The yesterday of which I spoke had been swallowed up in the abyss of years, ages gone.

Can it be a misstep, in the darkness, into the abyss between the land of waking and the land where there are nor years nor months nor days, where the soul abides in Lethe,save when some wing troubles the waters for a little while?

It was a giant battle that France lost every year, the abyss into which her whole strength sank, the charnel-place into which every hope was cast.

When everything germinates and grows around one, when one has determined on unreserved fruitfulness; on continuous creation and increase, how awful is the recall to the ever-present dim abyss in which the world is fashioned, on the day when misfortune falls, digs its first pit, and carries off a loved one!

2 Nor second he that rode sublime Upon the seraph-wings of Ecstasy, The secrets of th' abyss to spy.

If she could only remain calm, she could look Into the black abyss with the eye of reason, rather than terror.

In the abyss below there are twenty dogs at least, all of them sick, all dangerous.

And this oscillation proceeds from such natural cause as this: one of the chasms of the earth is exceedingly large, and perforated through the entire earth, and is that which Homer speaks of, 'very far off, where is the most profound abyss beneath the earth,' which elsewhere both he and many other poets have called Tartarus.

It drifted toward the abyss without making any reasonable effort to save itself; for the dictatorship was scarcely an effort of reason.

Like the brave Sickenhagen, he said to himself, "Better a terrible end than an endless terror," and he preferred casting himself down the abyss at once, to be slowly hurled from cliff to cliff.

The tremendous abyss on either hand I studiously ignored.

He rushed furiously upon the archdeacon, and with his great fists he hurled Claude Frollo into the abyss over which he leaned.

But no sooner has she sunk into the abyss than the foam and the fierce breakers die away, and a wondrous calm broods over all things.

And yet, in plumbing the abyss for judgment, Something I strike upon which turns my mind Back on herself, I think, againmy breast Concentres all the terrors of the Universe: I look at him and tremble like a child.

He felt it must even then be slipping back into the abyss from which it had emerged.

The rules of longevity were in oblivion and the routine channels of a mind, so used to teeming detail, had become abysses as dark and void as the canyons of the range.

Scarborough gave a clear and appalling account of how the Ranger-Whitney Company's prosperity was slipping into the abyss like a caving sand bank, on all sides, apparently under pressure of forces beyond human control.

God's blessing on the architects who build The bridges o'er swift rivers and abysses Before impassable to human feet, No less than on the builders of cathedrals, Whose massive walls are bridges thrown across The dark and terrible abyss of Death.

In a very short time it became the topic of general remark; excited the ridicule or grave anxieties of his friends; involved him in a thousand disagreeable positions; lowered his character, without the slightest compensating advantage to his artistic career; and nigh dragged him down into an abyss beyond hope of rescue.

"May Nature guard you in her deep abysses among the pearls and corals of her eternal seas," then said the priest, solemnly extending his hands.

No rainbows were now observed on the great vapour-cloud which shrouds for ever the bottom of the Fall; but we were extremely fortunate to see now plainly what I had looked for in vain at my last visit, the water-rockets, first described by Captain Hall, which shot up with a train of vapour singly, and in flights of a dozen, from the abyss near Table Rock, curved towards the east, and burst and fell in front of the cataract.

No longer did even the wiser of the two remember that this is that same abyss out of which slowly, painfully, the race has climbed.

Now I have returned to destroy that system, to precipitate its downfall, to hurl it into the abyss toward which it is senselessly rushing, even though I may have to shed oceans of tears and blood.

How it must roar in the abyss under the cliffs!