| 单词 | abysm |
| 例句 | And then, ignoring the dizzying abysm behind us, the head told us the story of St Hugh, as depicted there in front of us in the stained glass. The business of cathedrals 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z Delicate Ariel, sea nymphs ring the knell...in the dark backward and abysm of time...” Voices from the Past 2012-04-19T02:00:30.787Z But it was not to be supposed that they really cared for abysms or mystical mathematics, or that they were not a great deal more zealous for suppers, and drinking bouts, and boating parties. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z It seems the "dark backward and abysm of time" when writing the name of William Hurrell Mallock, yet not forty years ago he was the most discussed author of his day. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z "Besides, there's no sense in it," and he jerked his head backwards to signify the abysm. Miranda of the Balcony A Story 2012-01-28T03:00:24.760Z They touched the summits of daring and devotion, if they also sank into the deep abysms of shame. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" 2012-01-22T03:00:24.397Z I realized that a misstep might plunge me to a horrible death in the ice abysm below. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z At every step I seemed to be plunging down into some dark abysm of shadows below shadows. The Haunted Homestead A Novel 2011-07-13T02:00:22.920Z A state of divine revelation wherein for a single moment we are carried by the giant of Eternal Inutility to the abysms and summits of the perpetual Nix. The Roycroft Dictionary Concocted by Ali Baba and the Bunch on Rainy Days. 2011-07-02T02:00:10.980Z In the dark backward and abysm of time. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z Like Wagner, Baudelaire painted in his sultry music the profundities of abysms, the vastness of space. The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire with an Introductory Preface by James Huneker 2011-06-01T02:00:22.477Z Only the dark angry waves, roaring like enraged lions, and embracing the abutment as though they would drag it back with them into the abysm of the ocean! The Child Wife 2011-04-21T02:00:50.050Z Then it was a blissful sailing over awful abysms, a delirium of the senses, a nebulous ecstasy, a delightful writhing under lacerating blows, an ebb and flow of magnanimous scorn of self and blasphemous prayers. The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z The romantic," he says here, "is already fallen into its own abysm. Maxims and Reflections Phil and I had been classmates in the dark backward and abysm, and we were still, in a manner of speaking, friends. The Book of Susan A Novel And if her doubt were justified—what abysms opened before her—before them both! Shadows of Flames A Novel I've been exploring the dark backwards and abysm of the Bronx—afoot. The Destroying Angel Captain Babache, we are watching the setting of a star—we are seeing the Pléiade as she is gradually lost in the universal abysm. Francezka The novelists indeed can show that the beginning of their history is lost in the abysm of time. The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare “Tempest,” i, 2, 50: “In the dark backward and abysm of time.” Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature Vogüé declared that Tolstoy had, like an intrepid explorer, leaped into an abysm of philosophical contradictions. Ivory Apes and Peacocks Through dark abysms of Space, From strange new spheres where Death has called them now May they not, with a crown on every brow, Still cry to the loved earth's lost familiar face? Collected Poems Volume One Slipping out over the edge of that precipitous tableland, they tilted her rudders and dove to the abysm below. Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1931 It is impossible to scrutinize these dread abysms of mansions, without experiencing that strange mixture of repugnance and attraction which certain spectacles are wont to call forth in animated nature. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 364, February 1846 Oh, it is the Fourth Dimension they have found—my black abysm! Melomaniacs The universes, as you may know, are set off from each other by totally black and empty abysms, expanses so vast that light-rays have not yet crossed many of them. Raiders of the Universes It was as if the earth’s dissolution were at hand—as if the long-gathered wrath of the Judgment Day were rending the earth asunder and hurling the fragments afar into the black abysm of eternity. Counsel for the Defense 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. Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1931 What abysms of woe The word reveals, what frenzy, what Despair! Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 In fact the music is experimental—in the development-section I endeavor to represent the depths of starry space; one of those black abysms that are the despair of astronomer and telescope. Melomaniacs To Fenwick it was, like many others of the same sort, a possible herald of an analogous revelation in waking hours, with a sequel of dreadful verification from some abysm of an utterly forgotten past. Somehow Good 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! The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea I followed the fence, and here I am—I and my companion”—McArthur patted the skull lovingly—“this giant—the slayer of mastodons—whose history lies concealed in ‘the dark backward and abysm of time’!” 'Me--Smith' Are we to suppose that the depths of malignity in an Iago, or the "dark backward and abysm" of remorse in a Macbeth, are things purely relative and illusive? Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations It was for a second—nay, an eternity, I think—as if we two were rapt 216 out of the world, out of ourselves, into some infinite abysm of life. The Jessica Letters: An Editor's Romance Behold the superstructure whose foundations our forefathers laid upon the unstable overgrowth of popular caprice surfacing the unplummeted abysm of human depravity! The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909 Both must succumb to the laws of Nature,—the laws of gravitation,—or rather of specific gravity,—and sink below the surface,—down, down into the fathomless and unknown abysm of the ocean. The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea Along the gloomy avenue of death To seek the dread abysm of Urugal, In everlasting Dark whence none returns, Ishtar, the Moon-god's daughter, made resolve, And that way, sick with sorrow, turned her face. Chaldea From the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria What see’st thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time? Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 In all his life he had never had such a gorgeous sleep as that, his weary and harassed brain revelled in moments of semi-consciousness, and then sank back into the last abysms of oblivion. The Man Who Lost Himself The warrior that followed, passing the word behind him, rode after, and likewise disappeared in the darkness; then another, and another, until five hundred mounted men were engulfed in that fearful-looking abysm. The White Chief A Legend of Northern Mexico Night was fast closing over the prairie; I dared not ride farther amid these perilous abysms. The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse Peering again into the dark backward and abysm, it seems that the two rejuvenated gossips trundled up on Lexington Avenue to Alfred Goldsmith's cheerful bookshop. Pipefuls An adverb can be used as a verb, ‘they askance their eyes’; as a noun, ‘the backward and abysm of time’; or as an adjective, ‘a seldom pleasure.’ A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 Thus Lamartine, in a rapturous strain, had congratulated himself on having been the instrument of saving his friend from the abysm of unbelief. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 A horseman dashed to the front; and, poising his horse upon the very edge, looked down into the abysm. The White Chief A Legend of Northern Mexico We could see nothing in the dark abysm that frowned below; and we waited till the light should break forth again. The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse Through drifts of snow and over fields of ice, up steep ledges, along the slippery escarpment that overhangs the giddy abysm, with wearied knees, and panting breath, and frozen fingers, onward and upward I go. The Rifle Rangers The black abysm under the earth was the realm of the dead. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life All this will be accomplished not in a series of existences, separated one from the other by abysms of forgetfulness, but in a remembered continuity of life deepening through endless growth. Modern Religious Cults and Movements It is easy to see how such conditions profoundly limit the development of organic being in the abysm of the ocean. Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography That he had swum some rapid stream? or plunged over a precipice—into some dark abysm? The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse Under the happiest hypothesis the Triple Alliance and the Triple Entente will have disappeared into the deep backward and abysm of time. Armageddon—And After And if a world could ever hate the rest, 'Twould rush forever to the abysm of gloom, And dreariest part of chaos. Lays of Ancient Virginia, and Other Poems Intoxicating languors Resistlessly embrace me, soul and body; And we go drifting, drifting—she is laughing— Outcasts of God, into the deep's abysm. Myth and Romance Being a Book of Verses The further we revert into the "deep backward and abysm of time" towards the early history of the world, the more pronounced and overt is this indulgence in broad personal invective and sarcastic strictures. English Satires Those who have leisure to explore the history of the past, to peer into the dark backward and abysm of Time, must of necessity become smitten with a kind of sad and kindly cynicism. Side Lights The drama does not begin until the third act: the two first are yawning abysms of sheer dulness. Old Scores and New Readings Discussions on Music & Certain Musicians Latencies in the backward and abysm of inheritance that would not have stirred under a less tremendous stimulus stirred under this, grew, and pushed aside the gay and even life that might have been. Lewis Rand But perhaps the finer task of our humanity is to turn our eyes calmly into 'the dark backward and abysm' not of time, but of the eternal present on whose pinnacle we stand. Aspects of Literature But whereso pride and licence have their fling, Be sure that state will one day lose her course And founder in the abysm. The Seven Plays in English Verse So died that hour, and fell into the abysm Of forms outworn, but not to be outworn, Who never hail'd another worth the Life That made it sensible. The Suppressed Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson What abysms of woe The word reveals, what frenzy, what Despair! The Bed-Book of Happiness And she said the oddest things in the most unconventional way, skirting sometimes unfathomable abysms of thought, where I had hardly the courage to set foot. The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce — Volume 2: In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians It may be God's first work is but to breathe And fill the abysm with drifts of shining air That slowly, slowly curdle into worlds. Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume II. For this fortune wanted root In the core of God's abysm,— Was a weed of self and schism; And ever the Daemonic Love Is the ancestor of wars And the parent of remorse. Poems Household Edition He turned in his saddle and looked over low peaks and cañons, rivers and abysms, black peaks smiting the fiery blue, far, far, to the dim azure mountains on the horizon. The Splendid Idle Forties Stories of Old California The low gurgling of the wonder-working stream might be heard issuing from the depths of the dark abysm. A Peep into Toorkisthhan Thomas Roch places himself behind the second trestle as the cruiser passes on to the surface of the abysm in which she will in turn soon be swallowed up. Facing the Flag 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. Balcony Stories Or— In the dark backward and abysm of time. Poetry The flabby wine-skin of his brain Yields to some pathologic strain, And voids from its unstored abysm The driblet of an aphorism. The Devil's Dictionary They take their lord and cast him into this abysm and this filth. The High History of the Holy Graal He felt himself falling deep into an abysm of space, then suddenly caught up and set among the stars of heaven. The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies His voice dropped, and he seemed to drop too, into some abysm of thought. Balcony Stories One end awaits for all that mortal be; Pride and despair shall find a common grave: The Yang-tse-kiang renders wave and wave To mingle with the abysms of the sea. A Lute of Jade : selections from the classical poets of China Who are you that you dare to descend wingless into the abysms of my soul, that you can smile away my torture and my suffocation? The Indian Lily and Other Stories How many great events, in which those two men were to be concerned, were still in the "abysm of time," as we sat listening to them at Admiral Maxse's dinner-table!--Clémenceau, A Writer's Recollections — Volume 2 He asks Miranda what she can remember of her early life, and reaches magical words: "What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time?" The Man Shakespeare Flee to the dark abysm with all your fading flowers, One rose that none may pluck, within my heart I hold. Poems Yea, this right to us, in dark abysm and backward Of ages it befel: None shall wrong mine office, tho' in nether regions And sunless dark I dwell. The House of Atreus But I dare not jump, for the ice must not crumble lest an abysm open at my feet. The Indian Lily and Other Stories "Four years," said Andrew looking into the dark backward and abysm of time. The Mountebank Only the eyes lived; abysms through which the boy gazed down to behold the last nicker of a drowning soul. The Gentleman A Romance of the Sea This will give some idea of the abysm of time that lies between us and the skin-clad men that lived here in olden days. Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia They were not particularly fair here; the weather was rough and cloudy, in keeping with abysms and mountain precipices. Recollections of My Childhood and Youth One cliff is like another in its jagged nakedness; one abysm dark and empty as another. The Indian Lily and Other Stories When they were together in this intimate silence, their spirits were freed from all bondage, free to rise, to leap upwards out of the encircling abysm of things. Together Like a bowl of boiling milk, the abysm of space is overflowing with light. Jean-Christophe Journey's End This most miserable of all the meagre philosophies that have ever existed came to grief, and dragged down with it into the abysm of discredit, the systems of Fichte and Schelling which had preceded it. The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Religion, a Dialogue, Etc. Splendid wooden bridges were thrown over it, with abysms on both sides. Recollections of My Childhood and Youth And through all these awful years of incessant warfare I was now lifted up on a wave of victory to heights of dazzling glory, and now plunged down into the abysm of defeat. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 02 — Fiction The wells of the abysms were broken, and the cataracts of heaven were opened, that is to say the clouds, and it rained on the earth forty days and forty nights. Bible Stories and Religious Classics As I peer into the dark abysm of things gone by, many places that seemed at first indistinct, grow clearer; but many more must remain impenetrable. Hawthorne and His Circle Our homeless, irrelevant, tiny steamer seemed to hang between two abysms. Letters from America "The dark backward and abysm of space?" she repeated. The Cardinal's Snuff-Box But they had moments of fearful suspense as they sank slowly down into the black abysm. The Life of Sir Richard Burton He could have fancied that the world had sunken in the night, far below its proper level, into some close, thick abysm of its own atmosphere. Marius the Epicurean — Volume 2 Consider how quickly all things vanish away—their bodily structure into the general substance; the very memory of them into that great gulf and abysm of past thoughts. Marius the Epicurean — Volume 1 He plays his old game of constitutional tricks in face of abysms and the dreadful upheavals of the chimerical and unexpected. The Memoirs of Victor Hugo “Where, or at what time, was I ever innocent?” he cries, and hears no answer from “the dark backward and abysm” of the pre-natal life. Adventures Among Books We have previously referred to the influence of the Byzantine civilization in transmitting the learning of antiquity across the abysm of the dark age. A History of Science — Volume 2 Do you think that such as you and I can be lost in the aching abysms of space? When the World Shook; being an account of the great adventure of Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot The whole process of politics which bulks so solidly in history seemed for that clairvoyant instant but a froth of petty motives above abysms of indifference.... The New Machiavelli The row of kings is plunging into the abysm. The Memoirs of Victor Hugo The flooring of these colossal garrets has crevices in it through which one can look down into the abysm, the church, below. The Memoirs of Victor Hugo |
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