Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.    From LearnThat.org.  [Bertrand Russell]

pit plums and cherries.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

A demon from the depths of the pit.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

They dug a pit to bury the body.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

A British term for `quarry' is `stone pit'.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

The Polunsky dungeon is what I call the pit of hopelessness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-09-01] Reference

Across from the pit is a stone fire ring in the shape of a pentagram.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Satanic Perspective on the USA’s Troubling Times | Disinformation] Reference

I had never been able to go into what they call the pit before, where the footprints of the towers were.    From Wordnik.com.  [Remembering The Woman He Loved And Lost] Reference

The floor had gone clean away, down into what we called the pit, leaving me alone on 18in of floor that had held.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

Wikipedia includes the following breeds as included in the term pit bull: "American pit.    From Wordnik.com.  [SouthCoastToday.com Latest Headlines] Reference

And when I used the word pit bull, I meant tenacious.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 15, 2007] Reference

Its pit is built and finished, ready for the machinery.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hydro-Electric Power Question] Reference

Tell us, for example, how a mosh pit is like an ecosystem.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punk Rock Professor Talks Anarchy And Evolution] Reference

If we say yes, can we ever again pit them against each other?.    From Wordnik.com.  [All Our Children « Happy Healthy Hip Parenting] Reference

But, while surviving the pit is easy, getting out is another story.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing] Reference

Hang hem up by their skin and roast them over an open pit is more like it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama asks Wall Street to back reform] Reference

He waits until the pit is cold and then goes in and eats the charred pieces.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Dog Ate the _________?] Reference

Fire pit is in place and the concrete for the pool is getting shot on Friday.    From Wordnik.com.  [Keeping Your Fertility Options Open] Reference

I also do not believe that throwing money into a bottomless pit is the answer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sound Politics: Eliminating accountability ... for the children!] Reference

We have a 5,000 acre campus and when I used the word pit bull I meant tenacious.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 15, 2007] Reference

TV sports commonly station reporters along sidelines, in pit road or on golf fairways.    From Wordnik.com.  [ESPN baseball announcing team goes separate ways] Reference

The wheel pit is 165 feet deep, 18 feet wide inside of bricklining, and 570 feet-long.    From Wordnik.com.  [Niagara's Power: Past, Present, Prospective] Reference

While pit is always warm, yet its climate is so perfect that it benefits almost any sufferer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Six Months in Mexico] Reference

Five chambers for auxiliary machinery were excavated in eastside of the wheel pit is the work progressed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Niagara's Power: Past, Present, Prospective] Reference

She called the pit bull's chocolate-color "very unique," before saying Mala is "just a sweet, beautiful dog.".    From Wordnik.com.  [TheSunNews.com: Local] Reference

The pit is primarily here the grave (Isa 38: 17), but the spiritual pit is mainly shadowed forth (Zec 9: 11).    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference

Of course, having the support of Mr. Runnicles and the fine SF Opera orchestra in the pit is no small matter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-10-01] Reference

My Dobermans names are Rebel, Dixie, Diamond, Baby Girl, Maggie May, and my old half lab half pit is named Harley.    From Wordnik.com.  [What are some good dog names. I;m thinking about naming mine Remington.] Reference

A foam pit is apparently a vinyl dance floor with 2 and 1/2 foot inflateable sides that is filled with a bubble foam liquid.    From Wordnik.com.  [Insurance Defense] Reference

You are partially right in that a seepage pit is probably the only thing that will come close to working in a small lot here.    From Wordnik.com.  [Toilet Paper] Reference

And in one of my favorite projects, the country's largest garbage pit is being transformed into Israel's largest metropolitan park.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kathy Kemper: A Q&A With Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren] Reference

Exactly right James – the rampup of “donations” into an endless pit, is almost exactly the same as the war-spending increases.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Highway Robber State « Antiwar.com Blog] Reference

As the plot goes, Chelios is again pit against the clock, chasing down a mobster, not for an antidote this time, but for his own heart.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crank 2 Cranks Up the Crazy with Jason Statham's Head « FirstShowing.net] Reference

That the pit is preferable over a dysfunctional flush toilet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wanderlustress:] Reference

The "pit" in "pit bull" refers to a fighting pit, which is where many of the dogs ended up.    From Wordnik.com.  [SFGate: Top News Stories] Reference

The oven used in Chinese roasting looks very much like a modern American barbecue "pit" - a metal box with heat at the bottom.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2004-07-01] Reference

Since last year, the pit has been a source of a new revenue.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hindu - Front Page] Reference

The pit was a mist of lilac, which shifted and ever shifted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nights in London] Reference

The dog is described as a pit bull with brown, black and white coloring.    From Wordnik.com.  [SacBee -- Latest News] Reference

In the pit was a quantity of rosin sufficient to fill a thousand barrels.    From Wordnik.com.  [Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time] Reference

They're called the pit -- the only part of a marching band that stays put on the field.    From Wordnik.com.  [CAROLINAS' NEWS CONNECTION] Reference

At this Greeley had a distinct sensation of pain in the region known as the pit of his stomach.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Son of the Hills] Reference

Scientists have known for decades that some snakes use specialized holes called pit organs to "see" the heat radiating from prey.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest Science News Features, Blog Entries, Column Entries, Issues, Articles and Book Reviews] Reference