gulf

He then surveyed / Hell and the gulf between.

Witch's mummy, maw and gulf / Of the ravined salt sea shark,

[T]here is no such mine, / None; but a gulf of ruin, swallowing gold, not making.

the Gulf of Mexico    the Persian Gulf

Between us and you there is a great gulf fixed.

England were graphically illustrating the huge gulf in class between the sides and it was no surprise when Lampard added the second just before the half hour. Steven Gerrard found his Liverpool team-mate Glen Johnson and Lampard arrived in the area with perfect timing to glide a header beyond Namasco.

Some ten or fifteen men just on the line, not enough to be plucked or good enough to be placed, are put into the "gulf," as it is popularly called (the Examiners' phrase is "Degrees allowed"), and have their degrees given to them but are not printed in the calendar, nor were they at this time allowed to try for the Classical Tripos.