A short way further the floor sank--only a little, I believe, but from the darkness I took the descent for an abyss into which Charley had fallen.
Although the slope is not very steep, the sensation of slipping down gently into some distant, unknown abyss is unpleasantly suggestive of danger.
Transported beyond his age and his own individuality, he was seeing the transmutation of the being men called Khosatral Khel which crawled up from Night and the Abyss ages ago to clothe itself in the substance of the material universe.
The whites gave this name to the county, and called the abyss "Big Sink.
Through this prairie a stream issuing from Newman's Lake flowed to a point near the middle of the district, where it suddenly fell into an unfathomed abyss named by the Indians Alachua (the bottomless pit).
If the earth was, for ages, a turbid abyssof lava and of mud, why may not Mars or Saturn be so still?
The ancient song that quaintly sings Towns lost in olden times; And how from the sea's abyss there rings The sound of prayers and chimes.
Here an abyss is yawning; There towers a foaming height.
Nor is there anything that should be further removed from youth than the contemplation of death, which to old age is but a haven of rest to be desired, whereas to those who are still young it is an abyss to be abhorred.
Who is able to fathom the deep abyss of this love!
And though the abyss of our misery be ever so great, yet the merits of Jesus Christ are greater.
Let us consider how this doctrine of the sea may bring to our remembrance that twofold sea mentioned in Scripture: the sea of affliction and misery, and the sea of grace and comfort; the depths of misery, and the abyss of divine mercy.
To this abyss of misery and sin we must oppose the abyss of grace and consolation.
Job 38:16); so is our life an unsearchable abyss of misery and sorrow.
So that as the heart of man is, as it were, an abyss of iniquity (Jer.
This abyss of corruption, the most learned men could never fully fathom nor explain: and yet much more difficult is it to root it out of human nature.
You may fancy this is caricature; but the abyss of confusion produced by modern science in nomenclature, and the utter void of the abyss when you plunge into it after any one useful fact, surpass all caricature.
It is still wasting, for as it is radiated into space it does not even raise the temperature of the trackless abyss through which it passes.
How shall we pass the abyss between matter and spirit?
I was aghast at the journey, and fearful of the abyss which seemed deep as infinitude.
The combined surface of all the planets would receive a scarcely appreciable ratio of the entire amount which, unimpeded, flies away into the abyss of space.
Hardenberg; "is not France herself on the brink of the abyss into which she has hurled all states, princes, and crowns?
Wilfrid stood on the edge of the cliff as motionless as a statue, lost in thought, longing to cast himself into the flow of the torrent, like one of the fallen trees that passed under his eyes and vanished in the abyss beneath.
I have for the last few days been wandering round this abyss of madness too helplessly to keep silence any longer.
Before them lay a view without any horizon, an abyss into which ardent craving invited them to plunge; but burdened with their hapless bodies, they had the desire without the power.
The angels bent the knee to do honor to his glory, the spirits bent the knee to testify to their eagerness, and in the abyssall knelt, shuddering with awe.
There was a ringing in her ears, a turmoil in her blood; but she stood there, nevertheless, calm and dignified, while gauging the depths of the political abyss beyond the real gulf that lay at her feet.
But who, in the critical hours of life, does not love to listen to presentiments and play see-saw, as it were, over the abyss of futurity?
It was wonderful to see them rise several hundred feet into the rarefied atmosphere over an abyss so deep that it has been named the "Bottomless Pit.
D'Argenton did not condescend to listen: he spoke of honor and duty, and of the abyss to which such evil conduct must always lead.
They descended to an abyss where the eyes accustomed to the light of day could distinguish absolutely nothing.
In all the time since finding the abyss he had forgotten them, first from the weak amnesia of near-death, then from simple disuse.
THE ABYSS The final star gate was completed, and by all the signs, not a day too soon.
On the seventh day since entering the tundra, an hour after the disappearing of light, a vast abyss opened before him, wider and emptier and deeper than any he had yet come across.
Overcome with Emotion, his Soul on the Rack, his Heart wounded and bleeding, he appeared like a lost Spirit crying out from an Abyss of Torment.
For with that Intuition which comes to us at times when those whom we love are in deadly peril, I had suddenly beheld the Abyss of Evil into which my Friend was about to plunge headlong.
From your deep abyssof gloom your eye will see it far away in the upper world of glory, with the glad companies of the redeemed sitting upon its summit in eternal rest and peace, and singing with the angels.
I don't deceive myself, I am fully aware that there is an abyss between your circle of society and ours.
For a moment he was conscious of the abyss before him: his chastity was his last prop, the very dignity of his spoilt life; and he realised that, if after yielding to his reason he also yielded to his flesh, he would be utterly lost.
The thought of all this frightened Pierre; a great shudder passed through him as he leant on the light iron balustrade, gazing down into the abyss where the stern mournful city was even now crumbling away under the fierce sun.
For a moment they remained silent, in their cruel grief at feeling that the abyss which parts different beliefs was yawning between them.
He had done nothing to detain Guillaume, for he realised that there was an abyss between them.
However, when he found that the call was from Monferrand, who wished him to go to the ministry, he shivered slightly, like a man saved from the abyss beside which he is travelling.
Was it not yonder at the corner of that street, at the end of that Boulevard, that he would find the expected abyss into which that rotten world, whose old society he could hear rending at each step, must soon assuredly topple?
Pierre could divine that an abyss was opening, and dared not insist.
Was there not here even with Benedetta the same despairing clasp seeking to vanquish death, the same savagery in hurling oneself into the abyss with the corpse of the one's only love?
City of Misery, the bottomless abyss of human suffering and degradation--how frightful were his journeys through it during those two years which distracted his whole being!
He appeared always drowned in an abyss of compunction.
The love of evil notoriety took possession of them like a sort of intoxication, and plunged into the abyss even those who otherwise would never have thought of becoming witches.
A single false shove, a single obstacle in the path, and all four of them would have been hurled into the abyss below and dashed to pieces.
If only the shadow of a sin had now darkened her soul she would not have been so blithe in the midst of danger, but would have looked down with a shudder at the awful abyss which seemed both Death and Hell.
It seems as if the faint light which science has shed upon the abyss of bygone ages were but to show that its depths must remain for ever unlighted by human reason and research.
Leaving this staircase, I followed the guide along a narrow path covered with fragments of shale, with Table Rock above and the deep abyss below.
One mingled look of apprehension and affection is exchanged, and, while the woods ring with the yells of the savages, Oronto and Lena plunge into the abyss in their white canoes.
It lay thick and heavy on Point Diamond, dimming the lustre of the bayonets of the sentinels as they paced the lofty bastions, and looked down into the abyss of fog below.
Finally, an abyss would open, and swallow up the whole; for Almighty God will not suffer the wickedness of man to go beyond a certain length.
He knew by experience to what anabyss the passions lead, and was desirous of warning others.
It was the sudden discovery of the abyss that had been dug between us.
I should not have understood the abyss of misfortune and ignoble falsehood in which I floundered about, feeling that something was not right.
For there is no other God of humanity than that poor and lowly image--no, not in heaven or on the earth or in the abyss beneath the earth.
Can it illuminate that black and empty abyss of death with any radiance of life?
Forever she had digged for him a black abyss between them.
