Word: caving
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...sound; for although there is a wealth of allusions, there is little in the elasical literature of antiquity that bears importantly upon the subject. The Hebrew Scriptures abound in these allusiouns. Abraham paid the children of Heth four hundred shekels of silver of the cave of Machpelah. Job says, "Surely there is a vein for silver; the earth hath dust of gold." In the book of Daniel there is an account of the great image which Nebuchadnezzar set up on the plains of Dura, three score cubits in height and six cubits in breadth. Then, too, there is the picture...
...staging of the opera was splendid; 'Devil's Rock at the Cave Entrance' was as well built, and as aptly realistic as any piece of scenery ever set in place behind the lights of that house; which is saying a good deal. And the calibre of the company's exhibition was no less remarkable than the fact of their adaptability to continual renewals of repertoire. The genuine vigor with which the Castle Square company carries its kaleidoscopic work is certainly curious to note. And the voices and pantomime of the principals seem, beyond understanding, to improve under each week...
...token secretly understood between them that the Colleen is to disappear. The glove is sent by a misunderstanding and Donny Mann acts. Eily is led by him to enter his boat under the pretense that her husband has sent for her. He rows her to a solitary cave, which chances to be the secret haunt of Myles. The latter shoots Donny Mann, whom he mistakes for another in the dim light, and saves the Colleen Bawn by a "header" into the water. Cregan is arrested for murder on confession of Donny Mann, who is wounded, but not dead...
...token secretly understood between them that the Colleen is to disappear. The glove is sent by a misunderstanding and Donny Mann acts. Eily is led by him to enter his boat under the pretense that her husband has sent for her. He rows her to a solitary cave, which chances to be the secret haunt of Myles. The latter shoots Donny Mann, whom he mistakes for another in the dim light, and saves the Colleen Bawn by a "header" into the water. Cregan is arrested for murder on confession of Donny Mann, who is wounded, but not dead...
...interrupted in his search around the cave by the pirates who burst in and take him prisoner. He explains to his captors what a magnificent inventive brain he has, and describes his chief invention, in what is perhaps the liveliest song of the piece, "The flying machine song...