Quick, guardsmen, to the pits with the black maniac who wishes to throw his life away for a poor joke upon your ruler!"
Day after day was the thing repeated, until I was on the verge of madness; and then, as I had done in the pits of the Warhoons, I took a new, firm hold upon my reason and forced it back into the channels of sanity.
Into the silence and darkness of
the pits you will enter upon your reflection this night with the knowledge that should you fail within a reasonable time to agree to the alternative which has been offered you, never shall you emerge from the darkness and the silence again.
Into this he bore the girl and down a long, narrow corridor and winding runways that led to lower levels until they came to
the pits of the palace of O-Tar.
Often they ceased their labors to squat, resting and gossiping, with much laughter, at the edge of
the pit they were digging.
He also felt along the sides of
the pit with his hands to see if it were possible to get out of it without help, but he found they were quite smooth and afforded no hold anywhere, at which he was greatly distressed, especially when he heard how pathetically and dolefully Dapple was bemoaning himself, and no wonder he complained, nor was it from ill-temper, for in truth he was not in a very good case.
He remained standing at the edge of
the pit that the Thing had made for itself, staring at its strange appearance, astonished chiefly at its unusual shape and colour, and dimly perceiving even then some evidence of design in its arrival.
She shuddered to approach
the pit; but she crept towards it on her hands and knees, and called to him as loud as she could call.
Beyond that post a fresh pit had been dug in the ground, and near the post and
the pit a large crowd stood in a semicircle.
A mighty beast it was that glared up at the ape-man--large, powerful and young, with a huge black mane and a coat so much darker than any Tarzan ever had seen that in the depths of
the pit it looked almost black--a black lion!
A more authentic tradition, aided by the geography of the country, places
the pit in Dothan, some two days' journey from here.
The Panther, however, when he had recruited his feeble strength, freed himself with a sudden bound from
the pit, and hastened to his den with rapid steps.
the pits - any place of pain and turmoil; "the hell of battle"; "the inferno of the engine room"; "when you're alone Christmas is the pits";