There were dreary wastes of stones where nothing grew--no single plant nor blade of grass--dreadful abysses filled with ice, and glittering snowfields sloping upward till they seemed to touch the sky.
It grows in so rare perfection only upon the highest and wildest rocks--mostly upon cliffs, overabysses many hundred feet in depth, where one false step would be fatal to him who gathers it.
Are the dead trees still hanging over the abysses of the Kyffhauser as in former days?
Finally, far back in the remotest part of these abysses the kings of this empire are moving about; these thick-set men, with stout limbs and monstrous heads, are the Gnomes.
We can sound the abyssesof astronomic space easier than we can sound the abysses of geologic time.
It was beautifully said, but I felt again the abysses that the mere saying of it covered, and the sense of these wonderful things was not a little, no doubt, in my immediate cheer.
It wasn't, throughout, I was to feel, that she at all had abysses of irony, for she in fact happily needed none.
Here is a soul plunged in the lowest abysses of doubt; but it is a manly soul which seeks in doubt a trial for truth, and not a comfortable pillow on which slothfully to repose.
It needs not that we seek very high or very far away for occasions of astonishment: the least of the objects which nature presents to our view contains abysses of wisdom.
What sweep and freedom, what vastness of scale, what abysses and gulfs, what wildernesses of peaks.
A love dust-deep, as it were, close to the earth; too mean and pitiful to be carried by the storm over terrible abysses to glorious heights.
Let us descend into these depths; let us make these abysses our sure retreat.
God does not set us here as on a knife edge, with abysses on either side ready to swallow us if we stumble, while He stands apart watching for our halting, and unhelpful to our tottering feebleness.
But the night peoples its waste places with stars, and fills all its abysses with blazing glories.
Each day he penetrated deeper into it, past abysses and roaring beasts.
If our travellers looked up to their summits they saw the wild ruggedness of their covering; if they looked downwards they saw abysses in which the water thundered.
Dussardier was terrified by these black abysses of hate, and when he had ascertained what was the exact day fixed for the sale, he hurried out.
Living in the abysses where the light never penetrates, the pelagic animals are not obliged to be transparent or blue like the neritic beings on the surface.
Nymphs of the green abysses with faces fresh as a rosebud, fragrant virgins that took the forms of all the monsters of the deep," sang the Orphic hymn on the Grecian shore.
In the lowestabysses sightless creatures are very scarce, contrary to the common opinion, which imagines that almost all of them lack eyes because of their distance from the sun.
The abysses roared, the rocks moaned; on the ledges were singing sirens who, with their music, attracted ships in order to dash them to pieces.
His own life, so active and so occupied, placed ages and abysses between each of his periodical voyages.
On what bottomless abysses of impurities she will have to pass and travel, in company with the priest alone, before he will have interrogated her on all the sins she may ignore, and which she may have concealed through shame!
How horrible its abysses seem, when we think of them as out of the circle of all the laws and relations which exist among us upon earth!
He tells her that he has in his mind the tower of the cathedral, a perilous journey over abysses with an indispensable fellow-traveller.
The difficult and dangerous journey ‘over abysses where a slip would be destruction’ may have no reference to the actual tower, but to the perils of the scheme and the risk of detection.
For five days, we journeyed on in a labyrinth, now to the right, now to the left, and sometimes retracing our steps, in order to avoid abysses and inaccessible mountains.
Travellers are obliged to pass these deep abysses by following, at a great height, so narrow a ledge, that the horses frequently find only just enough room to plant their feet.
The men who perform this arduous labour rarely attain an advanced age; many of them fall into theabysses or remain buried in the snow.
The voice of the sea is seductive, never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander in abysses of solitude.
And if, as he grew older, abysses had formed in his science, they had also formed in his heart.
It matters little whether we say that grander abysses have opened in it, or merely that the bottom has fallen out of it.
And again the chief danger is that they may be persuaded that the wordy compromises of Western politics can reconcile them; that such abysses can be filled up with rubbish, or such chasms bridged with cobwebs.
Whatever else this narrow strip of land may seem like, it does really seem, to the spirit and almost to the senses, like the bridge that may have borne across archaic abysses the burden and the mystery of man.
Love is a sea Filling all the abysses dim Of lornest space, in whose deeps regally Suns and their bright broods swim.
In the darkening and whitening Abysses adored, With dayspring and lightning For lamp and for sword, God thunders in heaven, and his angels are red with the wrath of the Lord.
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