All 19 Uses
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Journey to the Center of the Earth - Verne trnsl by M - 45 chptrs
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- But I must confess that in another hour this unnatural excitement abated, my nerves became unstrung, and from the depths of the abysses of this earth I ascended to its surface again.†
Chpt 7abysses = holes or dropoffs so deep the bottom cannot be seen -- often used figuratively to imply frightening bottomless pits
- I spent it dreaming of abysses.†
Chpt 7 *
- You must take a lesson in abysses.†
Chpt 8
- No violence accompanied this change; the matter thrown out was in vast quantities, and the liquid material oozing out from the abysses of the earth slowly spread in extensive plains or in hillocky masses.†
Chpt 15
- I felt intoxicated with the sublime pleasure of lofty elevations without thinking of the profound abysses into which I was shortly to be plunged.†
Chpt 16
- Our route lay amidst eruptive rocks, some of which, shaken out of their loosened beds, rushed bounding down the abyss, and in their fall awoke echoes remarkable for their loud and well-defined sharpness.†
Chpt 16abyss = a hole or dropoff so deep the bottom cannot be seen -- often used figuratively to imply a frightening bottomless pit
- Yet, notwithstanding the difficulties of the descent, down steeps unknown to the guide, the journey was accomplished without accidents, except the loss of a coil of rope, which escaped from the hands of an Icelander, and took the shortest way to the bottom of the abyss.†
Chpt 16
- There is nothing more treacherous than this attraction down deep abysses.†
Chpt 17abysses = holes or dropoffs so deep the bottom cannot be seen -- often used figuratively to imply frightening bottomless pits
- My uncle, leaning over the abyss, followed the descent of the luggage with a satisfied nod, and only rose erect when he had quite lost sight of it.†
Chpt 17abyss = a hole or dropoff so deep the bottom cannot be seen -- often used figuratively to imply a frightening bottomless pit
- I would not leave him in this bottomless abyss, and on the other hand the instinct of self-preservation prompted me to fly.†
Chpt 21
- But at last a noise of footsteps was heard in the dark abyss.†
Chpt 23
- At our feet there now opened a frightful abyss.†
Chpt 24
- This well, or abyss, was a narrow cleft in the mass of the granite, called by geologists a 'fault,' and caused by the unequal cooling of the globe of the earth.†
Chpt 24
- It was like the distant rumble of continuous thunder, and I could hear its sounding undulations rolling far away into the remote recesses of the abyss.†
Chpt 28
- The word cavern does not convey any idea of this immense space; words of human tongue are inadequate to describe the discoveries of him who ventures into the deep abysses of earth.†
Chpt 30abysses = holes or dropoffs so deep the bottom cannot be seen -- often used figuratively to imply frightening bottomless pits
- Are we, then, speeding forward to some cataract which will cast us down an abyss?†
Chpt 34abyss = a hole or dropoff so deep the bottom cannot be seen -- often used figuratively to imply a frightening bottomless pit
- Might not some living man, some native of the abyss, be yet a wanderer below on this desert strand?†
Chpt 38
- On the other side of the blown-up rock was an abyss.†
Chpt 41
- If we had had provisions enough for months, how could we get out of the abyss into which we were being hurled by an irresistible torrent?†
Chpt 41
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)