All 4 Uses of
chasm
in
The Thief, by Turner
- 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.†
Chpt 7 *chasm = a large gap or divide
- 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.†
Chpt 7
- I could still hear the roar of the river in its chasm, and I longed for a drink of clean water.†
Chpt 11
- The ground we were on had been rising, and the river ran beside us through a chasm thirty or forty feet deep.†
Chpt 11
Definition:
a large and deep and steep-sided opening on the earth's surface; or (more rarely) any large gap
or:
a very large difference -- often of opinion
or:
a very large difference -- often of opinion