"they dug a pit to bury the body"
"you should remove the stones from prunes before cooking"
"Hurl'd headlong...To bottomless perdition, there to dwell" "a demon from the depths of the pit" "Hell is paved with good intentions"
"a British term for `quarry' is `stone pit'"
"let them match their best athletes against ours" "pit a chess player against the Russian champion" "He plays his two children off against each other"
"The skin disease scarred his face permanently"
"pit plums and cherries"