gulphs

And now, the sea, late our defence, seems our prison bound; hemmed in by its gulphs, we shall die like the famished inhabitants of a besieged town.

The Last Man 2003

The image dominates descriptions of the natural ecology: "The breeze murmuring in the musical woods" (403), and black gulphs and yawning caves,

_Alastor_, Apostasy, and the Ecology of Criticism 1999

Less proximate indications of sensation are developed through nouns and adjectives that highlight tension and potential energy, as when Shelley employs representations of ice (e.g., glaciers and ice gulphs) to link adjectives of suspension, such as

The Transcendental: Deleuze, P. B. Shelley, and the Freedom of Immobility 1997

The carts being brought to these dark and weirdsome gulphs, looking all the blacker from the flickering lights of candles and garish gleams of lanterns placed beside them, the bodies, without rite or ceremony, were shot into them, and speedily covered with clay.

Royalty Restored 1883

Roxana occasionally talks about a hell within, and even has unpleasant dreams concerning 'apparitions of devils and monsters, of falling into gulphs, and from off high and steep precipices.'

Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) Leslie Stephen 1868

Diabolic Bridges which Dante would have condemned none but lost souls to climb, or cross; -- all this love of impending mountains, coiled thunder-clouds, and dangerous sea, being joined in us with a sulky, almost ferine, love of retreat in valleys of Charmettes, gulphs of

The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing John Ruskin 1859

Still we sank apart, down the black gulphs of the lake; still there was no light, no sound, no change, no pause of repose -- and this was eternity: the eternity of Hell!

Basil Wilkie Collins 1856

Her cordage creaked, and her timbers groaned dismally; and, as she was by turns borne aloft on the waves crested with foam and precipitated headlong into the gulphs that yawned between, great was the terror, loud the wailing, and frightful the turmoil.

The Boy Crusaders A Story of the Days of Louis IX. 1849

The grizzly bear also has chosen these places for his abode; he sullenly sneaks through the gulphs and chasms, and ravines, and frowns away the lurking Indian; whilst the mountain-sheep and antelope are bounding over and around the hill tops, safe and free from harm of man and beast.

Letters and notes on the manners, customs, and conditions of the North American Indians 1841

There is something fearful in knowing that beneath your feet, as you wander in these ruined places, exist gulphs of darkness, into which a false step amongst treacherous bushes and weeds might precipitate the unwary.

Béarn and the Pyrenees A Legendary Tour to the Country of Henri Quatre Louisa Stuart Costello 1834