All 8 Uses
abyss
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The Red Pyramid
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- The dagger should've impaled me in the chest, but somehow I deflected it with my blade and sent it sailing into the abyss.†
Chpt 13 *abyss = a hole or dropoff so deep the bottom cannot be seen -- often used figuratively to imply a frightening bottomless pit
- It has many different regions and layers—the Abyss, the River of Night, the Land of the Dead, the Land of Demons—†
Chpt 18
- My prison was a magically created abyss deep in the Duat, and the obelisk was the door your parents used to release me.†
Chpt 19
- He cast us both into that abyss, where I was charged to fight the Serpent and keep it down forever.†
Chpt 26
- He stayed trapped in the abyss.†
Chpt 26
- The Serpent was already greatly weakened from eons of fighting with me, and when your mother used her own life force to close the abyss, well ...she worked a powerful feat of magic.†
Chpt 26
- It widened into a rift—a doorway between this world and the brilliant white abyss that would lock Set away, trapping his life force.†
Chpt 40
- I could've sent you into the abyss, Set, but you saw the real enemy.†
Chpt 40
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)