces.
Great chasms had been created here, and there mounds of broken trees and tons of river mud deposited over them.
Then, as two streams in flood meet in some chasm, so the armies dashed together, shield on shield and spear on spear.
The ground of the little valley fairly gave way, the nest tilted over till its contents fell into the chasm.
It is less than a mile away, and yet what an awful chasm between us, a chasm deeper than it is wide.
With time enough, the gentle forces of air and water will surely change the whole aspect of this tremendous chasm.
The beds of rivers are the lowest parts of great chasms, formed by the same revolutions which produced the mountains.