black pit

Another message included a photo of a 1½-year-old black pit bull, but described a 7-year-old Siberian husky.

Shadow, a black pit bull mix, sat in the Los Angeles city shelter of L.A.

Lien, whose scenic designs for shows like “Great Comet” and “An Octoroon” are typically characterized by surprising use of three-dimensional space, was struck by the show’s references to “the great black pit, the hole in the ground, the vermin — this kind of characterization of that underclass population of Victorian London as being like sewer rats, living underground.”

In Murton, about six miles from Sunderland, a big, black pit wheel stands as a memorial to the village's former colliery.

Seattle's Space Needle would also comfortably fit in the black pit, as would six Christ the Redeemer statues from Brazil stacked head-to-head, giant arms outstretched.