All 10 Uses
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Madame Bovary
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- But from the general background of all these human faces Emma's stood out isolated and yet farthest off; for between her and him he seemed to see a vague abyss.†
Chpt 2.3 *abyss = a hole or dropoff so deep the bottom cannot be seen -- often used figuratively to imply a frightening bottomless pit
- Love, she thought, must come suddenly, with great outbursts and lightnings—a hurricane of the skies, which falls upon life, revolutionises it, roots up the will like a leaf, and sweeps the whole heart into the abyss.†
Chpt 2.4
- Do you know to what an abyss I was dragging you, poor angel?†
Chpt 2.13
- The luminous ray that came straight up from below drew the weight of her body towards the abyss.†
Chpt 2.13
- She, on the contrary, had been joyous, without seeing the abyss into which she was throwing herself.†
Chpt 2.15
- He would have quoted Chinese or Greenlandish had he known those two languages, for he was in one of those crises in which the whole soul shows indistinctly what it contains, like the ocean, which, in the storm, opens itself from the seaweeds on its shores down to the sands of its abysses.†
Chpt 3.2abysses = holes or dropoffs so deep the bottom cannot be seen -- often used figuratively to imply frightening bottomless pits
- It went to the bottom of her soul, like a whirlwind in an abyss, and carried her away into the distances of a boundless melancholy.†
Chpt 3.5abyss = a hole or dropoff so deep the bottom cannot be seen -- often used figuratively to imply a frightening bottomless pit
- He kept him for three quarters of an hour trying to open his eyes, to warn him of the abyss into which he was falling.†
Chpt 3.6
- She felt lost, sinking at random into indefinable abysses, and it was almost with joy that, on reaching the "Croix-Rouge," she saw the good Homais, who was watching a large box full of pharmaceutical stores being hoisted on to the "Hirondelle."†
Chpt 3.7abysses = holes or dropoffs so deep the bottom cannot be seen -- often used figuratively to imply frightening bottomless pits
- Now her situation, like an abyss, rose up before her.†
Chpt 3.8abyss = a hole or dropoff so deep the bottom cannot be seen -- often used figuratively to imply a frightening bottomless pit
Definitions:
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(1)
(abyss) a hole or dropoff so deep the bottom cannot be seen -- often used figuratively to imply a frightening bottomless pit
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)