abyss

• The highest peak of the Himalayas might be put into that abyss, and there would be hundreds of feet between it and the surface. —  Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John
• Sin is an abyss, a mystery, how deep only they know who have fought against it; but O love! —  Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John
• All the more terrible are the seven spirits of the abyss, the MASKIM, of whom it is said that, although their seat is in the depths of the earth, yet their voice resounds on the heights also: they reside at will in the immensity of space, "not enjoying a good name either in heaven or on earth." —  Chaldea From the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria
• I see nothing but a broken mass of clouds drifting down, and surging o'er the top of yonder craggy peak o'erhanging the abyss, which is turning crimson in the setting sun PANCRATIUS. —  The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
• I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss, and, in their struggles to be truly free, in their triumphs and defeats, through long, long years to come, I see the evil of this time and, of the previous time of which this is the natural birth, gradually making expiation for itself and wearing out I see the lives for which I lay down my life, peaceful, useful, prosperous and happy, in that England which I shall see no more. —  The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VI (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland IV

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