It is hard for women to resist the temptation of jewelries and women's jewelry box is like an abysm which is never full.    From Wordnik.com.  [TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com] Reference

Showing in the blue abysm vistas luminously strange.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Voyage of Magellan] Reference

Why, it would be the very depth and abysm of cowardice to leave here.    From Wordnik.com.  [Starship]

In looking down the "dark backward and abysm of time," to the period when.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860] Reference

His voice dropped, and he seemed to drop too, into some abysm of thought.    From Wordnik.com.  [Balcony Stories] Reference

It first opened my eyes to antiquity, the "dark backward and abysm of time.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Surprised by Joy]

It drags itself out of the dark abysm of pish, and crawls insanely up to the topmost pinnacle of posh.    From Wordnik.com.  [Asher Smith: Refudiate is the New Normalcy] Reference

The low gurgling of the wonder-working stream might be heard issuing from the depths of the dark abysm.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Peep into Toorkisthhan] Reference

For today's younger audience, the 1960s and 1970s are so far lost in the backward abysm of time that they're more or less Victorian.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2010-07-01] Reference

Lamartine, in a rapturous strain, had congratulated himself on having been the instrument of saving his friend from the abysm of unbelief.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866] Reference

Flee to the dark abysm with all your fading flowers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems] Reference

"The dark backward and abysm of space?" she repeated.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cardinal's Snuff-Box] Reference

Cast thy mind into the dark backward and abysm of Time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blogrunner] Reference

"This is the great abysm between Abraham and Dives," said he.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Visions of the Sleeping Bard] Reference

They take their lord and cast him into this abysm and this filth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The High History of the Holy Graal] Reference

Like a bowl of boiling milk, the abysm of space is overflowing with light.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jean-Christophe Journey's End] Reference

"Four years," said Andrew looking into the dark backward and abysm of time.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mountebank] Reference

But I dare not jump, for the ice must not crumble lest an abysm open at my feet.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Indian Lily and Other Stories] Reference

'I shall never count an iota against you "in the dark backward and abysm of Time.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Diana of the Crossways — Complete] Reference

One cliff is like another in its jagged nakedness; one abysm dark and empty as another.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Indian Lily and Other Stories] Reference

But they had moments of fearful suspense as they sank slowly down into the black abysm.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Sir Richard Burton] Reference

The sylph-like ease with which the Countess floated over this foul abysm was miraculous.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evan Harrington — Complete] Reference

That he had swum some rapid stream? or plunged over a precipice -- into some dark abysm?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse] Reference

Backward and abysm of time, 42. mutters, 246. turn backward O time, 668. yesterdays look, 307.    From Wordnik.com.  [Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature] Reference

It drags itself out of a dark abysm … of pish, and crawls insanely up the topmost pinnacle of posh.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! Buzz US: Top Stories] Reference

A horseman dashed to the front; and, poising his horse upon the very edge, looked down into the abysm.    From Wordnik.com.  [The White Chief A Legend of Northern Mexico] Reference

Page view page image: glided to the place, and was soon lost to apprehension in the abysm of a cold pie.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fun-jottings, or, Laughs I have taken a pen to] Reference

Maitland, had known in the dark backwards and abysm of time, merely drew from him the comment: "Homely brute!".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Brass Bowl] Reference

He felt himself falling deep into an abysm of space, then suddenly caught up and set among the stars of heaven.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies] Reference

We could see nothing in the dark abysm that frowned below; and we waited till the light should break forth again.    From Wordnik.com.  [The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse] Reference

It is easy to see how such conditions profoundly limit the development of organic being in the abysm of the ocean.    From Wordnik.com.  [Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography] Reference

This will give some idea of the abysm of time that lies between us and the skin-clad men that lived here in olden days.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia] Reference

Also I have dolven in the deep earth, and have brought forth a fountain out of the abysm, and thou sayst I should stop it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Legend, vol. 2] Reference

Peering again into the dark backward and abysm, it seems that the two rejuvenated gossips trundled up on Lexington Avenue to Alfred.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pipefuls] Reference

"Where, or at what time, was I ever innocent?" he cries, and hears no answer from "the dark backward and abysm" of the pre-natal life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adventures Among Books] Reference

Ah, what a proud height it was upon which I stood that night only to be plunged the next day into an abysm of sorrow correspondingly deep.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of a Slave. A Realistic Revelation of a Social Relation of Slave Times--Hitherto Unwritten--From the Pen of One Who Has Felt Both the Lash and the Caress of a Mistress] Reference