Sentence examples for great cave from inspiring English sources

The main cave (Cave 1, or the Great Cave) was a Hindu place of worship until Portuguese rule began in 1534, after which the caves suffered severe damage.

The earliest of the great cave painters, working at Chauvet in southern France, 32,000 years ago, was obsessed with rhinoceroses.

One shortcoming of this beach is that Homer describes a great cave nearby with two entrances, and there is none now.

Along with the great cave paintings of Chauvet, Altamira and Lascaux, the figures and sculptures that will be displayed at Ice Age Art reveal astonishing sophistication.

In a letter to a friend, she wrote of the experience: "Already one of the largest logs is taking shape – a great cave is appearing and I have tunnelled right through the 48 inches and daylight gleams within it.

All this seems to have happened, the record suggests, in a memorably short amount of time, about fifty thousand or so years ago, just before the great cave art of Chauvet and Lascaux was created, when the life of symbols became the life of man.

A persuasive account of the origins and purpose of the great cave-paintings of western Europe.

Maddy and I both awarded it eights for having such great caves and archways to explore.

Just east of Porthcurno, sign-posted Treen This is the real Land's End: wild and rugged with great caves.

Here's our pick of 10 great caves across the city, plus a tip on which wine to order from each caviste.

It ranks with the greatest cave paintings of ice-age France as a miracle of observation.