All 6 Uses of
abyss
in
Faust -- translated by Brooks
- No savage mountain climbing to the skies Should stay the godlike course with wild abysses; And now the sea, with sheltering, warm recesses Spreads out before the astonished eyes.†
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- Vanish, ye gloomy Vaulted abysses!†
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- That, like a cataract, from rock to rock descended To the abyss, with maddening greed possest: She, on its brink, with childlike thoughts and lowly,— Perched on the little Alpine field her cot,— This narrow world, so still and holy Ensphering, like a heaven, her lot.†
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- And even down the deep abysses Its melancholy quiverings throw!†
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- Else will they hurl thee down the dark abysses there.†
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- In frightful confusion, headlong tumbling, They fall, with a sound of thunder rumbling, And, through the wreck-piled ravines and abysses, The tempest howls and hisses.†
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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