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  • The word gouffre is sometimes translated as sink instead of abyss.

    Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-78) 1989

  • On mesure ainsi le gouffre qui sépare les deux pays.

    Morocco: Bloggers Rally Behind Fouad Mourtada 2008

  • Et puis c'était un gouffre à thunes parce qu'elles ont été terminées, il me semble, en 1973 et pour recâbler tout ça, pour le mettre à l'heure de toute la technologie et tout, c'était beaucoup plus cher de faire des travaux etc. que de les détruire …

    John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2008

  • Plonger au fond du gouffre, Enfer ou Ciel, qu'importe?

    Intimate Journals 1949

  • Renaîtront-ils d’un gouffre interdit à nos sondes,

    Le Balcon 1920

  • I had heard the country-people speak of it as a peculiarly horrible and treacherous _gouffre_, and its name, which means

    Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine Edward Harrison Barker 1885

  • I now left the road, and followed a lane by the stream that flows out of the _gouffre_.

    Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine Edward Harrison Barker 1885

  • This legend is to the effect that the conventual building was once inhabited by women who ate children, and that a certain mother, whose baby they had kidnapped and eaten, cursed them so heartily and to such purpose that the _gouffre_ was formed, and their convent, or the greater part of it, was supernaturally carried down the hill and plunged into the bottomless water.

    Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine Edward Harrison Barker 1885

  • Si elle n'a pas fait ouvrir le gouffre, c'est elle du moins qui a rendu patent et visible le long travail souterrain qui, silencieusement, avait prepare la separation entre nos deux camps d'aujourd'hui, pour ecarter enfin, d'un coup soudain, la France des traditionalistes

    Meaning of Truth William James 1876

  • Quelquefois, en sortant d'un gouffre, une agréable prairie, réjouissoit tout-à-coup mes regards.

    The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806

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