1 She shuddered, turning her eyes from Cathleen as she realized how narrow was the chasm between quality folk and poor whites.
2 He seemed to see her poised on the brink of a chasm, with one graceful foot advanced to assert her unconsciousness that the ground was failing her.
3 Duncan seized the favorable moment to spring to the body of Gamut, which he bore within the shelter of the narrow chasm that protected the sisters.
4 Without waiting for a reply, he tore himself from the presence of the sisters, and joined the scout and his companions, who still lay within the protection of the little chasm between the two caves.
5 Cries were heard in the startling vicinity of the chasm between the two caves, which mingled with hoarser yells that arose out of the abyss of the deep ravine.
6 They were now in a straight and long gallery, in a chasm of the rocks, where retreat without encountering the animal was impossible.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 24 7 Phineas easily leaped the chasm, and sat down the boy on a smooth, flat platform of crisp white moss, that covered the top of the rock.
8 On they came, and in a moment the burly form of Tom appeared in sight, almost at the verge of the chasm.
9 Down he fell into the chasm, crackling down among trees, bushes, logs, loose stones, till he lay bruised and groaning thirty feet below.
10 Before them, at their very feet, was the brink of a black ragged chasm hidden by the thick grass.
11 It's going down the bottomless pit, down the chasm.
12 Their departure made another material change at Mansfield, a chasm which required some time to fill up.
13 A few yards from the end the soil was all ploughed up into a patch of mud, and the branches and ferns which fringed the chasm were torn and bedraggled.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In XII. The Adventure of The Final Problem 14 A huge rock, falling from above, boomed past me, struck the path, and bounded over into the chasm.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In I. THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY HOUSE 15 The bridge was a plank, and it crossed a chasm about four feet wide and two deep.