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"Cavernous," says my bloke, taking in the cathedral-like ceiling of an open-plan timbered expanse.
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Cavernous drums open proceedings on Suzanne And I, then ominous, twanging guitar lines ring out before Calvi steps up to the microphone.
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Cavernous and rambling, possessed of uninterrupted views of the Coney Island parachute jump, and with what my cousin still calls "ripply walls" (faux stucco), the place had sat unoccupied for a few years except for all of my grandparents' furniture, my grandmother's clothes, bags of long-forgotten photographs from the Old Country taken right before Hitler marched into Poland, and a jar of two year old gefilte fish sitting in the (thankfully still running) refrigerator.
Elissa Altman: Why Brooklyn Needs to Be Careful Elissa Altman 2010
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Cavernous, with high ceilings and bare walls, the area looked like an industrial site.
Star Trek: Myriad Universes: Shattered Light David R. George III 2010
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Cavernous and rambling, possessed of uninterrupted views of the Coney Island parachute jump, and with what my cousin still calls "ripply walls" (faux stucco), the place had sat unoccupied for a few years except for all of my grandparents' furniture, my grandmother's clothes, bags of long-forgotten photographs from the Old Country taken right before Hitler marched into Poland, and a jar of two year old gefilte fish sitting in the (thankfully still running) refrigerator.
Elissa Altman: Why Brooklyn Needs to Be Careful Elissa Altman 2010
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Setting: Cavernous, elegant, still a little cruise-shippy
Ed Levine: The Four-Star Italian We've Been Waiting For 2009
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Cavernous and centrally located, the mess hall was designed to feed nearly three hundred hungry sailors three hot meals a day.
The Attack on the Liberty James Scott 2009
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Cavernous rows of Stalinist-style apartment houses line the 12-lane Moscow-style boulevards.
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Cavernous castles are nice, but a vampire needs his coffin.
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Cavernous lobby done in tawny colors, touches of royal blue, palm trees in pots, and the smell of air-conditioning.
Hunter,Healer[SequeltoTheSociety] Saintcrow, Lilith 2005
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