Olive leftovers

Usage examples of pits.

Climbing higher up the glassy slope, they passed through a belt of cold volcanic pits and cones, where, ages before, the molten rock had bubbled like mush and cooled in scabrous pockmarks.

These pits were about ten feet in diameter, and some ten feet where they were not filled with loose earth.

Here the plain stretched on, but the advancing line of pits came to an end.

Guards scurried frenziedly into the pits where Monk and Ham and Pat were shackled.

But the next time red light rippled out, the stone had vanished -- and Doc Savage, under cover of the thorny bush, was creeping toward the line of pits with the wedge-pointed pick in his hand.

They emitted cries and crowded into the nearest of honeycomb pits in an effort to escape.

The wall of earth between the pits was not wide enough to permit quick, mass acti on.

Then he himself leaped, caught the edge of the pit with one deft arm, drew himself up, and ran across the narrow walls of earth between the honeycomb pits, to join his aids.

Doc's men, scattering over the entire front, forced the lizard-collared men into the pits to unlock the diggers.

The only escape from the plateau of the honeycomb pits was by the sea.

With a new vent blown out for the lava, the plain of the pits will be covered with molten lava.

That Devil's Honeycomb for which you have so long looked, digging your pits -- you would hardly care to have it buried under a hundred feet of lava.

He followed such runways as appeared to terminate in the pits or other chambers of the inhabitants of the city, and these he explored, usually from the safety of a burrow's mouth, until satisfied that what he sought was not there.

And you would know more, I can prove my right to be heard and to be believed if I may have word with the Princess Haja of Gathol, whose son is my fellow prisoner in the pits of O-Tar, his father.

From it a corridor leads to the pits of the palace, where there are storerooms containing food and drink.