quotes about Caverns
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Child of woe is wane and delicate... sensitive and on the quiet side, she loves the picnics and outings to the underground caverns... a solemn child, prim in dress and, on the whole, pretty lost... secretive and imaginative, poetic, seems underprivileged and given to occasional tantrums... has six toes on one foot...
-- Charles AddamsSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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At Halloween, when fairy sprites Perform their mystic gambols, When ilka witch her neebour greets, On their nocturnal rambles; When elves at midnight-hour are seen, Near hollow caverns sportin, Then lads an' lasses aft convene, In hopes to ken their fortune, By freets that night.
-- Janet LittleSource : Janet Little, “On Halloween”
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...and the distance between them, millimeters only, the space of a breath, opened up and deepened, became a cavern at whose edge he stood.
-- Kim EdwardsSource : Kim Edwards (2006). “The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel”, p.119, Penguin
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Science is still only a candle glimmering in a great pitch-dark cavern.
-- Mario Vargas Llosa -
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Friends depart, and memory takes them To her caverns, pure and deep.
-- Thomas Haynes BaylySource : Thomas Haynes Bayly (1844). “Songs and Ballads, Grave and Gay”, p.48