Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Incapable of being measured or sounded with a plummet or lead-line; unfathomable.
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Examples
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With his unbending, utilitarian, matter – of – fact face, he hardened her again; and the moment shot away into the plumbless depths of the past, to mingle with all the lost opportunities that are drowned there.
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His dark eyes were large, beautiful with plumbless wisdom.
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Seeing them, the Savage made a grimace; but he was to become reconciled to them in course of time; for at night they twinkled gaily with geometrical constellations, or else, flood-lighted, pointed their luminous fingers (with a gesture whose significance nobody in England but the Savage now understood) solemnly towards the plumbless mysteries of heaven.
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His dark eyes were large, beautiful with plumbless wisdom.
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The words of the Spirit of Creation swell in a harmonious storm, they mould the worlds as with hands, they sweep the plumbless spaces as with a besom of winds.
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On either side was that soft plumbless diffusion, and ahead the secret of untravelled wilds and the fortunes of war.
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She was very quiet, very pale, yet the plumbless grief of her eyes brought tears to Hulm's face.
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Her eyes drew up from his, and looked away to plumbless distance, all glowing and childlike, and the new ciphers slowly said:
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Her eyes drew up from his, and looked away to plumbless distance, all glowing and childlike, and the new ciphers slowly said:
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Her eyes drew up from his, and looked away to plumbless distance, all glowing and childlike, and the new ciphers slowly said:
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