All 17 Uses
abyss
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Journey to the Center of the Earth - Verne trnsl by G&F - 44 chptrs
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- "Look around you," said my uncle in a stern voice, "heaven knows what profound abysses you may have to look down.†
Chpt 5abysses = holes or dropoffs so deep the bottom cannot be seen -- often used figuratively to imply frightening bottomless pits
- I became intoxicated with a sense of lofty sublimity, without thought of the abysses into which my daring was soon about to plunge me.†
Chpt 13 *
- It was necessary to walk through the midst of eruptive rocks, some of which, shaken in their balance, went rolling down with thundering clamor to the bottom of the abyss.†
Chpt 13abyss = a hole or dropoff so deep the bottom cannot be seen -- often used figuratively to imply a frightening bottomless pit
- One of our great parcels of rope slipped from one of the Iceland porters, and rushed by a short cut to the bottom of the abyss.†
Chpt 13
- I had not as yet ventured to take a glimpse down the horrible abyss into which in a few minutes more I was about to plunge.†
Chpt 14
- There is nothing more powerful than this attraction towards an abyss.†
Chpt 14
- My uncle leaning over the abyss followed the descent of his luggage with a perfectly self-satisfied air, and did not rise until it had completely disappeared from sight.†
Chpt 14
- We were approaching the bottom of the abyss!†
Chpt 14
- I did not wish to abandon him at the bottom of that abyss, while, on the other hand, the instinct of preservation told me to fly.†
Chpt 18
- However, I soon got used to the ideal for the passage now level, now running down, and still always to the southeast, kept going deeper and deeper into the profound abysses of Mother Earth.†
Chpt 21abysses = holes or dropoffs so deep the bottom cannot be seen -- often used figuratively to imply frightening bottomless pits
- Are we advancing towards some mighty waterfall which shall cast us into the abyss?†
Chpt 31abyss = a hole or dropoff so deep the bottom cannot be seen -- often used figuratively to imply a frightening bottomless pit
- Probably this mode of descending into the abyss may be agreeable to the Professor, because it would be something like the vertical descent he is so eager to make.†
Chpt 31
- I felt myself precipitated violently into the boiling waves, and if I escaped from a certain and cruel death, it was wholly owing to the determination of the faithful Hans, who, clutching me by the arm, saved me from the yawning abyss.†
Chpt 33
- Were any of these men of the abyss wandering about the deserted shores of this wondrous sea of the centre of the earth?†
Chpt 35
- I saw a fathomless, a bottomless abyss, which yawned beneath the turgid waves.†
Chpt 39
- Beyond the rock which had been blown up, there existed a mighty abyss.†
Chpt 39
- Supposing that we had had provisions for months, and even for years, how could we ever get out of the awful abyss into which we were being hurled by the irresistible torrent we had let loose?†
Chpt 39
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)