wider-gaping

Updated: May 5, 2025

Instead of these, deeper dells, more headlong torrents, and wider-gaping rifts, were incessantly encountered. To return was as hopeless as to proceed. I consoled myself with thinking that the survey which my informant had made of the hill-side might prove inaccurate, and that, in spite of her predictions, the heights might be reached by other means than by those pointed out by her.

Charles Brockden Brown - Edgar Huntly : or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker