Adjective : the nethermost depths of the ocean. From Dictionary.com.
Kelham was suffering the tortures of the nethermost pit down Assouan way. From Wordnik.com. [The Hawk of Egypt] Reference
A scoundrel from the topmost hair of his head, to the nethermost atom of his heel. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit] Reference
A core more fiery than sun force bloomed and burst across the nethermost dark of the void. From Wordnik.com. [Shadowfane]
From the topmost hair of his shocky head to the nethermost sole of his tough little feet, Bootsey Biggs was a Boy. From Wordnik.com. [Tin-Types Taken in the Streets of New York A Series of Stories and Sketches Portraying Many Singular Phases of Metropolitan Life] Reference
When the nest on the nethermost branch of the Moreton Bay ash is packed with hungry brood, his industry is exhilarating. From Wordnik.com. [The Confessions of a Beachcomber] Reference
"This should be deja vu for Melissa," jokes Joan, in reference to the daughter glimpsing the mother's nethermost region. From Wordnik.com. [Mama mia! It's Rivers overload in superfluous 'Joan & Melissa'] Reference
They are entwined in nethermost darkness, the willer with the willed, and in an instant (FIAT!) light shall flood the world. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
During the same Consuls, a bloody assassination was perpetrated in the nethermost Spain, by a boor in the territory of Termes. From Wordnik.com. [The Reign of Tiberius, Out of the First Six Annals of Tacitus; With His Account of Germany, and Life of Agricola] Reference
Poor little Herman Amdursky was selected for the Living Skeleton, because of the spindle-like character of his nethermost limbs. From Wordnik.com. [Hepsey Burke] Reference
His girl love, the girl who was like a pure star shining in God's heaven compared with a flame from -- yes, from the nethermost pit. From Wordnik.com. [Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden] Reference
The basket bore me swiftly down through the various dream sets and into the nethermost regions, bringing me finally to Hell's anteroom. From Wordnik.com. [Question Quest]
Colve sentenced English post rider John Sharpe to “the inner and nethermost Dungeon” for four days, and banished him for ten years. From Wordnik.com. [The King's Best Highway] Reference
Heraclitus, that it is after the manner of the turning of a boat, when the concave seems uppermost to our sight, and the convex nethermost. From Wordnik.com. [Essays and Miscellanies] Reference
Vasu, though he performed a hundred sacrifices like a second Vasava, was sent to the nethermost regions, for making a single false statement. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18] Reference
The source of magic was the Demon X (A/N) TH, who resided in the nethermost cave and whose thoughts were in the form of fluxes through the cave. From Wordnik.com. [Question Quest]
Obviously the law enforcement system was not prepared to deal with perversions from the transcosmic gulfs of the nethermost craters of the underworld. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Demonkeeping]
It goeth before a fall, but it does not cease to exist after the fall; and no matter how deep down in the mire of iniquity you search, you will find pride nethermost. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals] Reference
And the frightened kings and the common soldiers, no longer relying upon one another, of that army, deprived of Devavrata, seemed to sink into the nethermost region of the world. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7] Reference
Back to its nethermost caves retreated the bellowing ocean. From Wordnik.com. [Evangeline] Reference
"'S perfectly all right, darling!" reassured the nethermost figure blithely. From Wordnik.com. [Quin] Reference
The mercury in the tubes at the trader's store had sunk to the nethermost depths. From Wordnik.com. [Under Fire] Reference
They are entwined in nethermost darkness, the willer with the willed, and in an instant. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
It makes one want to tear the whole world to pieces, and sink South Africa in the nethermost ocean. From Wordnik.com. [The Rhodesian] Reference
She consigned the man, who, after all, was the author of her phenomenal success, to nethermost oblivion. From Wordnik.com. [Black Oxen] Reference
She felt that some mystery lay beneath it all, and vowed that she would fathom it to its nethermost depths. From Wordnik.com. [Secret des Champdoce. English] Reference
Continuing downward, the karlon plumbed the nethermost pit of the ocean and came to rest upon the bottom, stirring up a murk of ooze. From Wordnik.com. [The Skylark of Space] Reference
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