Careful Words

cave (n.)

cave (v.)

cave (adj.)

  David therefore departed thence and escaped to the cave Adullam.

Old Testament: 1 Samuel xxii. 1.

That darksome cave they enter, where they find

That cursed man, low sitting on the ground,

Musing full sadly in his sullein mind.

Edmund Spenser (1553-1599): Faerie Queene. Book i. Canto ix. St. 35.

The sun to me is dark

And silent as the moon,

When she deserts the night

Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.

John Milton (1608-1674): Samson Agonistes. Line 86.