Chasm Sentence Examples

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  • On a mountain near their city, there was a narrow chasm or hole in the rocks.

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  • There was nothing but a gaping chasm where the temple had been.

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  • Jenn stared, the image of her lifeless daughter falling into the chasm replaying over and over in her mind.

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  • His soul was … lost soon after we threw your old body into the deepest chasm in the mortal world.

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  • Dunluce Castle, between Portrush and Bushmills, stands on a rock separated from the mainland by a chasm which is spanned by a bridge.

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  • It is, tho, an almost unbridgeable chasm.

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  • The chasm appeared to Dean to be a hundred feet or more to the river below.

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  • This ethical teaching, which is indefinitely higher and purer than that of the Old Testament, is yet its true spiritual child, and helps to bridge the chasm that divides the ethics of the Old and New Testaments.

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  • The consequence was the rapid extension and widening of the chasm that divided the German people.

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  • Katie said, rising.  The ground still rumbled, the trees surrounding both food cubes expanding fast and tearing up the ground in several directions as they did.  She looked around, irritated to find she'd caused a chasm to form between them and the direction they'd been running.

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  • It is thrown over the narrow chasm at a height of 86 feet above the Devon water.

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  • He wriggled through the crowd to her, looking past her at the chasm and the woman sobbing beside it.

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  • The sea floor is here rent by a chasm, known as the "Bottomless Pit," the waters having a depth of 65 ft.

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  • He attacked the dominant Aristotelianism of the time, and endeavoured to construct a philosophy which should harmonize faith and knowledge, and bridge over the chasm made by the first Renaissance writers who followed Pomponazzi.

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  • Over the chasm is a chapel del Crocefisso, the mountain having split, it is said, at the death of Christ.

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  • At the head of the Ausable Chasm are the Rainbow Falls, where the stream makes a vertical leap of 70 ft.

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  • Taurus, flows through a deep chasm walled in by lofty precipices, and is joined in the heart of the range by the Saris.

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  • About a mile west of the town are the curious sea mills; a stream of sea water running down a chasm in the shore is made to turn the wheels.

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  • This aperture is not the original mouth, the latter being a chasm a quarter of a mile north of it, and leading into what is known as Dixon's cave.

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  • The chasm extends the whole breadth of the river and is more than twice the depth of Niagara, varying from 256 ft.

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  • Victorian thinkers called it the ' great chasm ' or the ' fathomless abyss ' .

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  • Anne could not forgive this very public humiliation and it widened the breech between them into a gaping chasm.

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  • Lloyd George " you don't cross a giant chasm in small steps " .

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  • The professors say the project is an effort to bridge the chasm between the two peoples.

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  • In spanning any chasm, it is necessary to take account of the resources available.

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  • The kids in casual clothes with messy hair are separated by a huge chasm from the conservative men in gray suits.

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  • She is sitting on a tripod, three legs going rather high over a huge chasm from which rises incense smelling heavy dense smoke.

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  • Another widening chasm is the one between the largest teacher union and the government.

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  • A skills chasm has emerged in European enterprises between the business requirement to roll out converged IP networks and existing in-house expertise.

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  • Other points of interest are Malham Cove and tarn, the ravine of Gordale Scar, the cliffs of Attermyre, Giggleswick Scar and Castleberg (the last immediately above Settle itself), the Clapham and Weathercote caves, the chasm of Helln Pot and the waterfall of Stainforth Foss.

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  • The whole matter had, therefore, to be adjusted by Congress, and as the growing intensity of the quarrel revealed the depth of the chasm between the sections, Clay came forward with the famous compromise of 1850, and Webster's last great speech - "The Constitution and the Union," or as it is more commonly known "The Seventh of March Speech" - was in support of this Compromise.

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  • This ethical teaching, which is indefinitely higher and purer than that of the Old Testament, is yet its true spiritual child, and helps to bridge the chasm that divides the ethics of the Old and New Testaments."

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  • Something was moving among the rocks at the bottom of the chasm.

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  • So much for the increased horrors of the chasm of Loch Fyne when emptied.

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  • A small, round object twice the size of a dinner plate appeared from the chasm and skimmed over several feet of grass to reach them.

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  • The angel ignored her and dropped beside her, wringing his hands helplessly.  The blond woman dangled over the widening chasm, clutching Katie's hand.  She braced her feet against the side of the chasm and walked upward, until Toby could grab her belt.  The angel pulled hard, and Katie pushed Deidre on top of the angel, who yelped.

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  • It was as if this separation was by miles only, and not the great chasm created by the disap­pearance of Jeffrey Byrne.

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  • The memory of her Talia falling into the chasm returned, filling her thoughts.

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  • His gaze lingered on Vara, and he wondered if the rumors of the widening chasm between him and his father were true.

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  • The assault on Thebes was disastrous for the Seven; and Amphiaraus, pursued by Periclymenus, would have been slain with his spear, had not Zeus with a thunderbolt opened a chasm into which the seer, with his chariot, horses and charioteer, disappeared.

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  • The most uncommon natural feature of the district, the Pink and White Terraces, was blown up in the eruption of Mount Tarawera in 1886, when for great distances the country was buried beneath mud and dust, and a chasm 9 m.

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  • Near the Giant's Causeway are the ruins of the castles of Dunseverick and Dunluce, situated high above the sea on isolated crags, and the swinging bridge of Carrick-a-Rede, spanning a chasm 80 ft.

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  • An isolated portion, divided from the headland by a narrow chasm, is known as the Stack of Noup. Gentleman's Cave, 1 m.

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  • Not only did the great chasm between the old Christianity, to which his soul clung, and the Christianity of the Scriptures as juristically and philosophically interpreted remain unbridged; he also clung fast, in spite of his separation from the Catholic church, to his position that the church possesses the true doctrine, that the bishops per successionem are the repositories of the grace of the teaching office, and so forth.

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  • On one of his raids he and fifty of his companions were captured and thrown into the Caeadas, the chasm on Mt.

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  • During the Italian turmoil the schism in Germany had made such alarming progress that it now proved impossible to bridge the chasm.

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  • Bright orange, yellow, red and purple hues predominate and are set off very effectively against the dark green pines with which the margins of the canyon are fringed, and the white foam of the river at the bottom of the chasm.

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  • In the case of St Stephen's, the peak on which it is built does nor rise higher than the ground behind, from which it is separated by a deep, narrow chasm, spanned by a drawbridge.

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  • Lake Placid is the principal source of the Ausable river, which for a part of its course flows through a rocky chasm from 500 to 175 ft.

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  • The only true glacier is on the northeast side, at the bottom of a large chasm which runs into the heart of the mountain.

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  • It is difficult to account for this intellectual chasm as due to some minor structural difference.

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  • The only outlet is a narrow channel cut in the barrier wall at a point about three fifths from the western end of the chasm, and through this gorge, not more than 100 ft.

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  • The tremendous pressure to which the water is subjected in the confinement of the chasm causes the perpetual columns of mist which rise over the precipice.

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  • From opposite the western end of the falls to Danger Point, which overlooks the entrance of the gorge, the escarpment of the chasm is covered with great trees known as the Rain Forest; looking across the gorge the eastern part of the wall (the Knife Edge) is less densely wooded.

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  • His soul was … lost soon after we threw your old body into the deepest chasm in the mortal world.

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  • She held out her hand.  Toby smiled grudgingly and took it.  Katie led them around the island, trying to find some part of the chasm that was narrow enough to jump or a log they could roll across the gaping ravine.

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  • At the very brink of the chasm his horse stood still.

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  • The same crack extended below in the form of a yawning chasm, five or six feet wide.

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  • Many levels ran parallel across a deep black chasm.

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  • Most famous of all are the magnificent Swallow Falls, situated where the Llugwy River hurls itself into a spectacular chasm.

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  • From him he learned that amid the rocks was a chasm communicating with purgatory, from which rose perpetually the groans of tortured souls, the hermit asserting that he had also heard the demons complaining of the efficacy of the prayers of the faithful, and especially of the monks of Cluny, in rescuing their victims. On returning home the pilgrim hastened to inform the abbot of Cluny, who forthwith set apart the 2nd of November as a day of intercession on the part of his community for all the souls in purgatory.

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  • The Spartans said to one another, Let us throw this fellow into the rocky chasm.

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  • I think that he must have fallen upon some bushes and vines that grew in some parts of the chasm.

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  • The setting, the musicality and even the character choices as well as the frictions between Vulcans (long-treasured allies thanks to Mr. Spock) and the humans, created a real chasm of opinion between Star Trek fans.

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  • When the river is high the water rolls over the main falls in one great unbroken expanse; at low water (when alone it is possible to look into the grey depths of the great chasm) the falls are broken by crevices in the rock into numerous cascades.

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  • William Gilpin, who is so admirable in all that relates to landscapes, and usually so correct, standing at the head of Loch Fyne, in Scotland, which he describes as "a bay of salt water, sixty or seventy fathoms deep, four miles in breadth," and about fifty miles long, surrounded by mountains, observes, "If we could have seen it immediately after the diluvian crash, or whatever convulsion of nature occasioned it, before the waters gushed in, what a horrid chasm must it have appeared!

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  • The dual moons seemed to hover somewhere in the middle of the air of a massive chasm, just like the dozen or so hulking spaceships, whose dark grey skins reflected like skins of massive grey whales in the moonlight.

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  • Deidre and Toby stood.  Katie started forward, only for the rumbling ground to drive her to her knees.  Horrified, she saw the chasm form a rough circle around them, trapping them on a small island surrounded by football field wide trees and chasms too wide to jump.

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  • The commission declared that the chasm between the native and white races had been broadening for years and that the efforts of the administration - especially since the grant of responsible government - to reconcile the Kaffirs to the changed conditions of rule and policy and to convert them into an element of strength had been ineffective.

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  • Thus even on this side there is no real bridge over the chasm that separates the total ruin impending over the Israel of the present from the glorious restoration of the Israel of the future.

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  • At the close of the century the knowledge of Greece and Rome had been reappropriated and placed beyond the possibility of destruction; the chasm between the old and new world had been bridged; medieval modes of thinking and discussing had been superseded; the staple of education, the common culture which has brought all Europe into intellectual agreement, was already in existence.

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  • On the other hand is a hypothetical dualism, according to which it is held that mind cannot bridge over the chasm so far as to know matter in itself, though it is compelled by its own laws of cause and effect to postulate matter as the origin, if not the motive cause, of its sensations.

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  • No doubt many a smiling valley with its stretching cornfields occupies exactly such a "horrid chasm," from which the waters have receded, though it requires the insight and the far sight of the geologist to convince the unsuspecting inhabitants of this fact.

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  • The garden of Eden is placed in the valley of the Araxes; Marand is the burial-place of Noah's wife; at Arghuri, a village near the great chasm, was the spot where Noah planted the first vineyard, and here were shown Noah's vine and the monastery of St James, until village and monastery were overwhelmed by a fall of rock, ice and snow, shaken down by an earthquake in 1840.

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  • As the train rumbled by, the trestle shook and swayed until I thought we should be dashed to the chasm below.

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