"Few there are who visit the
pits other than the dead, except my pupils--ey!
Find it he did, soon after dawn, and not far from the sand
pits. An enormous hole had been made by the impact of the projectile, and the sand and gravel had been flung violently in every direction over the heath, forming heaps visible a mile and a half away.
Quick, guardsmen, to the
pits with the black maniac who wishes to throw his life away for a poor joke upon your ruler!"
Engines at
pits' mouths, and lean old horses that had worn the circle of their daily labour into the ground, were alike quiet; wheels had ceased for a short space to turn; and the great wheel of earth seemed to revolve without the shocks and noises of another time.
Into the silence and darkness of the
pits you will enter upon your reflection this night with the knowledge that should you fail within a reasonable time to agree to the alternative which has been offered you, never shall you emerge from the darkness and the silence again.
The last notes of the introduction to the opera were being played, and the seats in the
pit were all filled, when Pesca and I reached the theatre.
Often they ceased their labors to squat, resting and gossiping, with much laughter, at the edge of the
pit they were digging.
As he fell he commended himself with all his heart to God, fancying he was not going to stop until he reached the depths of the bottomless
pit; but it did not turn out so, for at little more than thrice a man's height Dapple touched bottom, and he found himself sitting on him without having received any hurt or damage whatever.
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.
And so he did not see or scent what a more wary Numa might readily have discovered until, with the cracking of twigs and a tumbling of earth, he was precipitated into a cunningly devised
pit that the wily Wamabos had excavated for just this purpose in the center of the game trail.
About ten in the morning we halted at Joseph's
Pit. 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.
A PANTHER, by some mischance, fell into a
pit. The Shepherds discovered him, and some threw sticks at him and pelted him with stones, while others, moved with compassion towards one about to die even though no one should hurt him, threw in some food to prolong his life.