Death lay depthless on either hand; ahead Death blocked the trail in silence.
As for the third pretender to the Flaming Jewel, Jake Kloon, he was now travelling in a fox's circle toward Drowned Valley--that shaggy wilderness of slime and tamarack and depthless bog which touches the northwest base of Star Peak.
Without any effort he pushed the entire sapling out of sight in the depthless silt.
For here trickled the thin flow of that rocky rivulet which was the other entrance and exit penetrating that immense horror of marsh and bog and depthless sink-hole known as Drowned Valley.
Then she crossed one knee over the other and looked out into the magic half-light of a woodland which, to her childish eyes, had once seemed a vast and depthless forest.
All that was required of anybody was money and a depthless capacity.
In her arms she cradled the Prophet, who stared solemnly at Barres out of depthless green eyes.
The Prophet sat there, staring back at her out of depthless orbs of jade, in which all the wisdom and mysteries of the centuries seemed condensed and concentrated into a pair of living sparks.
A vast and depthless cleft already divided them from to-day.
Perhaps the horror of it came suddenly upon him--God knows what happened when he stepped outward into depthless space and went crashing down to hell.
Below decks, a blue globe here and there emitted a feeble glimmer, marking corridors which pierced a depthless darkness.
So silvery the pools of light from the planets, so depthless the shadows, that the forest around him seemed but a vast mosaic in mother-of-pearl and ebony.
Beyond this there was nothing--no path, no progress possible--only a depthless gulf unabridged and the world of mountains beyond.
Standing in the candle-light by the window, where a million rainwashed stars twinkled in the depthless ocean of the night, I rested my brow against the cool, glazed pane, lost in most bitter reflexion.
She came nearer, and her eyes seemed depthless dusky in her pale face.
As for the third pretender to the Flaming Jewel, Jake Kloon, he was now travelling in a fox's circle toward Drowned Valley -- that shaggy wilderness of slime and tamarack and depthless bog which touches the northwest base of Star Peak.
Death lay depthless on either hand; ahead death blocked the trail in silence.
You would have to see his blurred old face and depthless eyes before you could understand.
Had she done so, she might have noticed a curious glazing of the eyes as they lifted to follow her--shining and depthless like blue steel.
In him I found none of that depthless background which genius ever offers.
Afloat upon the depthless sea we loose doves and ravens, who bear back to us olive boughs and flowers which we cannot analyze, but whose form and fragrance make our homes beautiful.
He was aware only of the rush of air as he leaped, an instant's hovering at the crest of a depthless chasm, then the sense of a mighty, resistless blow hurling him into infinity.
Perhaps she trembled slightly; and her eyes were simply depthless shadows under her brows.
Sign of life there was none; the current of the narrow stream ran like smooth oil; nor was its motion visible where it wound between soft, black banks of depthless swamp through immemorial shadows.
Centuries had spread the soundless carpet that we trod; eons had laid up the high-sprung arches which vanished far above us where vault and column were dimly merged, losing all form in depthless shadow.
