Long Narrow Passages
- Elevator shaft
- Ventilation shaft, vertical passages used in mines and tunnels to move fresh air underground, and to remove stale air
- Shaft (civil engineering), an underground vertical or inclined passageway
- Pitch (ascent/descent), a significant underground vertical space in caving terminology
- Shaft mining, refers to the method of excavating a vertical or near-vertical tunnel from the top down, where there is initially no access to the bottom
- Shafting, illicit travelling through shafts
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Famous quotes containing the words long, narrow and/or passages:
“Ask us, ask us whether with the worldless rose
Our hearts shall fail us; come demanding
Whether there shall be lofty or long standing
When the bronze annals of the oak-tree close.”
—Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)
“On this narrow planet, we have only the choice between two unknown worlds. One of them tempts us—ah! what a dream, to live in that!—the other stifles us at the first breath.”
—Colette [Sidonie Gabrielle Colette] (1873–1954)
“However global I strove to become in my thinking over the past twenty years, my sons kept me rooted to an utterly pedestrian view, intimately involved with the most inspiring and fractious passages in human development. However unconsciously by now, motherhood informs every thought I have, influencing everything I do. More than any other part of my life, being a mother taught me what it means to be human.”
—Mary Kay Blakely (20th century)