inmost soul

I gnashed my teeth and ground them together, uttering a groan that came from my inmost soul.

If someone occasionally gives you the stink-eye when you go home at 5:30, quietly wish them the best in your deep and inmost soul, and then go home and do your best to forget about it.

I’m not so sure that these two women were seeing into your inmost soul when they disparaged your hair and called you fake; you seem convinced that they must have seen that about you because it’s just that obvious, but I’m convinced they were determined to say something unkind about you and it just happened to hit you in a sensitive spot.

By reason of these things, then, the whaling voyage was welcome; the great flood-gates of the wonder-world swung open, and in the wild conceits that swayed me to my purpose, two and two there floated into my inmost soul, endless processions of the whale, and, mid most of them all, one grand hooded phantom, like a snow hill in the air.

This was the first spiritual mercy I ever was sensible of, and being on praying ground, as soon as I recovered a little strength, and got out of bed and dressed myself, I invoked Heaven from my inmost soul, and fervently begged that God would never again permit me to blaspheme his most holy name.