"Gaping" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... darted a glance of fire at his minion, who stood with gaping mouth staring at the dice, and shaking his head in ...
— Zicci, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... is the time of night, That the graves all gaping wide, Every one lets forth his sprite In the churchway ...
— Select Poems of Thomas Gray • Thomas Gray
... wounded man who lay close to Miles, and the man was resisting him. The other put a quick end to the strife by drawing a knife across the throat of the poor fellow. A horror of great darkness seemed to overwhelm Miles as he saw the blood gush in a deluge from the gaping wound. He tried to shout, but, as in a nightmare, he ...
— Blue Lights - Hot Work in the Soudan • R.M. Ballantyne
... there, his buttocks in a hole, doubled up, gaping at the sky with his legs in the air, and his pumps offered themselves to me with an air that meant they were worth my while. 'A tight fit,' says I. But you talk about a job to bring those beetle-crushers of his away! I worked on top of him, tugging, twisting ...
— Under Fire - The Story of a Squad • Henri Barbusse
... footholds high enough to enable them to nick the tree above the swell of the roots. Standing on these springy and uncertain boards, they began their real work, swinging their axes alternately, with untiring patience and incomparable accuracy. Slowly, very slowly, the "nick" grew, a mouth gaping ever wider in the brown tree. When it had gaped wide enough the men hopped down from their springboards, laid aside their axes, and betook themselves to the saw. And when, at last, the wedges inserted in the saw-crack started the mighty top, the men calmly withdrew the long ribbon of steel and ...
— The Rules of the Game • Stewart Edward White
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