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  • The immediate contingency overtook him, pulled him back from the edge of the theoretical abyss.   (source)
    abyss = bottomless pit (figurative usage)
  • I am frightened: I dare think this way no more. This way lies the abyss. It is not now the time but I will not lose these thoughts, I will keep them, shut them away until the war is ended.   (source)
    abyss = frightening bottomless pit (figurative)
  • But my very feelings changed to repulsion and terror when I saw the whole man slowly emerge from the window and begin to crawl down the castle wall over the dreadful abyss, face down with his cloak spreading out around him like great wings.   (source)
    abyss = long drop
  • At last, her shot being all expended, the child stood still and gazed at Hester, with that little laughing image of a fiend peeping out—or, whether it peeped or no, her mother so imagined it—from the unsearchable abyss of her black eyes.   (source)
    abyss = bottomless pit (figurative usage)
  • I feel as if I were walking on the edge of a precipice, towards which thousands are crowding and endeavouring to plunge me into the abyss.   (source)
    abyss = bottomless pit
  • An invisible barrier prevented me from accidentally running off the edge of the track and plummeting into the starry abyss.†   (source)
  • Risa plunges with the rest of the band into the smoky abyss, and in that instant all she can think of is Connor, and how the band never got to finish playing his farewell anthem.†   (source)
  • His mood, after a night of half-recalled dreams in which he repeatedly slipped from the branches of the apple tree into some formless abyss, was already black and raw.†   (source)
  • Revolving closely around each other, they seemed to perform a strange dance against the abyss of space.†   (source)
  • Thinking about it now, about how close I was to the abyss, gives me chills.†   (source)
  • Let's just say I took another step into the abyss but got to step back out of it.†   (source)
  • Yet I had a feeling that something was trying to rise from the abyss, something huge and evil.†   (source)
  • Langdon's and Sophie's eyes, like those of almost every visitor, shifted immediately skyward, where the abbey's great abyss seemed to explode overhead.†   (source)
  • The toilet is an abyss.†   (source)
  • Mae was baffled, and found her mood sinking into the same sort of abyss in which she'd spent the last few years.†   (source)
  • He looked off to the east and west, at the Wall stretching before him, a vast white road with no beginning and no end and a dark abyss on either side.†   (source)
  • His foot dislodges a pebble and it falls into the abyss, apparently gone forever.†   (source)
  • He was with her now, peering into an abyss, and they saw how the scree plunged down through the cloud cover.†   (source)
  • Retreat from the abyss, boys.†   (source)
  • The abyss where anger should have been.†   (source)
  • The pod's clamp tilted, rolling Holly into the abyss.†   (source)
  • There's only a double abyss: between painter and imprisoned bird; between the record he left of the bird and our experience of it, centuries later.†   (source)
  • There is an abyss beyond life where magic means nothing.†   (source)
  • The children were kneeling on a narrow piece of rock or stone, looking anxiously down at the abyss yawning beneath them.†   (source)
  • This dream creeps beyond others of sinuous ordeals, beyond demons throwing side-glances, beyond falling out of the bed and into an abyss of molten stone, beyond slipping in traffic and being unable to get up as headlights swim toward me.†   (source)
  • After a while I walked to the edge of the grassy shelf and stood where rock dropped away into the abyss.†   (source)
  • It sent me tumbling through my own abyss of sorts, trying to salvage what I could of my feelings and emotions, which would be scattered to the winds as she talked.†   (source)
  • The green abyss looked like it went somewhere so far away I could never reach it, not in a whole lifetime.†   (source)
  • Up, out of the abyss, up to the light.†   (source)
  • Nadia and her family both considered her thereafter to be without a family, something all of them, all four, for the rest of their lives, regretted, but which none of them would ever act to repair, partly out of stubbornness, partly out of bafflement at how to go about doing so, and partly because the impending descent of their city into the abyss would come before they realized that they had lost the chance.†   (source)
  • They take the 'jump into the abyss' of Faith's 'seventy thousand fathoms.'†   (source)
  • I am the Demon of the Abyss.†   (source)
  • The future beyond that was a big, dark abyss that I couldn't know until I leaped into it.†   (source)
  • The blue light glared on a picture of a huge and bearded Yahweh who was casting screaming multitudes of humans down through cloudy depths into an abyss of fire.†   (source)
  • Maybe a little more of a cliff, drop-off, or abyss than she thought.†   (source)
  • He had sidestepped the abyss yet one more time.†   (source)
  • He'd showed us the depth of what we must achieve, guided us to the brink of the forthcoming unknown abyss of BUD/S.†   (source)
  • But Florentino Ariza had not leapt across an abyss only to be shooed away with such excuses.†   (source)
  • Magda, Sara, Mari, R.J., and R.L. All of a sudden an abyss opened as Mikael's brain made an intuitive leap.†   (source)
  • He could see himself perched on a dizzying summit, having experienced much and possessed of a profound store of knowledge, but all around him was abyss.†   (source)
  • Make that an abyss.†   (source)
  • You two go into the abyss, then.†   (source)
  • The relative size of holes, abysses and gaps.†   (source)
  • I close my eyes and feel myself letting go, like tipping over the edge of an abyss, darkness rising up to carry me away....Bringbringbring.†   (source)
  • With that accomplished, we can pass through any wall, leap over any abyss.†   (source)
  • Then the silhouette of Adam rose up in the back, held on to the roll bar for a second, and dived into the abyss.†   (source)
  • Each would have found the abyss.†   (source)
  • I craved her touch, fearful I might sink back into the abyss where it was all dark and from which there was no promise of return.†   (source)
  • We were still trembling, and with every screech of the wheels, we felt the abyss opening beneath us.†   (source)
  • Somewhere down in that abyss of night, there was a clue—or there were many clues—to this strange absence of Gray Stoddard.†   (source)
  • The white world beneath me shines like pearls, a blank canvas, an alabaster abyss.†   (source)
  • Now, perhaps, we are in a better position to understand the abyss separating Sabina and Franz: he listened eagerly to the story of her life and she was equally eager to hear the story of his, but although they had a clear understanding of the logical meaning of the words they exchanged, they failed to hear the semantic susurrus of the river flowing through them.†   (source)
  • I labor to remember something: twisted roots, an abyss ...I lose it.†   (source)
  • He felt a quickening surge of dread and, for just a moment, imagined that there was nothing beyond Rowan's gates—just a vast abyss that stretched on forever.†   (source)
  • In prison, for the first time, I understood that faith could help people see beyond themselves, not into the abyss but into the street, into the mix, to offer what was best about themselves to others.†   (source)
  • The women wept and prayed right up until that inevitable moment when the machine guns opened fire and their loved ones toppled into the abyss.†   (source)
  • He staggered and fell, grasped vainly at the stone, and slid into the abyss.†   (source)
  • Because you would have to look into its abyss, and when you do, you're lost.†   (source)
  • He'd expected a dark abyss below him-black demons waiting to satisfy their lust for death.†   (source)
  • Mortenson, leaning out over the passenger side of the cab, could see the truck's rear tires rolling a foot from the edge of the gorge, spitting stones out into the abyss as Mohammed gunned the engine.†   (source)
  • One of Helene's men sends a mace whistling toward his head, and he is soon locked in another battle, jabbing and lunging as if he hadn't been perched on the edge of the abyss a minute before.†   (source)
  • But somebody's got to keep the language from sliding into the abyss.†   (source)
  • I guess that's because I've been living in the black abyss these past two weeks.†   (source)
  • As a result of this difference, Kant skirts right around the abyss of solipsism that Hume's path leads to and proceeds on an entirely new and different path of his own.†   (source)
  • Suddenly he was plummeting downward again, into an abyss again.†   (source)
  • And then, quickly, they revert to that terrifying black abyss circled in red.†   (source)
  • She stared into the dark abyss, took a deep breath, and called out,"Zadaa!"†   (source)
  • His emotions were liquid; his anger was a wild rage, his pleasure jubilation, his humor biting, his sorrow and empathy a bottomless abyss.†   (source)
  • The real question is, who pushed Daddy over the edge, into the abyss?†   (source)
  • In making the turns, Alessandro came perilously close to the abyss, and at times the edge of the cake would crumble away noiselessly after his foot had left it.†   (source)
  • My heart sank, fell a million miles into the abyss.†   (source)
  • And I had to make certain whatever pushed Mommy into the abyss would not suck me in, too.†   (source)
  • Beyond the few moving flares and the dulled sounds of screams, Chalmers sensed suddenly, not wanting to look at it, the black immensity of the mountains, the silence of hundreds of uninhabited miles, and the precarious strip of a ledge hanging between a wall of rock and an abyss.†   (source)
  • We were pulled toward the abyss that fell away to our right.†   (source)
  • He had watched James Cameron's Ghosts of the Abyss, a documentary about the director's journey twelve thousand feet down to visit the wreck of the Titanic.†   (source)
  • I needed you as the abyss across which my body must be drawn, I filled it with earth and dropped my seed in it at the moment of preparedness for my crossing.†   (source)
  • From the true trail branched many false trails that sometimes looked easier and more attractive; all these really led to the edges of precipices, beneath which lay the abyss of eternity.†   (source)
  • Sludge slurped and rolled around the rock island, the eternal oozing and shifting that marked this layer of the Abyss.†   (source)
  • They are in awe before the abyss of it all, in wonder at eternity and depth, and a Love, which is incomprehensible to the mind.†   (source)
  • He was overcome by a sense of falling, as from a great height, as though his Honda had driven off the freeway into an inexplicable and bottomless abyss.†   (source)
  • I'm here to drag you out of your social abyss.†   (source)
  • There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over, and men are no longer willing to be plunged into the abyss of despair.†   (source)
  • Neither one looked at Amanda right at that moment, but if they had, the pair would have seen something, only a tremble of the eyelids, that suggested Amanda had somehow heard her daughter, then fallen deeper into the abyss that had held her so very tightly already.†   (source)
  • I'd been half-jokingly telling myself I was nuts for years, but with everything that had happened over the late spring and summer, beginning with Sarah's release from jail and subsequent return, I'd found myself falling deeper and deeper into a mental abyss.†   (source)
  • After leading us to the brink of a precipice, they seem resolved to plunge us into the abyss.†   (source)
  • The smell is awful, and I feel as though I am underwater again, my eyes closed, holding my breath, gliding in the abyss, and I try my best to move, in my own measured crawl, my only flying.†   (source)
  • There were no barriers lining the staircase, and on more than one occasion I caught glimpses of a black abyss beyond it, extending for...I didn't know how many hundreds of feet.†   (source)
  • Oedipa found herself after five minutes sucked utterly into the landscape of evil Richard Wharfinger had fashioned for his 17th-century audiences, so preapocalyptic, death-wishful, sensually fatigued, unprepared, a little poignantly, for that abyss of civil war that had been waiting, cold and deep, only a few years ahead of them.†   (source)
  • Jutting rocky pinnacles and twisting crevices ...Reflexively, I drew back from the edge of the abyss, turned my light away.†   (source)
  • Released one by one into the smoggy abyss, they were more than I had hoped for, fulfilling every buried, infantile desire to float balloons to the uttermost boundaries of the earth.†   (source)
  • The great luminous fish suddenly flashed on all its lights in a frantic signal of alarm, and departed like a meteor Into the darkness of the abyss.†   (source)
  • One step and you would be hurtled into an abyss.†   (source)
  • For featureless on the abyss, invincible, moved monstrous intuitions.†   (source)
  • His opening eyes met Lorenzo's, close and flashing, and it was on seeing horror deep in them, like fires in abysses, that he recognized it for the first time.†   (source)
  • He has an opportunity now to move the world back from the abyss of destruction—by returning to his government's own words that it had no need to station missiles outside its own territory, and withdrawing these weapons from Cuba—by refraining from any action which will widen or deepen the present crisis—and then by participating in a search for peaceful and permanent solutions.†   (source)
  • I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow.   (source)
    abyss = bottomless pit (figurative)
  • ...life is simply one continual watch against the menace of death;—it has transformed us into unthinking animals in order to give us the weapon of instinct—it has reinforced us with dullness, so that we do not go to pieces before the horror, which would overwhelm us if we had clear, conscious thought—it has awakened in us the sense of comradeship, so that we escape the abyss of solitude—it has lent us the indifference of wild creatures, so that in spite of all, we perceive the positive in every moment, and store it up as a reserve against the onslaught of nothingness.   (source)
  • "I do forgive you, Hester," replied the minister at length, with a deep utterance, out of an abyss of sadness, but no anger.   (source)
    abyss = bottomless pit (figurative usage)
  • Together we can step back from this abyss.†   (source)
  • We ran down a marble tunnel, then dashed to the left and almost fell into an abyss.†   (source)
  • I call into the abyss, heedless of being recognized.†   (source)
  • She wanted to suggest a flashlight, but her brother had already disappeared into the abyss.†   (source)
  • I scryed both Murtagh and the Twins, and saw naught but the shadows of the abyss.†   (source)
  • Despair sucked at him, an empty, yawning void that threatened to pull him down into an awful abyss.†   (source)
  • Jose Arcadio Buendia, sunk in an abyss of unawareness, was deaf to her lamentations.†   (source)
  • Misery — Stephen King Part I Annie 'When you look into the abyss, the abyss also looks into you.'†   (source)
  • Abyss in her gut, desert in her throat—Marie-Laure takes one of the cans of food from her coat.†   (source)
  • Thomas felt an abyss of anxiety open up beneath him.†   (source)
  • With his heart falling into a black abyss, Thomas pulled the trigger.†   (source)
  • Her mind was filled with the huge knowledge of POWERS, and of an ABYSS.†   (source)
  • The black abyss in the sky began to spin.†   (source)
  • It was in the silence that followed that the camerlegno felt himself falling into the abyss.†   (source)
  • But he felt that the abyss remained all around him.†   (source)
  • A huge abyss in the Underworld, where the worst monsters come from.†   (source)
  • She was stuck in the abyss fighting Apophis.†   (source)
  • Instead, I feel like an abyss has opened up before me.†   (source)
  • If the distance to the target is unclear, the fleet will ultimately fall into the abyss of space.†   (source)
  • Robert Langdon's mind hovered in an endless abyss.†   (source)
  • The End Times were the natural finish for a culture sliding so quickly toward the abyss.†   (source)
  • He collapses on the ground and it flies into the abyss.†   (source)
  • The boy on the platform peeks over the edge as if into a swirling abyss and shuts his eyes.†   (source)
  • The cliff seemed to drop straight off into a bottomless abyss.†   (source)
  • Katherine slammed on the brakes, sliding to a halt in the middle of the abyss.†   (source)
  • In olden times, I rose from Tatarus, the abyss of my father, to challenge the gods.†   (source)
  • Paul, hearing these words, realized that he had plunged once more into the abyss ....blind time.†   (source)
  • But now he knew that behind the "C:\>" was a bottomless abyss.†   (source)
  • A harpy swooped out of nowhere, snatched the golden bag, and spiraled into the abyss.†   (source)
  • Suddenly time accelerates, and I am plunging into an abyss far darker than any I have ever imagined.†   (source)
  • Between us and them is a gulf, an abyss, that goes down and down.†   (source)
  • We are walking on a bridge of ice with an abyss on either side.†   (source)
  • A spearpoint jabbed at the small of the back, shoving him into the abyss.†   (source)
  • She took a new husband—Tartarus, the spirit of the abyss—and gave birth to a race of giants.†   (source)
  • The watery abyss was too dark and too dangerous for his liking.†   (source)
  • Annabeth herself had just come back from the eternal abyss of Tartarus.†   (source)
  • The longer and higher the span, the greater his sense of breathless abyss.†   (source)
  • He has passed through the fire and the abyss, and they shall fear him.†   (source)
  • Her broken shield slipped from her grip and somersaulted into the abyss.†   (source)
  • We are walking on a bridge of ice with an abyss on either side.†   (source)
  • "As are thee, great demon of the Abyss," Drizzt replied coolly.†   (source)
  • "Theoretically anything is possible," said Magnus, staring ahead as if into an abyss.†   (source)
  • The white king on his back, blank stare, the eyes an alabaster abyss looking back at me.†   (source)
  • It was as if the monster had simply dropped from the walls and fallen into an abyss.†   (source)
  • He cast us both into that abyss, where I was charged to fight the Serpent and keep it down forever.†   (source)
  • Max felt he was staring into the very same abyss that had confronted him in the Course.†   (source)
  • In the black abyss there appeared a single Eye that slowly grew.†   (source)
  • Why, then — ' The abyss opened at Will's feet — 'they could live forever!†   (source)
  • "Um, anyway," Nico continued, "Saturn probably faded back to the abyss.†   (source)
  • He thought he pulled every muscle in his body, and the cap sailed into the abyss.†   (source)
  • That they did not left him feeling as if he were teetering on the edge of a vast abyss.†   (source)
  • If we start worrying about usurpations by the federal government, we fall into a bottomless abyss.†   (source)
  • The beasts' legs floated in the abyss, turning from solid to smoke as they moved.†   (source)
  • Finally he drifted to a stop next to Percy, who stood on a ledge jutting over a deeper abyss.†   (source)
  • An abyss yawned in his chest, threatening to swallow his heart.†   (source)
  • 'Deep is the abyss that is spanned by Durin's Bridge, and none has measured it,' said Gimli.†   (source)
  • My mind empties: blank canvas, alabaster abyss.†   (source)
  • When the wind howled with great strength, it moved as if the abyss were trying to pull it away.†   (source)
  • Geras spread his withered hands and dimmed the entire abyss.†   (source)
  • The two strangers leaped into the abyss and vanished from sight.†   (source)
  • Al Dimeneira banished Errtu back to the Abyss with a single word.†   (source)
  • I could've sent you into the abyss, Set, but you saw the real enemy.†   (source)
  • Tears distorted Eragon's vision as he stared into the featureless abyss of Galbatorix's pupils.†   (source)
  • Far removed from the gloom of the Abyss, Crenshinibon came to rest upon the world.†   (source)
  • This could be just the first tiny part of the abyss, like the front steps.†   (source)
  • The wheel was the upper terminus of a freight trolley that ran over a vast abyss.†   (source)
  • Across that abyss, there is only one bridge.†   (source)
  • Gollum on the edge of the abyss was fighting like a mad thing with an unseen foe.†   (source)
  • She pointed to the newly formed abyss.†   (source)
  • Her husband might fall deeper into the abyss of this broken judicial system for lack of this piece of paper?†   (source)
  • Oh, I know it won't destroy you completely, but with your secret name I can send you into the abyss for eons, and it will be very, very painful.†   (source)
  • He was barely on the edge of consciousness, felt himself slipping in and out of an abyss that wanted to swallow him.†   (source)
  • She was thrown off Dylan's back and hit the railing, tumbling over the side until she was hanging by one hand over the abyss.†   (source)
  • Then last summer, on board Luke's demon cruise ship, we'd seen a golden coffin, where Luke claimed he was summoning the Titan Lord out of the abyss, bit by bit, every time someone new joined their cause.†   (source)
  • It might seem odd that in cities teetering at the edge of the abyss young people still go to class—in this case an evening class on corporate identity and product branding—but that is the way of things, with cities as with life, for one moment we are pottering about our errands as usual and the next we are dying, and our eternally impending ending does not put a stop to our transient beginnings and middles until the instant when it does.†   (source)
  • Beyond it, an abyss.†   (source)
  • I kept a tight grip on at least two vines at all'times and centimetered my way down, trying not to look at the abyss beneath my feet.†   (source)
  • Each barbed line was like a streak of night against the paper, an abyss into which he could lose himself and try to forget his confused feelings.†   (source)
  • But on the edge of the abyss he came out of his ecstasy, moved her hand away, sat up, and said in a tremulous voice: "Be careful, we have no rubbers."†   (source)
  • This time he was the gaoler, not the prisoner, big, with a strap in his hand, and he was hitting his father, driving him back, toward the abyss ... "Tyrion."†   (source)
  • At first, intoxicated by the glory of his return, by his remarkable victories, he had peeped into the abyss of greatness.†   (source)
  • "There are quite a lot of them," she said in an uncertain voice, just as they were taking another bend so fast they came alarmingly close to the abyss yawning on her left.†   (source)
  • Somewhere in the blackness ahead, he heard the camerlegno's cassock rustle as the priest ran blindly into the abyss.†   (source)
  • But when he saw her stumble at the door of the movie theater, by his own volition he took another step toward the abyss with the sudden realization that he, and not she, might be the one to die first.†   (source)
  • The air over the vortex filled with a cyclone of twisting mist, and from the ebony throat of the abyss came a tortured howl like the cries of an injured wolf.†   (source)
  • He did not move for a long time, wondering in fright how he had ever got to that abyss of abandonment, when a hand with all its fingers extended and feeling about in the darkness touched his face.†   (source)
  • Desjardins sacrificed his life to buy us time, but Apophis is quickly working his way out of the abyss.†   (source)
  • As though he is about to ride in some black chariot at a forty-five-degree angle down into the abyss.†   (source)
  • The vortex's ghastly howl faded into the usual noise of the wind; the water assumed a calm, flat quality that betrayed no hint of the habitual violence visited upon that location; and the contorted fog that had writhed above the abyss melted under the warm rays of the sun, leaving the air as clear as oiled glass.†   (source)
  • She turned her head and saw, a hand's breadth from her eyes, those other glacial eyes, that livid face, those lips petrified with fear, just as she had seen them in the crowd at Midnight Mass the first time he was so close to her, but now, instead of the commotion of love, she felt the abyss of disenchantment.†   (source)
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