a yawning chasm; the shark's yawning jaws

First of all, and probably greatest of all in view of most present-day writers, they were unhyphenated! This is indeed wonderful! And again, most wonderful! Unhyphenated! So interesting a fact as this, and one so eminently desirable, invites most critical investigation, for the very breath of suggestion insinuates at once that hyphenism and Americanism are by the very nature of things contradictory, and that hyphenism must needs be on a par with, if not exactly the same as, treason. We are therefore very much interested in the new fact that Pennsylvania's glory lies in the giving of unhyphenated Americans to the new nation born of the travails of the Revolution.

The game was pass-dice. A young stranger held the dice, and had already won four times […] .

His nerves could no longer handle the worry.