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  • It looked to be about two miles to the point where it curved at the chasm's end and swept round and downward, to be lost in a fissure in the cliff.

    In The Time Of Light dj barber 2010

  • The sentry chased the sunrise down the chasm's walls, jumping lightly into the air every few steps, spreading diaphanous membranes and gliding softly to a next landing, there to run three or four landbound steps and jump and glide again.

    Genellan- Planetfall Gier, Scott 2005

  • Certain notes caused a bit of one dancing stream or another to impact on the already immensely elaborate creation that lined the arch, walls, and floor of the chasm's terminus.

    Sliding Scales Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2004

  • It was as if someone had taken a shipload of sapphires, warped them into a thousand new shapes, combined the results with a load of transparent glue, and flung them all in the direction of the chasm's end, hoping some of it would stick.

    Sliding Scales Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2004

  • Making steady progress, they soon found themselves enveloped in the chasm's darkened depths, seeing the sun but rarely.

    Kingdoms of Light Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2001

  • From here the far cliffs were almost a mile away, but Dodd could just see a group of horsemen clustered at the chasm's edge.

    Sharpe's Fortress Cornwell, Bernard 1999

  • A wall of flame, blue and red, wavered out of the chasm's depths, growing and fountaining with each instant, and the fallen trees vaporized into ashes as the almost living fire marched down toward the toppled gray-stone towers of Vult and up toward Anna.

    The Soprano Sorceress Modesitt, L. E. 1997

  • We managed to fly across it, but the chasm's pretty wide and Slith said that flying wouldn't work, carrying dragon eggs, not to mention the rest of the treasure, which he said you wanted to go in the rail cars.

    The Doom Brigade Weis, Margaret 1996

  • We managed to fly across it, but the chasm's pretty wide and Slith said that flying wouldn't work, carrying dragon eggs, not to mention the rest of the treasure, which he said you wanted to go in the rail cars.

    The Doom Brigade Weis, Margaret 1996

  • We managed to fly across it, but the chasm's pretty wide and Slith said that flying wouldn't work, carrying dragon eggs, not to mention the rest of the treasure, which he said you wanted to go in the rail cars.

    The Doom Brigade Weis, Margaret 1996

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