cavern

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1. cavern - Noun

2. cavern - Verb

Meaning

A large, deep, hollow place in the earth; a large cave.

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In misery's darkest cavern known, His useful care was ever nigh Where hopeless anguish pour'd his groan, And lonely want retir'd to die. Samuel Johnson

Down the mountain walls From where Pan's cavern is Intolerable music falls. Foul goat-head, brutal arm appear, Belly, shoulder, bum, Flash fishlike nymphs and satyrs Copulate in the foam. William Butler Yeats

Something inside me had dropped away, and nothing came in to fill the cavern. Haruki Murakami

Science is still only a candle glimmering in a great pitch-dark cavern. Mario Vargas Llosa

Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience; and casts light into the cavern through which he worked his cause up to the cheerful day. Margaret Fuller

The gorilla-slayer moved out into the glade. Massive, terrible, he was the personification of the primitive, the Stone Age. His mouth yawned in a red cavern of a grin; he bore himself with the haughty arrogance of savage might. Robert E. Howard

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