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For the horses were to be rested and meat was to be got, as we could not use our guns so freely on the far side of Cumberland Gap. [9]
During the afternoon we passed Sweetwater Creek, Independence Rock, Devil's Gate and the Devil's Gap. [5]
Between that first utterance and the last time it will be uttered on this earth--ah, think how many moldering ages will lie in that gap! [5]
The conspicuous object toward which we traveled all the morning was a shapely conical hill at the beginning of the Gap. [4]
In this way the rich inevitably become the elect, both here and hereafter, and the needle's eye is widened into a gap. [9]
Suddenly a voice roared from out the open transom of the private office, like a cyclone through a gap. [9]
Can you not pursue the retreating enemy, and relieve Cumberland Gap? [7]
He took a long whiff at his pipe, and added thoughtfully, "I reckon this ain't no place fer me now, with all the settler folks and land-grabbers comin' through the Gap. [9]
We had now but one of our starboard nine-pounders on its carriage, and word came from below that our battery of twelves was all but knocked to scrap iron, and their ports blown into one yawning gap. [9]
We fixed on a Saturday to start, to give the horses time to rest, and in the hope that we might hear of some relief party going over the Gap. [9]

More example sentences with the word gap in them

Now, I don't wish to be misunderstood, nor to leave a gap down to be misrepresented, even. [7]
For fifty miles we travelled under it, towards the Gap, our eyes drawn to it by a resistless fascination. [9]
And even if we had the disposition to name them, in order to fill up a gap when we were short of ideas and arguments, our magazines would not allow us to do it, because they think that such words sully their pages. [5]
But so much was said about Hickory Nut Gap that a visit to it could not be evaded. [4]
How long we waited I know not, but at length we heard their voices raised, and without more ado Madame la Vicomtesse, beckoning me, passed quickly through the gap in the hedge and went towards them. [9]
In your movement upon Chattanooga I think it probable that you include some combination of the force near Cumberland Gap under General Morgan. [7]
As we climbed towards the Gap, I recalled with strange aptness a quaint saying of my father's that Kaintuckee was the Garden of Eden, and that men were being justly punished with blood for their presumption. [9]
It is not to be confounded with the French Broad, which originates among the hills of Transylvania, runs northward past Asheville, and finds its way to the Tennessee through the Warm Springs Gap in the Bald Mountains. [4]
The gap closed to a distance to half a mile. [13]
Our track lay through the South Mountain Gap, and led us first to the town of Boonsborough, where, it will be remembered, Colonel Dwight had been brought after the battle. [6]
A wide gap through miles of woods had opened this distant view, and showed more, perhaps, than all the labors of the architect and the landscape-gardener the large style of the early Dudleys. [6]
He is also threatening Leesburg and Geary, on the Manassas Gap railroad, from both north and south--in precisely what force we cannot tell. [7]
And finally, when they asked him, he spoke of making through Carter's Valley for Cumberland Gap and the Wilderness Trail. [9]
When they turned their backs upon a quelled insurrection, there was a gap that not even French buoyancy could fill. [11]
They were on the southern bank of a wide valley, flanked by deep hills looking wise as grey-headed youth, a legion of close comrades, showing no gap in their ranks. [11]
The gap between the old life of nonchalance, frivolity, fantasy, and excitement was as great as that between heaven and hell. [11]
It is for the military men to decide whether they can find a pass through the mountains at or near the Gap which cannot be defended by the enemy with a greatly inferior force, and what is to be done in regard to this. [7]
It swims through the great gap in the mountains, and passing down the valley, sinks upon the prairie of the Ten Stars, where it is lost. [11]
Slowly Wrangle closed the gap down to a quarter of a mile, and crept closer and closer. [13]
I was certain that, if Roscoe or Mr. Devlin were present, a prohibitive influence could be brought to bear; that some one of strong will could stand, as it were, in the gap between them, and prevent a pitched battle, and, possibly, bloodshed. [11]
It is said that when the stage from over Truro Gap arrived in Brampton Street a hundred eyes gazed at him unseen, from various ambushes, and followed him up the walk to Silas Wheelock's, where he was to board. [9]
Among the invitations that came was one from General O. O. Howard asking him to preside at a meeting to raise an endowment fund for a Lincoln Memorial University at Cumberland Gap, Tennessee. [5]
Here is Helen, strong and lithe of limb, ox-eyed, courageous, but woman-hearted and love-inspiring, contended for by all the braves and daring moonshiners of Cut Laurel Gap, pursued by the gallants of two States, the prize of a border warfare of bowie knives and revolvers. [4]
Are the forces still moving north through the gap at Front Royal and between you and there? [7]
Coming to a spot where a great gap of vacant land showed in the street-land which he had bought for the new offices of his railway combine--he stood and looked at it abstractedly. [11]
We were all silent the rest of the way, climbing the slender trail through the forest over the gap into the next valley. [9]
In her studies she was so far in advance of her different classes that there was always a wide gap between her and the second scholar. [6]
This seat was screened from the more public paths by bushes; the promenaders who did not seek Balbilla could not observe her here, but she could command a view, through a gap in the foliage, of the path, which was strewn with small shells. [10]
Miss Watson would say, "Don't put your feet up there, Huckleberry;" and "Don't scrunch up like that, Huckleberry--set up straight;" and pretty soon she would say, "Don't gap and stretch like that, Huckleberry--why don't you try to behave? [5]
Instead of serried rows of bees sealing up every gap in the combs and keeping the brood warm, he sees the skillful complex structures of the combs, but no longer in their former state of purity. [2]
The stream that originates in Hickory Nut Gap is the westernmost branch of several forks of the Broad, which unite to the southeast in Rutherford County, flow to Columbia, and reach the Atlantic through the channel of the Santee. [4]
A long line of steamboats --white, patient animals--was tethered along the levee, and the Louisiana presently swung in her bow toward a gap in this line, where a mass of people was awaiting her arrival. [9]
The water-wagtail, heedless of Paula's hand held out to help her, slipped through the gap so nimbly that it was evident that she had not long ceased surmounting such obstacles in her games with Mary. [10]
Through the streets of Frederick, through Crampton's Gap, over South Mountain, sweeping at last the hills and the woods that skirt the windings of the Antietam, the long battle had travelled, like one of those tornadoes which tear their path through our fields and villages. [6]
They can see now what his prolonged life amounted to, and how the world has closed up the gap he once filled while he still lives in it. [4]
That point is now guarded against us by Zollicoffer, with 6000 or 8000 rebels at Barboursville Ky.,--say twenty-five miles from the Gap, toward Lexington. [7]
I think it not improbable that Ewell, Jackson, and Johnson are pouring through the gap they made day before yesterday at Front Royal, making a dash northward. [7]
The northern terminus must connect with some existing railroad, and whether the route shall be from Lexington or Nicholasville to the Cumberland Gap, or from Lebanon to the Tennessee line, in the direction of Knoxville, or on some still different line, can easily be determined. [7]
Early in the morning he proceeded on his way, and about the middle of the forenoon reached the constricted gap that marked the southerly end of the Pass, and through which led the trail up to the sage-level. [13]
I had my misgivings when I gave you the letter from Humboldt, asking that the post route from Indian Gulch to Shakespeare Gap and intermediate points be changed partly to the old Mormon trail. [5]
Geary, on the Manassas Gap railroad, just now reports that Jackson is now near Front Royal, With 10,000, following up and supporting, as I understand, the forces now pursuing Banks, also that another force of 10,000 is near Orleans, following on in the same direction. [7]
S. Well, I've lost a couple of precious daughters, but I've gained a couple of precious scamps to fill up the gap with; so it's all right. [5]
You are instructed, laying aside for the present the movement on Richmond, to put 20,000 men in motion at once for the Shenandoah, moving on the line or in advance of the line of the Manassas Gap railroad. [7]
The gap between is very wide. [5]
A wide gap, indeed, still lay between him and Marcus. [10]
Entering a gap in the hedge, I caught sight of the shaded seat under the tree which had been the scene of our first meeting with Antoinette, and I hurried past it as I crossed the garden. [9]
He stirred up in a kind of a startlish way; but when he see it was only me he took a good gap and stretch, and then he says: "Hello, what's up? [5]
It was found impossible to get them out without cutting away a portion of the front; and so axes were brought into requisition and a gap made. [5]
Of the two, I would rather have a point on the railroad south of Cumberland Gap than Nashville. [7]
At a word his chestnut mare got away with telling stride in pursuit of the unknown rider, passing up the Gap of Mandakan like a ghost. [11]
I can hear him with his heavy tread as he comes in to the Club, and a gap is widened to make room for his portly figure. [6]
From the palace he had sent an orderly with a command to an officer to move forward and secure the position, but still the gap was open, and the men he had ordered to advance remained where they were. [11]
It was a great relief the next morning, on our return, to rise out of the lifeless atmosphere of the Gap into the invigorating air at the Widow Sherrill's, whose country-seat is three hundred feet higher than Asheville. [4]
There was a great gap in his memory. [11]
If Illinois had got forward as many troops as Indiana, Cumberland Gap would soon be relieved from its present peril. [7]
I took a good gap and a stretch, and was just going to unhitch and start when I heard a sound away over the water. [5]
The coast and Gap movements made, Generals McClellan and Fremont, in their respective departments, will avail themselves of any advantages the diversions may present. [7]
A ring of emerald hills is broken by a little gap to seaward, and in the centre is a miniature emerald isle. [9]
Pity, while it deepened Carterette's tenderness, lessened the gap between them. [11]
I said he could talk very well through the gap at the top; that Pyramus and Thisbe had even kissed through a chink in a wall. [10]
Sunset was almost come, as David left the city and galloped away to send forces to stop the gap of danger before it was filled by the foe. [11]
In the loving circle that surrounded her, death had made another gap which yawned before her, dismal and void. [10]
High above us, as we descended, the gap, from naked crag to timber-covered ridge, was spanned by the eagle's flight. [9]
Wherever a gap appeared in the ranks the rider of a dromedary urged it in, striking downward with his long keen weapon at the foe. [10]
Between that experience and the present one there lies a mighty gap --more than thirty years! [5]
I made fast and laid down under Jim's nose on the raft, and began to gap, and stretch my fists out against Jim, and says: "Hello, Jim, have I been asleep? [5]
And so, when all is done, we shall miss the most interesting thing of all: ourselves dead and the gap and ruin we leave behind us. [11]
The Gap is about twenty-four miles southeast of Asheville. [4]
Dimly, as through a yellow veil, Jane saw Lassiter press the leaders inward to close the gap in the sage. [13]
Our road was a sort of by-way up Gentry Creek and over the Cut Laurel Gap to Worth's, at Creston Post Office, in North Carolina,--the next available halting place, said to be fifteen miles distant, and turning out to be twenty-two, and a rough road. [4]
In a moment a shot, well directed, made a gap in the ranks of the advancing foe. [11]
He made for a gap in the park wall (faith! [9]
Where there is a door there is no window, and where a gap in the wall serves for a window, a door is dispensed with; none of the chambers, however, of this long row of low one-storied buildings communicate with each other. [10]

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