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abyss
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The Pit and the Pendulum
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Groping about the masonry just below the margin, I succeeded in dislodging a small fragment, and let it fall into the abyss.†
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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
In other conditions of mind I might have had courage to end my misery at once by a plunge into one of these abysses; but now I was the veriest of cowards.†

abysses = holes or dropoffs so deep the bottom cannot be seen -- often used figuratively to imply frightening bottomless pits
Having failed to fall, it was no part of the demon plan to hurl me into the abyss; and thus (there being no alternative) a different and a milder destruction awaited me.†

abyss = a hole or dropoff so deep the bottom cannot be seen -- often used figuratively to imply a frightening bottomless pit
An outstretched arm caught my own as I fell, fainting, into the abyss.†

Definitions:

(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)