The sawpit, to prevent accidents to cattle, was roughly covered over with slabs of wood, which practically roofed it in, and of course darkened the interior.
"Wild Life in a Southern County"
Richard Jefferies
The sawpit, too, was close to a lane used a good deal, though sheltered by a thick hedge from the observation of those who passed.
"Wild Life in a Southern County"
Richard Jefferies
And while I thought of my own return, and childish attempt to hide myself from sorrow in the sawpit, and the agony of my mother's tears, it did not fail to strike me as a thing of omen, that the selfsame day should be, both to my darling and myself, the blackest and most miserable of all youthful days.
"Lorna Doone, A Romance of Exmoor"
R. D. Blackmore