Small caves

Usage examples of grottoes.

In one of the grottoes they found a considerable amount of tiny triangular crystals, partially submerged in the water that had dripped down off the rocky vault.

It would take weeks, even under the best circumstances, to comb all the nooks and crannies, grottoes and caves.

That left only the grottoes, caves and hollows in the rocks—he counted several from where he was standing.

High rock shelves with vertical faces, that presented extraordinary difficulties for the climber, hid the caves' interiors from sight, and he decided to begin by examining the grottoes, one after the other.

Rohan made a thorough search in two smaller and four larger grottoes, one after the other, which he could enter fairly easily since he needed only to climb over a few large, slanting rock shelves.

Besides, he carried only a small flashlight which provided relatively weak illumination and was especially powerless inside the more spacious grottoes with their tall, vaulted ceilings and innumerable galleries.

If they ever did, their grottoes are all gone, and I suppose we ought to wonder at the peculiar marvel of the preservation of these I speak of When the Virgin fled from Herod's wrath, she hid in a grotto in Bethlehem, and the same is there to this day.

The central core alone was over twenty feet tall—a rugged mountain of travertine marble riddled with caves and grottoes through which the water churned.

And had he not ascended miraculously into a pillar of fire, he would now be buried in the Vatican Grottoes along with the other Popes.

The central core alone was over twenty feet tall-a rugged mountain of travertine marble riddled with caves and grottoes through which the water churned.

The walls and supports were undecorated, much more mechanical than the grottoes and forests of the other decks.

Though he still had a few peripheral contacts in the port-of-entry grottoes and the resource-processing docks, all the rebels C'tair knew, all the black marketeers he'd dealt with, had been slaughtered.

The hollowed-out grottoes there are big enough to accommodate warehouse frigates, and the tunnels intersect with the underground cities.

In the grottoes beneath him, under a kilometer of rock, the air would be warm and thick, redolent of chemicals and a crowded populace.