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Meanings of deep pit in English

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Usage of deep pit in English
1
In the deep pit below, the sinful ones dance in torturing flames.
American Indian Stories
2
The pool sank, leaving a deep pit into which the monster disappeared.
Adventures in Southern Seas: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century
3
So the girl went with him to the side of the deep pit.
The Book of Were-Wolves
4
A fine line, like a wire suspended over a deep pit.
Knife of dreams
5
I've buried envy in a deep pit and covered it with quick lime.
Evening Round-Up / More Good Stuff Like Pep
6
Advancing more boldly, he found himself near the edge of a deep pit.
The Last of the Chiefs: A Story of the Great Sioux War
7
There was a deep pit where one eye used to be.
Red Planet Blues
8
His wife was a harlot whose heart was a deep pit.
The Scapegoat
9
Under the stone there was a pit, a dark, deep pit.
Folk Tales from the Russian
10
Hekabe pointed at the bottom of the deep pit they'd excavated.
Envoy
11
Good instruction shall give grace: in the way of scorners is a deep pit.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Old Testament — Part 2
12
At the bottom of the deep pit the sand coarsened, gave place to gravel.
Desert Gold
13
It was almost terrible to her, and the silence was like a deep pit.
The Trespasser
14
So the Fox led the Ass into a deep pit.
The Aesop for Children / With pictures by Milo Winter
15
You know-comparingthe fight against Earth's gravity to climbing out of a deep pit.'
The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke
16
It is, in fact, a deep pit, bounded on all sides by precipitous rocks.
Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands
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United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common