| 1. | It was the chasm which he was afraid to peep into. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |
| 2. | A chasm opens with a noiseless yawn. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 3. | The bridge was a plank, and it crossed a chasm about four feet wide and two deep. - from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens |
| 4. | I looked at the sky it was pure a kindly star twinkled just above the chasm ridge. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 5. | That chasm was life itself, the bridge that artificial life in which Alexey Alexandrovitch had lived. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |
| 6. | They had concealed a natural chasm which led under the rock. - from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Complete by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) |
| 7. | A few yards from the end the soil was all ploughed up into a patch of mud, and the branches and ferns which fringed the chasm were torn and bedraggled. - from Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 8. | For many seconds I hearkened to its reverberations as it dashed against the sides of the chasm in its descent at length there was a sullen plunge into water, succeeded by loud echoes. - from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe |
| 9. | Now he experienced a feeling akin to that of a man who, while calmly crossing a precipice by a bridge, should suddenly discover that the bridge is broken, and that there is a chasm below. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |
| 10. | I go hunting polar furs and the seal, leaping chasms with. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 11. | The sun sank lower in the heavens we passed the river Drance and observed its path through the chasms of the higher and the glens of the lower hills. - from Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley |
| 12. | He said that his soul went with a great company to a place, in which there were two chasms near together in the earth beneath, and two corresponding chasms in the heaven above. - from The Republic by Plato |