catacombs

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I think the "bottomless pit" in the catacombs is a sewer system.

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  • Compared to these catacombs, a walk through a graveyard at midnight was no more awesome than a stroll through a town park Doc Savage went forward without flinching or shivering. —  008 - The Sargasso Ogre
  • He saw that the catacombs were a trackless labyrinth. —  008 - The Sargasso Ogre
  • I think the "bottomless pit" in the catacombs is a sewer system. —  The Unofficial GuildWars Site
  • We saw the catacombs, which is basically miles of nothing but skulls and remains several feet under the ground. —  United States Chess Federation
  • The passage from one to the other had been most ingeniously disguised by the fossores_, as those who dug the catacombs were called. —  Pagan and Christian Rome
 

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