All 3 Uses of
abyss
in
War and Peace
- A thousand times during that month and a half while he felt himself drawn nearer and nearer to that dreadful abyss, Pierre said to himself: "What am I doing?†
Chpt 3abyss = a hole or dropoff so deep the bottom cannot be seen -- often used figuratively to imply a frightening bottomless pit
- You have not helped her to find the way of truth, my dear sir, but have thrust her into an abyss of deceit and misery.†
Chpt 5 *
- No. All I say is that it is not argument that convinces me of the necessity of a future life, but this: when you go hand in hand with someone and all at once that person vanishes there, into nowhere, and you yourself are left facing that abyss, and look in.†
Chpt 5