limbo

• I venture to insist that he has a real meaning, and that, although the limbo is a myth, the condition which he intends to illustrate by his allusion to it is a reality Once more: "I do not suppose that the dead soul of Peter Bell, of whom the great poet of nature says A primrose by the river's brim A yellow primrose was to him And it was nothing more would have been a whit roused from its apathy by the information that the primrose is a Dicotyledonous Exogen, with a monopetalous corolla and a central placentation." —  Who Wrote the Bible? : a Book for the People
• The present Christian dogma has no name for it, unless it be that nebulous limbo which is occasionally mentioned, and is usually defined as the place where the souls of the just who died before Christ were detained. —  The Vital Message
• After years of being stuck in major label limbo, Dalley was finally free to do things her way. —  The 9513
• She lives in limbo, arranging interviews, going on interviews and awaiting the results of interviews. —  news | SH | http://www.heraldtribune.com
• That's the perfect situation as far as he is concerned: an eternal limbo, an evacuation that neither lives nor dies. " —  MAHAGURU58

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