It will be seen that the specus or channel is 60 centimeters (or nearly 2 ft.) wide, and 1m. 57c.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 520, December 19, 1885] Reference

“Horrendum incultumque specus.” and the European merchants, when they come up here are glad to get away as soon as possible.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels in Morocco] Reference

Then I perceived very soon, that the authors who had worked upon this matter took the coloured rays upon the specus out of the prism; but none of them minded how they could get in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe] Reference

The specus or channel itself was, of course, constructed of masonry, generally of blocks of stone cemented together, and it was frequently, though not, it would appear always, lined with cement inside.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 520, December 19, 1885] Reference

It consists of a row of large arches crossing the valley over which the water had to be carried, surmounted by a series of smaller arches, and these again by a series of still smaller ones, carrying the specus of the aqueduct.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 520, December 19, 1885] Reference

Quare age, huc aditum ferens, perge linquere Thespiae rupis Aonios specus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Iunia weds with Manlius] Reference

Nam qui Tartareum in specus.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II] Reference

Nam qui Tartareum in specus 55.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy] Reference

Quæ in nemora aut quos agor in specus.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II] Reference

Aequorei laticis, specus imâ rupe cavatur.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 1] Reference