abysm

• He recollected only two lines She makes all the rest seem a shoal of poor fish So we cast our ballot for Dorothy Gish Peering again into the dark backward and abysm, it seems that the two rejuvenated gossips trundled up on Lexington Avenue to Alfred Goldsmith's cheerful bookshop. —  Pipefuls
• Let, then, the young student of infinity amp;c amp;c FLIGHT THE FIFTH Inarched within the boundless empyrean of thought, starry with wonder, and constellate with investigation; at one time obfuscated in the abysm-born vapours of doubt; at another, radiant with the sun-fires of faith made perfect by fruition; it can amaze no considerative fraction of humanity, that the explorer of the indefinite, the searcher into the not-to-be-defined, should, at dreary intervals, invent dim, plastic riddles of his own identity, and hesitate at the awful shrine of that dread interrogatory alternative--reality, or dream? —  Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, Complete
• They came thitherward and saw that the enclosure of the castle was fallen down into an abysm, so that none might approach it on that side, but it had a right fair gateway and a door tall and wide, whereby they entered. —  The Cornwall Coast
• The sylph-like ease with which the Countess floated over this foul abysm was miraculous. —  Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
• The dust of churches is not like the dust of houses; it reminds one of the tomb, it is composed of ashes The flooring of these colossal garrets has crevices in it through which one can look down into the abysm, the church, below. —  The Memoirs of Victor Hugo

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