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  • A chasm had appeared, and was growing.†   (source)
  • A chasm she knew to its greatest depths.†   (source)
  • We'd actually deceived ourselves into thinking that a toy made of tissue paper, glue, and bamboo could somehow close the chasm between us.†   (source)
  • The water, black and then white, hurtles down through the limestone chasms and over the boulders, effortlessly as ever.†   (source)
  • This last was issued as a question, as if they had begun to suspect that an incorrect answer would get them flung into a chasm.†   (source)
  • But the little bit of error left was like an uncrossable chasm for Newton and the others.†   (source)
  • There in the center, plunging into the earth like a crystal chasm, gaped the giant inverted pyramid of glass that he had seen a few nights ago when he entered the Louvre's subterranean entresol.†   (source)
  • He would have been so interested to know all this a few months ago, but now it was meaningless compared to the gaping chasm inside him that was the loss of Sirius; none of it mattered … 'Sirius told me you felt Voldemort awake inside you the very night that you had the vision of Arthur Weasley's attack.†   (source)
  • They tugged at my clothes, trying to pull me back, but I felt compelled to walk forward to the very edge of the chasm.†   (source)
  • A few airborne seeds swirl in the wind, then drop into the chasm of shadow between houses.†   (source)
  • There had been trouble enough already, but Briony began to understand the chasm that lay between an idea and its execution only when Jackson began to read from his sheet in a stricken monotone, as though each word was a name on a list of dead people, and was unable to pronounce "inexperienced" even though it was said for him many times, and left out the last two words of his lines—"It can rise up and tread."†   (source)
  • And it became so mysterious that I spent all my energies unraveling this door, until the day I was finally able to pry it open with my small fingers, only to immediately fall headlong into the dark chasm.†   (source)
  • When my feet stumble backward, heels jutting out over the empty chasm that once held Osanos's water weapon, I know it's over.†   (source)
  • They'd begun to argue, a chasm opening up between them, swallowing them, and suddenly, in a rage, she had removed his grandmother's ring from her finger and tossed it into the street, into oncoming traffic, and then Graham had struck her on the face as pedestrians watched.†   (source)
  • The eastern road was wilder and more dangerous, climbing through rocky foothills and thick forests into the Mountains of the Moon, past high passes and deep chasms to the Vale of Arryn and the stony Fingers beyond.†   (source)
  • He was surrounded on all sides by chasms of empty air.†   (source)
  • They're supposed to bond, and right where he stands there's a chasm a mile wide.†   (source)
  • But the notion that climbers are merely adrenaline junkies chasm a righteous fix is a fallacy, at least in the case of Everest.†   (source)
  • Even now, thinking about all the years I've lost makes me feel like I'm on the lip of an enormous chasm, like I could fall in and never come back out.†   (source)
  • In front of him the road was gone … he was looking into a bottomless chasm of swirling snow and vague greenish-gray pines far away and far below.†   (source)
  • I squeezed my hands against my head, as if the motion could physically stop me from falling into that dark chasm.†   (source)
  • We take two steps, then leap over the flaming chasm created by the fallen beam.†   (source)
  • I will try again someday, detouring to the east to find a crossing point, but from the telltale signs of phoenix across the chasm and the pall of smoke along the northeastern horizon, I suspect I will find only the chalma-fi! led canyons and steppes of flame forest that are roughed in on the orbital survey map I carry.†   (source)
  • I wrestled all night, while watching you sleep, with the chasm between what I knew was right, moral, ethical, and what I wanted.†   (source)
  • Wagons had gouged chasms across paths, roads, and would-be lawns.†   (source)
  • Yet somehow Roethke, the greatest poet ever to come from Saginaw, Michigan, finds beauty in that perfectly horizontal surface, where horizons run away from the eye and a drainage ditch is a chasm.†   (source)
  • Would his secret keep him forever apart from other people, create a chasm between them?†   (source)
  • I had fallen through the chasm between two languages.†   (source)
  • The Cruiser has caused a bit of a crack in the solidarity of our team—maybe even a chasm.†   (source)
  • He could almost see a black chasm opening up in the floor behind the gun he was staring at, a darkness sucking any last vestiges of hope from his heart.†   (source)
  • As I glance up, over across the chasm of spiders and books, I see another figure in white.†   (source)
  • I took a turn too early or too late, then tried to compensate by cutting through an alley like a narrow chasm between two tall buildings.†   (source)
  • His entire future was becoming like a river hurtling toward a chasm — the violent nexus beyond which all was fog and clouds.†   (source)
  • The stink of it kept you from painting the beaverboard walls; from getting a matching piece of material for the chair; even from sewing up the split, which became a gash, which became a gaping chasm that exposed the cheap frame and cheaper upholstery.†   (source)
  • He saw—dimly—dangers, mysteries, chasms which he had never dreamed existed.†   (source)
  • 'All that he would have to do," continued the worried bug, "is travel through miles of harrowing and hazardous countryside, into unknown valleys and uncharted forests, past yawning chasms and trackless wastes, until he reached Digitopolis (if, of course, he ever reached there).†   (source)
  • Lord, to think of the chasm of apathy in which we have fallen-a shame, a pitiful shame.†   (source)
  • The distance was back between them, a chasm of the past that he could not cross.†   (source)
  • They were strewn along the edge of a black chasm, the bottom of which no tunnel reaches.†   (source)
  • There is a chasm between them.†   (source)
  • It was like the passing time and my guilt and shame opened up a chasm, wider and wider.†   (source)
  • Sometimes we walked along the edge of a chasm in which the water flowed; sometimes the chasm grew wider and shallower and we walked on the sand beside the river itself.†   (source)
  • Taking in the greenish night-vision hues of the landscape, he leaned toward the window for a better look but could see only treetops—a dark swath of evergreen forest concentrated in the deepest recesses of this narrowing chasm.†   (source)
  • 'Roads,' " she wrote, adding sarcastic quotation marks, "are constructed with great toil and expense, as nature compels the road-maker to follow her lead, and carry his track along the narrow valleys, ravines, gorges, and chasms which she has marked out for him.†   (source)
  • Suddenly Frodo saw before him a black chasm.†   (source)
  • In my childhood dreams, the mountain yawns apart as the chasm spreads.†   (source)
  • I had that feeling then which I described before, that the building around me—the Cabildo, the cathedral, the apartments along the square-all this was silk and illusion and would ripple suddenly in a horrific wind, and a chasm would open in the earth that was the reality.†   (source)
  • My joy of moments before plunged into a black chasm.†   (source)
  • Snippets of horrors from recent days: the steel eye of a gun barrel staring me down from close range; a road strewn with fallen horses; a hollowgast's tongues straining toward me across a chasm; that awful, grinning wight and his empty eyes.†   (source)
  • The church building crumbled, and the school collapsed into dust, then the whole town disappeared into the chasm.†   (source)
  • Holding his hand, she would forget the chasm (the chasm of daylight) that divided them.†   (source)
  • Innocence, the carefree days, hung over a chasm.†   (source)
  • Within four months, we were recording Collateral Damage, comprised of fifteen of the songs I'd written from the chasm of my childhood bedroom.†   (source)
  • Below, the bottom of the chasm was lost in cloud.†   (source)
  • In front of her the earth dropped away into a vast chasm, at the bottom of which boiled a river of red-gold lava, encircling the fortress.†   (source)
  • They watch with mindless, indifferent eyes, as calm and midnight black as the chasm below me.†   (source)
  • "How can they do that?" whispered Max in awe as one alumnus hurdled a forty-foot chasm without breaking stride.†   (source)
  • 'Visit Ausable Chasm,' said one.†   (source)
  • This is a lot like leaping over a chasm.†   (source)
  • Your mind then became a fixed jury who takes orders from a secret underworld, whose verdict distorts the evidence to fit an absolute it dares not touch-and a censored reality is the result, a splintered reality where the bits you chose to see are floating among the chasms of those you didn't, held together by that embalming fluid of the mind which is an emotion exempted from thought.†   (source)
  • They lead us out of the chasm and my pulse quickens, for we are on the heath.†   (source)
  • The chasm is open for your return; but this I must warn you, that once you have gone through, it will close behind you for ever.†   (source)
  • The beds were so high that he had to use pegs in the wall to climb into them, and he jumped from one to the other, sailing over the narrow chasm between.†   (source)
  • The castle, if that's what it was, seemed to be at the end of an unbelievably steep chasm.†   (source)
  • He sprang lightly across a small chasm on the stone ledge and turned back on Wulfgar, his eyes sparkling wildly as they caught the afternoon sun.†   (source)
  • Diamond called out from across the chasm.†   (source)
  • I was still holding the card in my left hand, but Bleys and I stood together on a cliff and there was a chasm to our side and a high fortress to our other side.†   (source)
  • But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover A savage place! as holy and enchanted As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted By woman wailing for her demon-lover!†   (source)
  • Suddenly there opened within her a chasm of infinite depth and from it flowed the paralyzing breath of eternal darkness.†   (source)
  • There was no sense in agreeing or disagreeing, the gulf between us was too wide; it was no use at all flinging our words at each other across that gaping chasm.†   (source)
  • I looked at the sky; it was pure: a kindly star twinkled just above the chasm ridge.   (source)
    chasm = a large gap or divide
  • We were standing at the edge of a chasm.†   (source)
  • We made the ledge, though our heels sent a spray of rubble into the chasm.†   (source)
  • An enormous chasm opened in the void …. as if space itself had ruptured at the seams.†   (source)
  • The teacher's voice changed until it was cold and evil, echoing from the depths of a great chasm.†   (source)
  • In no time there was a makeshift floor snaking out over the chasm.†   (source)
  • I WEAVE THROUGH the crowd next to the chasm.†   (source)
  • The shortest route was across the chasm, and we'd just destroyed the only bridge.†   (source)
  • But then the hoverboard would tumble into the chasm behind her, leaving her stranded.†   (source)
  • The word leaped unbidden from my mouth and echoed through the chasm.†   (source)
  • Numbness set in as he treaded water in the depths of the chasm, calling, crying out.†   (source)
  • I blink down at my feet, only to see a line of strange guns poking out over the edge of the chasm.†   (source)
  • I hear the sound of running water again, but this time it's from a faucet and not from the chasm.†   (source)
  • Apparently they'd managed to cross the chasm without my noticing.†   (source)
  • Then he laughed so abruptly, Jason almost jumped into the chasm.†   (source)
  • The last time Christina pulled me out of bed, it was to see Al's body lifted out of the chasm.†   (source)
  • The chasm reminds us that there is a fine line between bravery and idiocy!†   (source)
  • A deep chasm opened up under her, a fissure cut into the cliffs by the sea.†   (source)
  • I could still feel the grip of the chasm monster around my chest.†   (source)
  • And the test at the chasm bridge, when I'd deflected those daggers—that hadn't seemed like me.†   (source)
  • A cold wind off the ocean blew up the chasm, goose-pimpling her arms like the chill of death.†   (source)
  • The tunnel widened into a huge dark cavern, and in the middle was a chasm the size of a city block.†   (source)
  • On the last day of simulations, they found his body in the chasm.†   (source)
  • +++ I stand at the railing overlooking the chasm.†   (source)
  • They stood together, exhausted and terrified, as the chasm closed like an angry mouth.†   (source)
  • The only sound was a dagger clattering against the rocks in the chasm far below.†   (source)
  • The earth rumbled and tore apart, and Enceladus's legs slid into the chasm.†   (source)
  • The river crashing against the walls of the chasm in the Dauntless compound.†   (source)
  • The drop wasn't as bad as the first chasm, but it was still deep enough to be deadly.†   (source)
  • It sped into the darkness, down into the chasm.†   (source)
  • If you can hang over the chasm for five minutes, I will forget your cowardice.†   (source)
  • Soon the chasm closed, and an hour later she had hiked back up the other side.†   (source)
  • It deposited me at the edge of the ocean proper, where the sand bank dropped off into a huge chasm.†   (source)
  • Leo almost fell into the chasm before Jason pulled him back.†   (source)
  • We are near the chasm—we must be above it, given the volume of the sound.†   (source)
  • Everyone who now sees hurling themselves into the chasm as a viable option.†   (source)
  • Do me a favor and stay away from the chasm, okay?†   (source)
  • I see Four standing by the chasm, a group of people around him.†   (source)
  • They creak under my feet, and I look down to see the Pit and the chasm below us.†   (source)
  • The roar of the chasm ensures that we won't be overheard.†   (source)
  • If we are above the chasm, I know what they intend to do to me.†   (source)
  • For a few minutes we kiss, deep in the chasm, with the roar of water all around us.†   (source)
  • They found him in the middle of the chasm.†   (source)
  • Throwing them into the chasm won't get rid of them forever, but it might make me feel better.†   (source)
  • The mutters stop too, leaving just the rush of water in the chasm.†   (source)
  • I look down into the chasm, at the black water, at the jagged rocks.†   (source)
  • But I don't want to argue again, so I just nod and throw the remaining sheets into the chasm.†   (source)
  • I walk with her toward the railing that overlooks the chasm, glad to be close to her.†   (source)
  • It is the metal railing, the one that overlooks the chasm.†   (source)
  • "If you follow me," says Four, "I'll show you the chasm."†   (source)
  • They will be filtered out at the chasm wall and discarded.†   (source)
  • As you know, we're here because Albert, an initiate, jumped into the chasm last night.†   (source)
  • I turn away from the chasm and see movement on the right side of the Pit.†   (source)
  • The girl child was waiting for them, standing on one end of a natural bridge above a yawning chasm.†   (source)
  • The bad news: did I mention the mile-wide chasm?†   (source)
  • My uncle, who had been kneeling at the edge of the break, also slipped into the chasm.†   (source)
  • They would also be able to watch the woods on both sides of the chasm for snipers.†   (source)
  • They'd been holding hands ever since they dropped into the chasm.†   (source)
  • Within a few seconds, a fifty-foot chasm opened in the Williamsburg Bridge between Kronos and me.†   (source)
  • Then he turned and ran inland across the top of the glacier, leaping a chasm fifty feet across.†   (source)
  • It is a huge slab of dark stone, square and rough, like the rocks at the bottom of the chasm.†   (source)
  • It was as if we stood on opposite sides of a widening chasm.†   (source)
  • Unfortunately, between Annabeth and that exit, the floor was bisected by a chasm fifty feet across.†   (source)
  • Gazing out, Max saw Prusias's forces halting at the chasm he had made.†   (source)
  • Water shot from the chasms and crevices in the ice.†   (source)
  • There were many chinks or chasms between worlds in old times, but they have grown rarer.†   (source)
  • The remaining monsters on their side of the chasm tried to retreat, but the legion cut them down.†   (source)
  • Geoffrey Moore, Crossing the Chasm (New York: HarperCollins, '990.†   (source)
  • Steam rose from the chasm, adding a surrealistic flavor to the spectacle.†   (source)
  • A cliff was on their left and a chasm on their right.†   (source)
  • Your long black hair falls and falls into the chasm.†   (source)
  • "Give my brother all my love," Amatis called, and jumped into the chasm.†   (source)
  • Then he began to plummet, gazing in horror at the seemingly bottomless chasm beneath him.†   (source)
  • Isabelle raised her hands over the chasm.†   (source)
  • So they passed into the dark chasm of the Gates.†   (source)
  • A glorious rainbow emerged from the mist over the whirling chasm.†   (source)
  • The building across the chasm was still deserted, without movement.†   (source)
  • The uproar is only my own shriek, and chasms are, like all things vast, inanimate.†   (source)
  • Across a mile-wide chasm, windows glowed red in the side of a mountain.†   (source)
  • As we come to the chasm through the rock, I hear Amar shouting for order amidst the chaos.†   (source)
  • The chasm walls were striated, black, green-gray, and blue, frosted here and there with ice.†   (source)
  • He looked behind him at the rising sun, then smiled across the chasm.†   (source)
  • Sam, Alex, and I sat at the edge of the chasm, listening to the echoes in the darkness.†   (source)
  • I could still hear the roar of the river in its chasm, and I longed for a drink of clean water.†   (source)
  • She realized that she'd left her makeshift crutch on the other side of the chasm.†   (source)
  • She had felt sure that he would like the idea of sliding down that chasm even less than she did.†   (source)
  • We brought you to the window that looked out across the chasm to the bridge, the van, and the bus.†   (source)
  • Three dead Romans rose into the air and flew across the chasm.†   (source)
  • There are times when I could turn the entire world into that dead black chasm.†   (source)
  • How did Hush Puppies cross the chasm from one group to the next?†   (source)
  • "And you only get half for the one at the chasm," Drizzt retorted.†   (source)
  • Clouds still veiled the bottom reaches of the chasm.†   (source)
  • But you let us climb that cliff, navigate a chasm—†   (source)
  • Darkness roiled at the bottom of the chasm, thicker than fog or smoke.†   (source)
  • Annabeth wondered if Arachne had told the truth about the chasm.†   (source)
  • The chasm was now no broader than a stream.†   (source)
  • In front of them stretched a chasm so wide, Hazel couldn't see the other side.†   (source)
  • They are the ones who make it possible for innovations to overcome this problem of the chasm.†   (source)
  • While I'm teetering over chasms, you two are playing cards all night.†   (source)
  • Percy had managed to grab a ledge about fifteen feet below the top of the chasm.†   (source)
  • And he's definitely big enough to carry us all across the chasm.†   (source)
  • It was therefore not really long before they had opened a great black chasm in the hillside.†   (source)
  • But the moment the bang came and the chasm opened and the sea began rising, it all came back.†   (source)
  • If the statue fell into the chasm, all her work would be for nothing.†   (source)
  • On the far side of the avenue, instead of the M Street Beach, the ground dropped off into a chasm.†   (source)
  • Either they had fled back into the darkness, or they'd fallen into the chasm.†   (source)
  • The depth of the chasm was so bright that at first it dazzled their eyes and they could see nothing.†   (source)
  • Your Honour can see the beginning of the road on the far side of the chasm.†   (source)
  • The chasm did go straight to the Underworld.†   (source)
  • She'd been chased across a chasm by an army of spiders.†   (source)
  • In this way they came to the edge of the chasm.†   (source)
  • Already, while they looked, the chasm was narrower.†   (source)
  • Annabeth threw her flaming torch to the other side of the chasm.†   (source)
  • So deep and narrow was that chasm that the sky was dark, and in it small stars glinted.†   (source)
  • Then I moved to the window, and from that vantage I could see down far into the chasm.†   (source)
  • Frodo gave a cry, and there he was, fallen upon his knees at the chasm's edge.†   (source)
  • I can't help but remember the look in his eyes as he held me over the chasm by my throat or slammed me against the wall in the Dauntless compound.†   (source)
  • There was a sharp pain under his arms, and suddenly Langdon was airborne, legs swinging wildly out over the chasm.†   (source)
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