A man was bound to know himself better than that, and if he chose to grow gray crunching bones in a cavern, he had no business to be luring a girl into his companionship.
Four avenues opened out of the small cavern which the great rock stood in.
In one place they found a spacious cavern, from whose ceiling depended a multitude of shining stalactites of the length and circumference of a man's leg; they walked all about it, wondering and admiring, and presently left it by one of the numerous passages that opened into it.
All the news that could be gained was that remotenesses of the cavern were being ransacked that had never been visited before; that every corner and crevice was going to be thoroughly searched; that wherever one wandered through the maze of passages, lights were to be seen flitting hither and thither in the distance, and shoutings and pistol-shots sent their hollow reverberations to the ear down the sombre aisles.
" One of the few lots to sell significantly above its estimate, at Sotheby's, was a 1780 landscape by Joseph Wright of Derby showing a cavern in the Gulf of Salerno with the figure of Julia, the banished daughter of Emperor Augustus.
But luckily for me the fancy took me to stand once more beside the river where it plunged out of sight in the depths of the cavern, and as I did so an idea struck me.
Then the husband, bidding farewell to all his friends, stretched himself upon another bier, upon which were laid seven little loaves of bread and a pitcher of water, and he also was let down-down-down to the depths of the horrible cavern, and then a stone was laid over the opening, and the melancholy company wended its way back to the city.
He took poor Peter by the hand, and led him between some cliffs to a great cavern.
The he went inside, and the whole mountain was a cavern full of silver andgold, and behind lay great piles of pearls and sparkling jewels, heaped up like corn.
When the smoke had circled about the cavern, suddenly a little black dwarf stood before him, and said, "Lord, what are your commands?
When the sun rose, and Hans woke up, he was lying in a deep cavern.
The giant said, "If thou art such a valiant fellow, come with me into our cavern and spend the night with us.
"It will be worse when my sons come home," replied the woman; "you are now in the cavern of the Winds, and my sons are the four Winds of heaven: can you understand that?
