141 examples of limbo in sentences

In the south, Andalusia only asked to be left alone to go her own sunny, indifferent way to the limbo of the great nations.

Nine days' wonders were departed long ago into the limbo of the days of Xerxes.

He stands perplexed beside the waters grime, Which sluggish move adown the limbo black, With murky waves that writhe demoniac, As ebon serpents curling through the gloom And hurl their inky crests, that silent come Toward the yawning gulf, a tide of hate; And sweep their dingy waters to Realms of Fate.

"Time is money," Robin says, 'Tis true I'll prove it clear: Tom owes ten pounds, for which he pays in Limbo half a year.

From this night of slavery Douglass emerged, passed through the limbo of prejudice which he encountered as a freeman, and took his place in history.

Looney sputtered and made sport as usual, till one night an unbaptized idea was somehow wafted into the limbo of his brain.

I am afraid that this comedy, and even Black-eyed Susan, JERROLD'S greatest triumph, have passed away into the limbo of forgotten plays and can never return to us.

Now the Prussian Junker, blind with fury, Claims to be God's counsel, judge and jury, While the authentic German genius slumbers, Cast into the limbo of back numbers.

Meanwhile General Trenchard, late chief of the Air Staff, and by general consent an exceptionally brilliant and energetic officer, has retired into the limbo that temporarily contains Lord Jellicoe and Sir William Robertson.

CARR, ALBERT H. Z. Return from limbo.

Limbo on the loose, a midsummer night's dream.

Dialogues in limbo.

Autolycus in limbo.

Limbo-by-the-sea.

Rocket to limbo.

Dialogues in limbo.

But now all this to limbo flies; What wonder that to-night I cries 'NewBreadfor Old?' "Good Sir, the Baker hath a soul And loves to make bread pleasant The Twist, the long Vienna Roll, The Horseshoe and the Crescent, The Milk, the Tin, the lovely loaf Where currants one discovers, The Wholemeal for the country oaf, The Knot for all true lovers.

A fresh silence, a new limbo; and then, suddenly, another voice and an unexpected individual.

One civilization after another has passed into the limbo of history leaving, sometimes, splendid ruins as a testimonial to its evident inadequacy to meet the survival needs of oncoming generations.

Pleasantly enough, Anthropology has herself but recently emerged from that limbo of the unrecognised in which Psychical Research is pining.

Next they are driven out of the prose vocabulary into that of poetry, and at last removed into that limbo of archaisms and affectations to which so many beautiful but dead words of our language have been unhappily banished.

They can be still used humorously and as it were in quotation marks; words like pelf, maiden, lad, damsel, and many others are sometimes used in this way, which at any rate keeps them from falling into the limbo of silence.

He who plays with the void, who dallies with eternity, who leaps from star to star, is in danger at every moment of being swept into utter limbo, and tossed forever in the Paradise of Fools.

Such theories were sent to limbo for ever, when a study of those plays of whose date we have external evidence revealed the fact that, as Shakespeare's life advanced, a corresponding development took place in the metrical structure of his verse.

The letters were hardly more than thirty years old; but the world which they depicted in all its intensity and all its singularitythe world of the old régimehad vanished for ever into limbo.

141 examples of  limbo  in sentences