Careful Words

pit (n.)

pit (v.)

pit (adj.)

There still remains to mortify a wit

The many-headed monster of the pit.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace. Epistle i. Book ii. Line 304.

  Food for powder, food for powder; they 'll fill a pit as well as better.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): King Henry IV. Part I. Act iv. 2.

  Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein.

Old Testament: Proverbs xxvi. 27.