The cavernous pits and gorges scattered throughout the hills above this port city hold dark secrets from the twilight days of World War II, secrets that still disturb Italy and its Balkan neighbors.

He was tall, gaunt and angular, his skin the colour of a nicotine-stained finger and his eyes deeply sunk into cavernous black pits.

The cavernous pit, which dips and curves like a smooth wooden salad bowl, is a shocking yet unusually beautiful sight.

Sometimes I feel that I'm standing with all my friends around a cavernous pit, and the edges of it are constantly crumbling away.

The exhibition sponsored by the Sculpture Center at Roosevelt Island is consigned to a cavernous, covered concrete pit called the Motorgate Parking Complex.

He landed in a cavernous pit.

I didn't mind dying, but this cavernous fire-blackened pit was an ugly place to do it.

Little Amy surprises Aden and pushes him into the cavernous pit of cow excrement.

His face was sinking in on itself, cheeks hollow and eyes cavernous pits so deep you couldn't see any spark of life in them.

The cesspool was located only when it buckled one evening during the recent rains, leaving a cavernous pit, overhung with grass and tree roots, next to the swing set in their backyard.