All 12 Uses of
abyss
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- "To fall," continued King Louis, who at the first glance had sounded the abyss on which the monarchy hung suspended,—"to fall, and learn of that fall by telegraph!†
Chpt 11-12
- Sometimes she stood mute and motionless as a statue, looking towards Marseilles, at other times gazing on the sea, and debating as to whether it were not better to cast herself into the abyss of the ocean, and thus end her woes.†
Chpt 13-14
- There is a sort of consolation at the contemplation of the yawning abyss, at the bottom of which lie darkness and obscurity.†
Chpt 15-16 *
- It seemed to him that heaven had at length taken pity on him, and had sent this noise to warn him on the very brink of the abyss.†
Chpt 15-16
- I will, then, wait until the last moment, and when my misery is certain, irremediable, hopeless, I will write a confidential letter to my brother-in-law, another to the prefect of police, to acquaint them with my intention, and at the corner of some wood, on the brink of some abyss, on the bank of some river, I will put an end to my existence, as certainly as I am the son of the most honest man who ever lived in France.†
Chpt 73-74
- Danglars felt as much overcome with joy as the miser who finds a lost treasure, or as the shipwrecked mariner who feels himself on solid ground instead of in the abyss which he expected would swallow him up.†
Chpt 81-82
- "Ah," said Morrel, falling from the height of excitement to the abyss of despair—"ah, you are playing with me, like those good, or rather selfish mothers who soothe their children with honeyed words, because their screams annoy them.†
Chpt 105-106
- The hand which has retreated for a while will be again stretched forth to save me at the very moment when I shall think myself sinking into the abyss.†
Chpt 107-108
- The unhappy man uttered an exclamation of joy; a ray of light seemed to penetrate the abyss of despair and darkness.†
Chpt 111-112
- Years of grief have created an abyss between those days and the present.†
Chpt 111-112
- Like the gulf between me and the past, there is an abyss between you, Edmond, and the rest of mankind; and I tell you freely that the comparison I draw between you and other men will ever be one of my greatest tortures.†
Chpt 111-112
- Having reached the summit of his vengeance by a long and tortuous path, he saw an abyss of doubt yawning before him.†
Chpt 113-114
Definition:
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(abyss) a hole or dropoff so deep the bottom cannot be seen -- often used figuratively to imply a frightening bottomless pit