abysm

Example Sentences

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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.

From BBC • Dec. 23, 2014

As against Europe's dark backward and abysm of wars and revolutions, America was still a New World with its own democratic New Order still evolving.

From Time Magazine Archive

The enemies of the Axis had one little glimmer of consolation in last week's abysm.

From Time Magazine Archive

Some time, some place in the dark backward and abysm of time, the first "living" thing was created, and evolution began.

From Time Magazine Archive

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?

From Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations by Powys, John Cowper