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Sentences starting with pit

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Sentences ending with pit

It was the smile of one who, unforgetful of the scheme of the firmament and the spinning planets, will not be moved to anger by him who sees but the four sides of a pit. [9]
Keep a rat pit? [5]
Therefore we tarried only a short time at the pit. [5]
The soldiers dragged it awkwardly from the post and began pushing it into the pit. [2]
Such is the history of the pit. [5]
He'd legislate the devil out of the Pit. [11]
The Major again consigns to the deep all his letters, all except one which he forgot, in the pocket of his coat, under the arm pit. [11]
The ceremonies of bathing were gone through with, and by three o'clock she was ready and the fire was briskly burning in the pit. [5]
Sometimes it seemed as if the hole was a bottomless pit. [4]

Sentences containing pit two or more times

This is a ruined Khan of the Middle Ages, in one of whose side courts is a great walled and arched pit with water in it, and this pit, one tradition says, is the one Joseph's brethren cast him into. [5]
The elephant whose mate fell into a pit, and who dumped dirt and rubbish into the pit till bottom was raised high enough to enable the captive to step out, was equipped with the reasoning quality. [5]
Beyond that post a fresh pit had been dug in the ground, and near the post and the pit a large crowd stood in a semicircle. [2]

More example sentences with the word pit in them

This one, a young soldier, his face deadly pale, his shako pushed back, and his musket resting on the ground, still stood near the pit at the spot from which he had fired. [2]
Here was a yawning pit upon whose floor the armies of Russia could camp, and have room to spare. [5]
Thou, O Lord, who didst let the water-flood overflow her, didst not let the deep swallow her up, nor the pit shut its mouth upon her. [6]
When we entered, we were assailed with yells in many languages, and howls in the common tongue, as if all the fiends of the pit had broken loose. [4]
The crater of Vesuvius, as I have before remarked, is a modest pit about a thousand feet deep and three thousand in circumference; that of Kilauea is somewhat deeper, and ten miles in circumference. [5]
The scenes were very fine, the boxes carved and gilded in excellent good taste, and both pit and gallery commodious. [9]
No; the raggedest tramp in the pit would smile at the idea. [5]
A more authentic tradition, aided by the geography of the country, places the pit in Dothan, some two days' journey from here. [5]
Such was Jethro's torment that morning as he saw her drive away, the minister in the place where he should have been, at her side, and he, Jethro Bass, as helpless as though he had indeed been in the pit among the flames. [9]
He began slowly to pit against his former startling admissions the testimony of his few principles, and to buttress them on every side with apposite observations, naive, pungent. [11]
She was sixteen, they tell me, when the old gentleman emerged from the pit, and they packed her off to a convent by the next steamer. [9]
But she knew the way, and had determined to follow the Danube and go along the woodlands to the tanner's pit, whence the Hiltner house was easily reached. [10]
No sooner had the sun begun to pit the snow hillocks than wild creatures came in from the mountains, haggard with hunger and hardship. [9]
Pierre glanced into the pit and saw that the factory lad was lying with his knees close up to his head and one shoulder higher than the other. [2]
This entrance to the infernal regions was frozen over the day I saw it; so that the profane prophecy of skating on the bottomless pit might have been realized. [4]
The pillars of the front and back piazzas are pine stems stained, with the natural branches cut in unequal lengths, and look like the stumps for the bears to climb in the pit at Berne. [4]
Each room had the customary bath attached--a room ten or twelve feet square, with a roomy stone-paved pit in it and abundance of water. [5]
Behind them was the blank failure of a life--fifteen years of miserable torture, of degradation, of a daily descent lower into the pit, of the servitude of shame. [11]
There was some smoke, and the Frenchmen were doing something near the pit, with pale faces and trembling hands. [2]
There was a sinking at the pit of his stomach, as if he was in a swing, as high as he could go, close up to the swallows' nests and spiders' webs. [6]
For a second she looked into his face as one who escapes a pit gazes over the precipice, and shuddered. [9]
Often have I seen two animals thrust into a pit with nothing but good-will between them, and those without force them into anger and a deadly battle. [9]
It was a rough and unsavory audience in pit and gallery, but it was a responsive one, and it enjoyed the acting with little help to illusion in the way of scenery. [4]
There are various reasons for this forbearance: one is old; one is rich; one is good-natured; one is such a favorite with the pit that it would not be safe to hiss him from the manager's box. [6]
In a great pit lay the mate of the largest stone in the ruins. [5]
His hand was on the pit of his stomach, and his countenance was expressive of inward uneasiness. [6]
At the time of which I have just been speaking the crowds in the galleries were gazing at the stage and the pit with rapt interest and expectancy. [5]
David saw his mood, and pursued the startled mind into the pit of confusion. [11]
And when we let go of the infallibility of the Church, we began to slide toward what looked like a bottomless pit, and we clutched at the infallibility of the Bible. [9]
When the body is bundled in the pit, I see myself lie still under the quick-lime with the red mark round my throat. [11]
If the pit I have been speaking of is the right one, a scene transpired there, long ages ago, which is familiar to us all in pictures. [5]
And so watch him fretting to the slow-coming end, while now and again you give him a taste of hope, to drop him back again into the pit which has no sides for climbing. [11]
For the world has never assembled such an epitome of itself, in its passion for pleasure and its passion for display, as in the modern opera, with its ranks and tiers of votaries from the pit to the dome. [4]
When the pit had been filled up a command was given. [2]
Last evening my good Betta would have thought no pit of hell too deep for our enemy, and now? [10]
The stage was forty-three feet wide, and projected into the middle of the yard (as the pit was called), where the groundlings stood. [4]
Suddenly the thought flashed into his mind that his challenger would not have thrust himself into danger, given himself to the mouth of the Pit, if violence were intended. [11]
The dead- carts filled with decaying bodies rattled through the foul streets, to drop their horrid burdens into the great pit at Aldgate; the bells of London tolled all day and all night for the passing of human souls. [11]
It is not fair to pit a few chosen families against the great multitude of those who are continually working their way up into the intellectual classes. [6]
For those who dwell in the Pit never suffer as do they who struggle with this appetite. [11]
Steam is the devil himself let loose from the pit, and all labor-saving machinery is his own invention. [4]
Both the gentlemen complained of a sudden feeling at the epigastrium, or, less learnedly, the pit of the stomach, changed color, and confessed to a slight tremor about the knees. [6]
But when you come to fertilizing, if I understand the agricultural authorities, you open a pit that will ultimately swallow you up, --farm and all. [4]
I had but come back in time--a day later, and he would have sat here and seen me in the Pit below before giving way. [11]
Both actors and audience, contemplated from the pit of a theatre, look better than when seen in the boxes and behind the scenes. [4]
However, since there are many who believe in this present pit as the true one, it has its interest. [5]
It was true; all the six tiers were filled, and remained so to the end--which suggested that it is not only balcony people who like Shakespeare in Germany, but those of the pit and gallery, too. [5]
The city was a pit of infamy, where struggled, or wallowed, or died to the bellowing of the Khalifa's drum and the hideous mirth of his Baggaras, the victims of Abdullah. [11]

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