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The narrow and broken road wound along the dizzy edge of precipices, until it came to where a bridge was thrown across the chasm.
Winifred looked fearlessly down into the vast chasm and saw with composure the end of our train on the other side of the ravine.
Facing each other across this narrow chasm rise two stupendous cliffs, whose peaked summits tower considerably above the rest of the line of cliffs.
This beautiful river takes its rise in romantic chasms, among the ridges and spurs of the Giant Mountains, on the southeastern borders of Silesia.
He was climbing along an awful place where the ledge hung over a chasm, when he spied a small yellow nugget on the ground.
A misty gleam in front shows that the chasm widens; the noise of falling water proclaims a cataract, and soon its trough is reached.
She told herself that this was a good opportunity of working herself into a vivacious mood, which would bridge over the next awful chasm.
Here and there a gossamer suspension bridge dotted with foot passengers flung across the chasm and the air was webbed with slender cables.
In a line with the mountains the plain is gashed with numerous and dangerous chasms, from four to ten feet wide, and of great depth.
Clambering over boulders, leaping across narrow chasms, letting himself down from ledges, his preoccupation soon left him, and physical exertion took the precedence.
She led him back upon the plateau, and, urging him both with whip and voice, she started him again toward the yawning chasm.
The extent of that chasm of debt, in which her fortune was to be swallowed up, now opened upon the eyes of the ill-fated heiress.
Coming from different directions, along different roads, through different temptations, they had reached at last the crumbling edge of the same dark chasm.
Hovering over the fearful chasm were various birds of the most beautiful plumage, peculiar to the spot, and differing from any I had seen before.
Specks of gold may be found in a pan of dirt from any of these streams, followed back to the mountain chasm of its source.
The villages are situated on high and rugged coral peaks, only accessible by steep narrow paths, with ladders and bridges over yawning chasms.
In the roof appeared a chasm, sloping upwards through a small aperture, in which a violent current of air set in, almost extinguishing their torches.
The earth and mountains were violently split and rent in innumerable places, creating chasms and precipices whose depths have never yet been ascertained.
It stood upon the brink of a deep chasm, the sides of which were densely wooded, while at the bottom there was a brawling brook.
The bedrooms, or even attics, could not be as thrilling as that yawning chasm beneath her feet into which she was now about to plunge.
They could not cross the invisible chasm that still yawned between them, although an unusual influence had bridged it over for the present.
Its main portion is a tremendous chasm cleft in a nearly straight line for sixty miles in the Laurentian Mountains, through an almost unsettled wilderness.
It was long before I learned all that had transpired during this fearful chasm in my existence, but gradually the truth was revealed.
He pulled himself out, foot by foot, until fresher air struck his nostrils, and dragged himself nearer and nearer to the edge of the chasm.
Dropping down a waterfall well known to the climbers of this region, we came again upon the ice, which was here cut by complex chasms.
We emerge, like a gay creature of the element, from the chasm, and wing our way up the glen towards the source of the cataract.
A fine hotel has been erected near the entrance to the chasm, from the cupola of which splendid views may be had of the scenery.
As a result of this earthquake, the ridge enclosing the uppermost end of the chasm was found to have acquired about double its former extent.
At the very bottom of the chasm they crossed the fretting waters of the brook; then climbed the steep wall of rock beyond.
We would venture to ascribe a depth of not less than ten miles as the most moderate estimate of the profundity of these terrible chasms.
This movement causes the formation of deep chasms and clefts which are almost bottomless, and which prevent the traveler from making rapid progress.
The purple darkened, night drew nearer; it seemed only to cut clearer the chasms and draw higher the spires of that nightmare landscape.
The following day, April 6, we portaged past another set of rapids, which proved to be the last of the rapids of the chasm.
More than once, in face of some beetling precipice, or on the brink of some gaping chasm, it seemed as if the journey had come to an end.
Out of the fiery furnace of the plain they came in late afternoon to the uplands, plunging into a land of deep gorges and great chasms.
In 1714, Anne died childless, but her reign had bridged the chasm between the experiment of William and Mary and the house of Hanover.
Planet Pluto spread across half the tank with its flat stretches of methane frost broken by low, jagged chasms, hillocks and craters.
The boys left the train at a modern depot, passed through the train-shed, crossed a level sward, and looked down into a mighty chasm.
Slowly and gradually it moved onward, creeping along the cliff, like some huge monster, and protruding its muzzled snout far over the deep chasm.
He threw the stone over it, hauled in on the rope, and in a moment more the saplings were lying at the bottom of the chasm.
At the bottom of the slope tension gives place to pressure, the walls of the crevasses are squeezed together, and the chasms closed up.
In this way the revolutionary chasm was, as it were, bridged over, and the dynasty of the elder Bourbons exhibited on an uninterrupted line.
A dark green chasm, some thirty feet wide, yawned beneath us, its depths scarcely visible in the light thus suddenly let in upon them.
They did so; but in so advancing a chasm intervened between them and the division of Bonnet, which formed part of the French center.
Occasionally huge blocks of the melting crystal were broken off by the action of the water and fell into the chasm with thunderous crashes.
The light of the moon was now filling the chasm and the adventurers could see distinctly for a hundred yards or more ahead of them.
I crouched and gazed at Winifred as she glided along towards a vast mountain of vapor that was rolling over the chasm close to her.
He had indeed almost reached the highest point when a dark, terrific chasm suddenly yawned beneath him, entirely cutting off all farther progress.
Where, a few hours previous, had been a band of men eager to capture or slay the white strangers, was now only a yawning chasm.
"Let us see what damage is done now," said he; and descending, he seized an oar and a rope, and went to the verge of the chasm.
It was very steep, yet easy enough in the descent, and went down in a zigzag direction until it reached the bottom of the chasm.
For by now his mental questioning had spread across a chasm dreaded for long years and flaunted itself gaily in a narrow field.
Bushes grew densely in every cleft and on each ledge; so that the precipitous sides of the chasm appeared to be clothed with stunted shrubs.
It seemed to transport my memory across the chasm of twenty-five years and to call up the scenes, associations and joys of boyhood's happy hour.
As the boy turned in the doorway, he caught sight of the chamois which stood on a stone beside the chasm, stretching its head forward.
There were many loose boulders at the entrance to the chasm, and only in the nick of time did they get behind two of these.
He would not be carried back across the gulf of the last year, across the chasm which those months had rent between them.
He switched his torch on and ran it along the edge of the chasm until he located the rope ladder leading down to the airlock.
She thought for a moment that she saw the very earth, solid and unyielding, break into dangerous pits and chasms before her feet.
She felt a yearning to bridge the chasm, to draw nearer to him, even though she herself had to take the hard steps toward understanding.
All is desolate and silent, save when a solitary falcon, hovering over the vast chasm, awakes with her discordant screech the echoes of the precipice.
At last the mother hit upon a plan: she made her body into a bridge across the chasm, placing her forefeet upon the further rock.
The hole at the top was little more than a foot in width; there was a chasm, a jagged chasm, through which the light came.
The ledge of the road is at times four hundred feet above the frothy watercourse, which in some spots disappears entirely from sight in the chasm.
A new impulse was implanted within me; and, impotent to resist, I was impelled onward, and onward, till a chasm yawned at my feet.
Before me the glen narrowed into a rocky chasm, over which the adventurous trees that clung to the precipitous hillsides spread a dense roof of foliage.
The resemblance between the beautiful woman and the beautiful girl produced the effect of contrast, and ruthlessly dug a chasm of years between them.
It can be said of them that they bridged the chasm of nearly two thousand years that had elapsed between antiquity and modern times.
This gully was in places almost chasm-like in its formation, and was indescribably wild and gloomy in the utter solitude of the gray afternoon.
Suddenly, right in the middle of his verdant field, a great red-lipped chasm opens and blue flames leap upwards and surge toward the sky.
If you can cross the chasm on this trembling bridge, whose surface is thinner than a sunbeam, then you can be sure of getting to Paradise.
Yet the immediate chasm itself is only the first step of a long terrace that leads down to the innermost gorge and the river.
The passage breaks off in a precipice falling to a deep chasm, at the bottom of which a subterranean stream, probably Cougar creek, may be heard.
Across the chasm sturdy mountaineers scrambled from rock to boulder with their sheep and goats, as high as grew the hardiest sprig of vegetation.
He could climb a tree like a cat, and crouch flat in the bushes out of sight to spring up as swiftly as a deer leaping a chasm.
The river here passes through a rocky chasm four miles in length, presenting the greatest variety of cascades and rapids, boiling pools and eddies.
His head seemed to turn round on the brink of a chasm, and the horror of falling down a precipice haunted him even in his dreams!
One of them had been completely torn away by the bullet; the second still stared at the children as if out of a chasm, immovable, frightful.
Happily it grew obliquely, and, if felled by an axe, would probably fall of itself, in such a manner as to be suspended across the chasm.
The chasm may have been fifteen feet deep, and above, about half that breadth; but below, the waves had hollowed it into dark overhanging caverns.
A chasm divides the head from the heart, the intellect from the emotions, the moral and practical from the perceptive and reflective faculties.
After a dozen steps she came to a steep-sided, narrow chasm giving passageway not six feet wide which twisted this way and that before her.
As for the gorge through which this river flows, imagine if you can a yawning chasm ten miles long and fifteen hundred feet in depth.
From this, you may enter a narrow and very tortuous path, called the Labyrinth, which leads to an immense split, or chasm, in the rocks.
Frightful chasms yawned below them, terrific peaks rose above, and at any moment they might be utterly destroyed by bodies of Peruvians in overwhelming numbers.
The hermitage shines out, in all our ancient literature, as the place where the chasm between man and the rest of creation has been bridged.
In front of it there is a shaft, a great, horrible, yawning chasm, several feet wide and very deep, going quite to the basement of the house.
It was reached only by the concentration of certain poetical powers, chiefly speculative imagination, which carried him safely over the chasms of a lower altitude.
Beyond the chasm the bare hillside rises again above our heads in magnificent curves, glowing with color, and cleft here and there into purple gorges.
When they rose again a huge hole showed in the center of the clearing, a gaping chasm that went down deep into the heart of the ice.
Before they realized what he was about to do, Ramon saw the desperate loophole and gathered his horse for the impossible leap across the chasm.
Two bodies of cavalry are fighting with equal courage and resolution; between them yawns an awful chasm, which but few horses would attempt to clear.
Back of us was a confused mass of boulders and chasms, across which I had come when I first encircled the cavern and found Harry.
It was covered in a moment; but, beyond it, still lay a deep and wide chasm, between them and the ramparts they wished to gain.
One turned herself into a gray stone, and then hurled herself down the rocks into a chasm, where the stone broke into a thousand splinters.
If the jump should be successful, well; if not, I fell into the horrible chasm, to be frozen in, or drowned in that gurgling, rushing water.
High on the crest of the wave they soared, down into the chasm they fell, only to shoot upward again, whirling like feathers in the air.
Our deep ignorance is a chasm that we can only fill up by degrees, but the commonest rubbish will help us as well as shred silk.
In many places its brow is overhung by precipitous cliffs, and further down still more steeply walled chasms yawn up from the river bed.
Then I saw that I must straightway dig some chasm impassable between this woman and me, as I should hope to be loyal to my friend.