Asterin's shout echoed, but Manon was falling, plunging the forty feet right into the stone pit.

Over there a stone pit; faces grown like the faces of beasts, a picked-up rabble of assassins.

As the beast inside roared with hunger, the walls around him became a stone pit slick with scum.

The one room was dimly lit by a small fire crackling in the stone pit set into the right sod-and-timber wall.

Indeed, behind the open jaws, where the throat would open up was now a dark stone pit set with iron rungs.

I clattered down the bare metal steps into the great sunken stone pit and headed for the long, wooden bar at the far end.

For a minute Dunsey thought that old Marner might be dead, fallen over into the stone pits.