The shaft sank into the ground far beneath the building, then rose from it again.
The colliery had two shafts, one for ventilation, sunk to the Rams mine at 600 feet.
Rapidly the shaft sank as if cutting a vast green cheese.
Rugar's first shaft had sunk dead on center into the painted target.
No 3 shaft was 14 feet 6 inches in diameter and sunk to 330 yards.
Instead she kept imagining that hot, hard shaft sinking into her body.
The whole shaft thus gradually sank under its own weight, slicing through the soft ground rather like an enormous pastry cutter.
The shaft sank into the young man's thigh, catching him like a fish.
A second shaft sank into the neck of a knight.
It was pitiful to see the first shaft of my insinuation slowly sink into him.