Its deep shaft was almost completely filled in, for during the past three hundred years it had served as the town dump.

Another deep wide-mouthed shaft is being carved out a few miles to the north.

His relatives were struck in the head and thrown into the deep shaft still alive.

A person at the bottom of a deep shaft that goes straight down from the Earth's surface is forced to look directly upward.

I was tumbling down a deep shaft, reaching, trying to grab on to something.

For, opening at his feet, was a deep shaft.

If we could find a window it would help, but I fear that the light comes only down deep shafts.

He paused now at a window that faced on to a deep vertical shaft.

They dug deep shafts down through the vegetation into the rock.

It said that a deep shaft connecting to the city's third water tunnel might be built three blocks south of the Century.