noun
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underground
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Squeeze along on your hands and knees, then wriggle flat on your stomach, and you may reach an underground cavern .
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Two hundred code writers, broken down into teams, entered the project as if it were some underground cavern .
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They would require extensive tunnelling through limestone under the Judean Hills where there was a danger of underground caverns or water.
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Evidence showed that almost twice as much gas had been loaded into the underground cavern , resulting in the blast.
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These are great vaulted underground caverns , the roof supported by columns which display a wide variety of capital design.
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A few that remain protrude from the side and top, synthetic stalactites in a cavern of the sea.
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Even access is not encouraged, and the tracks leading to the caverns are also closed.
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It was too soon; she was still in the cavern .
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Jewel-tipped stalactites hung from the cavern roof, aglow like many little lamps.
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The bats leave the caverns at sunset each day to feed on night-flying insects.
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The deepest is Lechuguilla, an undeveloped cavern that reaches 1, 567 feet into the Earth.
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The Environmental Protection Agency has authorised the storage of only 8,500 drums in the cavern over a five year test period.
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We swam in the chilly river of the Titou Gorge where it winds through caverns underground.