Still, there is a limbo of curious evidence bearing on the subject of pre-natal influences sufficient to form the starting-point of an imaginative composition.
So long as this mystery remained unsettled, the Pacific stretched a great limbo pregnant with the wildest fancies.
But in most cases this is put down to normal variability, or maybe to that limbo of all a baby's troubles: weakness.
They have been a hopeless lot, belonging to the limbo of the incurables.
Not that they relegated it with that statement to the limbo of the dull and the uninteresting.
If he could find solace in hislimbo of minor madness, perhaps that was best for him.
Our destiny is fell; 55 For in this Limbo we must ever dwell, Shut out alike from heaven and Earth and Hell.
The dreary limbo of dinginess lay all around and beneath that little illuminated circle in which life reached its finest efflorescence, as the mud and sleet of a winter night enclose a hot-house filled with tropical flowers.
Now you have heard my mournful ditty, I hope you'll spare a little pity; Keep me in limbo till you try If I don't scorn to tell a lie.
Is it not an uncommon case, thus to find a remarkable degree of aerial transparency with such a state of weather?
On our return we overtook a party of about twenty young black girls, dressed in excellent taste; their black skins and snow-white linen being set off by coloured turbans and large shawls.
As soon as we approached near, they suddenly all turned round, and covering the path with their shawls, sung with great energy a wild song, beating time with their hands upon their legs.
This difference was nearly double that which I had observed on the previous mornings.
Mr. Lyell has also given me four packets of dust which fell on a vessel a few hundred miles northward of these islands.
The daily deliberations of the Council of State prove that the reform proposals of the High Commission are not to be consigned to the limbo of abortions.
The viceroy returned from Peking, broken in health; the little strength he had left was given to military preparation for the contingencies of the Russo-Japanese War; and his university was consigned to the limbo of forgotten dreams.
Would Sir William Ramsay or Sir James Crichton-Browne throw these manifestations into the limboof humbug and charlatanism?
He hoped, however, that a few weeks' work would enable him to relegate it "Into a limbo large and broad, since called The Paradise of fools.
It is the perverse sinning against light that is one of the most abiding features of crankery, and from this point of view such a book as "Coin's Financial School" has many claims for admission to the limbo of eccentric literature.
The considerations which would lead one to consign a book to that limbo are often complex.
He frequently remained to the midday meal with the family, and was as gay and lively as if Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe were in the limbo to which he gladly would have consigned them.
Freneau's Gazette supported the Secretary of State with the desperation of an expiring cause; in this great final battle, were Jefferson driven from the Cabinet, his faithful organ must scurry to the limbo of its kind.
Plot, action, trickeries, cheap illusions, must be swept away into the limbo of things used up.
With the Schoolmen, Limbo was a border region of hell where dwelt the souls of Old Testament saints, pious heathen, lunatics, and unbaptized infants.
Fly o'er the backside of the world far off, Into a limbo large and broad, since called The paradise of fools.
The new event can wake but partial echoes in his soul or none at all; it can neither be received into, nor can it create a complete relation, and so it passes incommensurable from limbo into forgetfulness.
Just one of those regrettable incidents that fade into the limbo of forgotten things, it served as a topic of conversation to certain ribald subalterns, and then it gradually disappeared into obscurity along with Percy FitzPercy.
Mogg's had faded into thelimbo of forgotten things; his horizon consisted of a foetid shell hole, a panting, writhing Hun fighting for his life in the darkness of the night, a cracking arm and then .
Shall pash his coxcomb such a knock, As that his soul his course shall take To Limbo and Avernus' lake.
That is contrary to the laws of the Church and of the State; of the State, because you might deprive me of a subject; of the Church, because you would be sending an innocent to limbo unshriven.
With this in view he determined to follow her in order to ascertain whither she would lead him--to Paradise or to the limbo of hell--to a gibbet or to an abode of love.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "limbo" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
