58 Metaphors for deepest

In the twilight I had seen the tremulous eyes of beings as deep as wells.

Red is the mist about me; Deep is the wound in my side; "Coward" thou criest to flout me?

Then so deep was his interest in the place, and so keen those dark eyes of his, that the truth suddenly dawned upon me.

"O Beltane, son of mine, long, long have I waited aye, bitter, weary years, and oft-times in my sorrow I have dreamed of this hourthe arms about thee are thy mother's arms!" Now fell Beltane upon his knees and caught those white and gentle hands and kissed them; quoth he: "MotherO dear my mother, ne'er did I know how deep had been my need of thee until now.

So deep had been her sleep, that it was some time before she could rouse herself to a recollection of her situation.

So deep was his affliction, that monsieur du Plessis, amorous and impatient as he was, had not courage to urge a grant of his own happiness, while those who were to bestow it, were incapable of sharing any part of it.

"The deepest and the bitterest feeling still is, the separation.

" Deep and long was the tenderness that fell betwixt these twain.

Deep were Wan's thoughts, sustained his ways; His reverence lit its trembling rays.

Deep and bitter were the curses which he poured upon those vandals; but I stood beside him, and I did not hear half that he said, for my eyes were fixed on the mitrailleuse standing on the garden path under the trees.

Those deepest in the conspiracy and the leaders of the plot and of the war, among others Armenius and Segimerus, were his constant companions and often entertained him.

So deep was this veneration, that I began to think of the necessity of making a new will, in order to bequeath him the place in the event of my dying without heirs, as I now imagined must sooner or later occur.

Deep was the cave; and downward as it went, From the wide mouth, a rocky wide descent; And here th'access a gloomy grove defends; And there th'innavigable lake extends.

Thus the deep is not a multitude of hostile powers, as has been imagined; nor "darkness" an evil sovereign force in enmity with good.

Deep and heartfelt was the thanksgiving he silently breathed to the Giver of all good, that He had brought him to this land of plenty, and given him such a heritage in the wilderness.

The crooked creatures pitied, as well they might, the lovely lady; they believed that Christ was in her; that the deepest in her was the nature He had madeHis own, and not that which she had gathered to herselfand thought her own.

it seemed no sleep; No mood, which season takes away, or brings: 10 I could have fancied that the mighty Deep Was even the gentlest of all gentle Things.

CHAPTER XXVIII.FRANCIS I. AND CHARLES V. The closer the study and the wider the contemplation a Frenchman bestows upon his country's history, the deeper will be his feelings of patriotic pride, dashed with a tinge of sadness.

No time was lost in conveying him home, and administering every kind of assistance; but many months elapsed before he was able to move from his house, so deep had been the injuries inflicted in his fall.

The street itself was almost more perilous to vehicles than the slush of the forest-tracks, so deep were the holes and so uncertain the surface.

What the mice did the remainder of the night I never knew, so deep were my slumbers.

Deep are his feet in Towy's flood, His sides are clothed with waving wood, And ancient towers crown his brow, That cast an awful look below; Whose ragged walls the ivy creeps, And with her arms from falling keeps; So both a safety from the wind On mutual dependence find.

But for a man to put the cheat upon himself; to play the Bobadil at home; and, steeped in poverty up to the lips, to fancy himself all the while chin-deep in riches, is a strain of constitutional philosophy, and a mastery over fortune, which was reserved for my old friend Captain Jackson.

Around thee and above Deep is the air and dark, substantial, black, An ebon mass: methinks thou piercest it As with a wedge!

If he have nothing better than friendship to give me, I choose death before life, so deep is my distress.

58 Metaphors for  deepest