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Definition of Abysses
1. abyss [n] - See also: abyss
Lexicographical Neighbors of Abysses
Literary usage of Abysses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Quarterly Review by Robert Walsh (1835)
"Lamenting Jordan lift his billows hoarse, That with sublimer wo and plaint do
weep I have not heard, from his abysses deep Than that wherewith the Prophet ..."
2. Letters from Abroad to Kindred at Home by Catharine Maria Sedgwick (1841)
"... others encumbered with riches, some treading on the confines of Heaven, others
in the abysses of sin, and all sealed with the seal of immortality. ..."
3. The Bottom of the Sea by Léon Sonrel (1875)
"... in the Seas of the Temperate and the Frown Zones—Natural Illumination of the
Oceanic abysses. SHALL we say the play of life is pleasing to the Deity ? ..."
4. Woman in Music by George Putnam Upton (1886)
"... would again sport over the abysses of the ocean without being extinguished or
submerged in the chilling depths, adding, as the living hues were thrown ..."
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