stone pit

We were in the bottom of a narrow stone pit.

The "cell" was actually nothing more than a grate-covered stone pit.

A large stone pit sat in the center.

It was dark inside the building; there was only a small fire burning in a stone pit.

For financial reasons and due to the lack of a nearby stone pit, brick was chosen as building material.

Roza takes a job in the stone pit, and they pool their pennies.

It comprised a circular stone pit in the floor, a low curbing.

Now he works in a stone pit carting rocks to a railroad depot.

The dimness was cosmetic; I couldn't see the actual mines, which are open stone pits.

Do you know, Head Nodder, even this stone pit looks beautiful and inviting now?

As owner of a stone pit he made a fortune with contracts from the time the Danube was regulated.

In the general area of the stone pit, a hazy hint of a glow appeared.

A score of slaves were unloading logs from three carts and piling them up in the stone pit.

Their broadminded father became the director of a complex of nearby stone pits and brickworks.

Typical are large, natural enclosures, which are embedded in a landscape of forests and stone pits.

Those stone pits were scarcely ever noticed, because they were covered with hinged gratings.

The trucks roared out from the horseshoe stone pit, ripping through the brushwood camouflage.

Stone Pits Farm in the parish is named after a quarry that supplied limestone for building.

These deep caverns have complex, carved water channels for directing rain water into huge, underground stone pits.

Rapidly, Harry opened the message, read the coded lines, and learned of his chief's excursion to the ruins and the hidden stone pit.

The zoo has Asiatic lions and Siberian tigers, which live in former stone pits.

The fire in the stone pit crackled and roared and eventually subsided into a lake of shimmering coals.

Walking like wooden articulations of his will, his captives followed him dumbly out of the stone pit.

I felt horribly vulnerable, trapped there at the bottom of a sloping stone pit, knowing I couldn't be far from an alien hunter.

Haelig persuaded the Central Railroad of New Jersey to lay a spur to the stone pit.