Even if I succeed in being the first to mount some height untrod hitherto by any human foot, yet the next generation will climb on my shoulders and hurl me down into the abysm of oblivion.
One cliff is like another in its jagged nakedness; one abysm dark and empty as another.
But I dare not jump, for the ice must not crumble lest an abysm open at my feet.
With fascinated horror, they watched the craft's erratic course, as it swung loggily westward and headed toward that yawning abysm from which they had all so lately risen.
Illustration: They tilted her rudders and dove to the abysm below.
Slipping out over the edge of that precipitous tableland, they tilted her rudders and dove to the abysm below.
It took a rapid downward course and soon reached the ruinous discount of one hundred and fifty dollars of paper for one of silver and then took a fatal leap and plunged into the abysm of worthlessness.
Let the shining examples of Mr. Lee be reflected forcibly on our minds and lead us to do all the good in our power whilst we live and prepare for a peaceful and happy exit from the abysm of time.
They take their lord and cast him into this abysm and this filth.
And instead of abysm below abysm of disaster and death in punishment for religion's scarlet sin of sins for woman, there was prospect of a life in which she could profit by the experience she had gained.
In so profound abysm I throw all care Of others' voices, that my adder's sense, To critic and to flatterer stopped are: Mark how with my neglect I do dispense.
Voguee declared that Tolstoy had, like an intrepid explorer, leaped into an abysm of philosophical contradictions.
Behold the superstructure whose foundations our forefathers laid upon the unstable overgrowth of popular caprice surfacing the unplummeted abysm of human depravity!
It was apparently down in the depths of his abysm that he found the connection between this phrase and his last, and it was evidently to himself he said it.
His voice dropped, and he seemed to drop too, into someabysm of thought.
Before it could have been uttered, the remaining moiety of the madman's body was seized by the second shark, and borne down into the voiceless abysm of the ocean!
