His foot slipped on the edge of the yawning pit.

Congratulations', Stefan thought, feeling the sudden yawning pit in his stomach.

But with Alan there was the dreadful yawning pit of caring in the way.

I came out, finally, on an earthen shelf above a yawning pit.

Why not just a huge yawning pit of a mouth, red, with teeth, that every once in a while bellows, "Feed me money!"

Here was a yawning pit upon whose floor the armies of Russia could camp, and have room to spare.

He collided with a hanging stone, lost his balance and fell on the edge of a yawning pit.

Only the fact that he'd already suspected as much saved him from the black, yawning pit of complete insanity.

Below, he saw the yawning pit of an old elevator shaft, clear to the basement, three floors down.

Here was a post, with manacles attached; there a yawning pit in the floor.