Cavern
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With these words he approached the cavern, and perceived that it was impossible to let himself down or effect an entrance except by sheer force or cleaving a passage; so drawing his sword he began to demolish and cut away the brambles at the mouth of the cave, at the noise of which a vast multitude of crows and choughs flew out of it so thick and so fast that they knocked Don Quixote down; and if he had been as much of a believer in augury as he was a Catholic Christian he would have taken it as a bad omen and declined to bury himself in such a place.
He got up, however, and as there came no more crows, or night-birds like the bats that flew out at the same time with the crows, the cousin and Sancho giving him rope, he lowered himself into the depths of the dread cavern; and as he entered it Sancho sent his blessing after him, making a thousand crosses over him and saying, "God, and the Pena de Francia, and the Trinity of Gaeta guide thee, flower and cream of knights-errant.
I wished to follow her, and would have done so had not Montesinos recommended me not to take the trouble as it would be useless, particularly as the time was drawing near when it would be necessary for me to quit the
cavern.
He observed too that it opened and widened out into another spacious cavity; seeing which he made his way back to where the ass was, and with a stone began to pick away the clay from the hole until in a short time he had made room for the beast to pass easily, and this accomplished, taking him by the halter, he proceeded to traverse the
cavern
to see if there was any outlet at the other end.
In the lower windows, which were decorated with curtains of a saffron hue, dangled two or three printed cards, bearing reference to Devonshire cider and Dantzic spruce, while a large blackboard, announcing in white letters to an enlightened public, that there were 500,000 barrels of double stout in the cellars of the establishment, left the mind in a state of not unpleasing doubt and uncertainty as to the precise direction in the bowels of the earth, in which this mighty
cavern
might be supposed to extend.
'When Gabriel Grub had had time to fetch his breath, which the rapidity of his descent had for the moment taken away, he found himself in what appeared to be a large cavern, surrounded on all sides by crowds of goblins, ugly and grim; in the centre of the room, on an elevated seat, was stationed his friend of the churchyard; and close behind him stood Gabriel Grub himself, without power of motion.
'"And now," said the king, fantastically poking the taper corner of his sugar-loaf hat into the sexton's eye, and thereby occasioning him the most exquisite pain; "and now, show the man of misery and gloom, a few of the pictures from our own great storehouse!"'As the goblin said this, a thick cloud which obscured the remoter end of the
cavern
rolled gradually away, and disclosed, apparently at a great distance, a small and scantily furnished, but neat and clean apartment.
The believers in the weathercock tale, having misplaced their confidence once, were not easily prevailed upon to part with it again, so they looked as wise as they could, shrugged their shoulders, touched their foreheads, and murmured something about Gabriel Grub having drunk all the Hollands, and then fallen asleep on the flat tombstone; and they affected to explain what he supposed he had witnessed in the goblin's cavern, by saying that he had seen the world, and grown wiser.
But this opinion, which was by no means a popular one at any time, gradually died off; and be the matter how it may, as Gabriel Grub was afflicted with rheumatism to the end of his days, this story has at least one moral, if it teach no better one--and that is, that if a man turn sulky and drink by himself at Christmas time, he may make up his mind to be not a bit the better for it: let the spirits be never so good, or let them be even as many degrees beyond proof, as those which Gabriel Grub saw in the goblin's cavern.'
One might have thought there was in that cellar one of those famished ogres--the gigantic heroes of popular legends, into whose
cavern
nobody could force their way with impunity.
The lamps were hung upon a projection in the lava; we were in a sort of
cavern
where there was plenty of air.
This
cavern
was about a hundred feet wide and a hundred and fifty in height.
Yours must lead into it, for it seems as if all the clefts and fractures of the globe radiated round this vast
cavern.
It was like an aurora borealis, a continuous cosmical phenomenon, filling a
cavern
of sufficient extent to contain an ocean.
The word
cavern
does not convey any idea of this immense space; words of human tongue are inadequate to describe the discoveries of him who ventures into the deep abysses of earth.
And yet I cannot understand the appearance of these quadrupeds in a granite cavern."
As for the ichthyosaurus--has he returned to his submarine
cavern?
It rushes on from the farthest recesses of the vast
cavern.
Yet it must be believed that that fissure is now closed, and that all this
cavern
or immense reservoir was filled in a very short time.
Otto Liedenbrock, yielding to his nature, forgot all the circumstances of our eventful journey, forgot where we were standing, forgot the vaulted
cavern
which contained us.
What other marvels did this
cavern
contain?
The place where they had halted was wider, so as to form a
cavern
of moderate dimensions.
They searched the cavern, but the dog was not there.
There the passage ended in a vast and magnificent
cavern.
The enormous
cavern
was empty.
The dog, excited by his master's words, ran towards the extremity of the cavern, and there redoubled his barking.
The floor of the
cavern
must thus be situated ninety feet above the level of the sea.
They had now at their disposal a vast cavern, the size of which could not be properly calculated by the feeble light of their torches, but it would certainly be easy to divide it into rooms, by means of brick partitions, or to use it, if not as a house, at least as a spacious apartment.
Floods of light entered by this hole, inundating the splendid
cavern
and producing a magic effect!
This
cavern
was a picturesque mixture of all the styles of Byzantine, Roman, or Gothic architecture ever produced by the hand of man.
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