abysm

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.

"Foreign aggressors broke China's land and sea defenses hundreds of times, plunging the Chinese nation into the abysm of calamity," Xi added, calling on people not to forget the "history of humiliation" and strengthen the borders, especially at sea.

Bonelandby Alan Garner Fifty years is a long time between books, yet it seems right and natural that Garner should need five decades to gyre back round to where he began, the legend-haunted landscape of Alderley Edge, to be able to follow his story deeper into the human psyche and the dark abysm of time.

Delicate Ariel, sea nymphs ring the knell...in the dark backward and abysm of time...”

In the dark ÿbackwardÿ and abysm of time.