Noun, : My youthful hopes are in the limbo of lost dreams. From Dictionary.com.
I think there are still pieces of my Money records in online limbos and lurking on my hard drive. From Wordnik.com. [Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Quickbooks — Steadily Worse Each and Every Year] Reference
Hollywood is already in production with more films to further help people in awkward relationship limbos. From Wordnik.com. [Tom McCaffrey: Movie Titles That Convey Your Feelings For You] Reference
She slowed the car so she could enjoy the tangle of thick-trunked mahogany trees, sable palms, seagrapes, and gumbo limbos. From Wordnik.com. [Hair Raiser]
Reformation, sought out new limbos and new hells wherein they might include our books also within the number of their damned. From Wordnik.com. [Areopagitica] Reference
Pulsing with an emotion they had never before known it to show, the morel forced on them pictures stored in their own limbos of unconscious memory. From Wordnik.com. [HOTHOUSE]
In various parts of the world we find that children, at death, go to special limbos, purgatories, or heavens, and the folk-lore of the subject must be read at length in the mythological treatises. From Wordnik.com. [The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day] Reference
A paddleboarder meets a whale, and a boy on skates limbos under a car. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph Major News] Reference
Voltaire, by a touch of modernism, has rescued it or half-rescued it from this most terrible of limbos. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Arnold] Reference
He limbos right over on to his back to avoid the third of them, but leaves his bat poking up like a periscope. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
Just when you think the trolls have set the stupidity bar as low as it can go, one of them just limbos right under it. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress] Reference
There's going to have to be a marked turn around / sell-off, or the company fails for good; eternal limbos just don't cut it. From Wordnik.com. [Dealbreaker] Reference
"No, you see whilst you have been growing old Addison and I have been stuck in the non ageing limbos that are un-played and towniedom.". From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
Any one who, like ourselves, has wandered about in these solitudes contiguous to our faubourgs, which may be designated as the limbos of. From Wordnik.com. [Les Misérables] Reference
That means that, while a presidential transition offers many limbos, none is quite so stark as the expected change in the approach, method and technique of foreign policy that will come with the inauguration of on Tuesday. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! News: Top Stories] Reference
That means that, while a presidential transition offers many limbos, none is quite so stark as the expected change in the approach, method and technique of foreign policy that will come with the inauguration of Barack Obama on Tuesday. From Wordnik.com. [WTOP / Business / Biz Stories] Reference
A psychologist might make much out of the subject by discussing concentration sublimated, human senses coordinating sight and sound on the instant, a sort of sixth sense which must be passed on into the limbos of guesswork as instinct. From Wordnik.com. [Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916] Reference
They become part of the experiment. between West Palm Beach and Miami, nearly a dozen scientists have planted trees like pond apples and gumbo limbos, sunk tiny wells and tracked the effect of water currents on erosion and soil build up. From Wordnik.com. [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference
Souls which have fallen to the bottom of all possible misfortune, unhappy men lost in the lowest of those limbos at which no one any longer looks, the reproved of the law, feel the whole weight of this human society, so formidable for him who is without, so frightful for him who is beneath, resting upon their heads. From Wordnik.com. [Les Misérables] Reference
A confused recollection, an indistinct memory remained to her of stretches and spaces of country, of vague places, of those worlds and limbos to which sick people go during those last nights which are detaching them from earth, and from whence they return, surprised, with the dizziness and stupor of the Infinite still upon them, as if in the dream they have forgotten they had heard the first flapping of the wings of Death. From Wordnik.com. [Renée Mauperin] Reference
"rehabilitation" camps, legal limbos where they lack access to lawyers or outside communications. From Wordnik.com. [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference
But that a book, in worse condition than a peccant soul, should be to stand before a jury ere it be born to the world, and undergo yet in darkness the judgment of Radamanth and his colleags, ere it can pass the ferry backward into light, was never heard before, till that mysterious iniquity, provoked and troubled at the first entrance of Reformation, sought out new limbos and new hells wherein they might include our books also within the number of their damned. From Wordnik.com. [Plea for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing] Reference
But that a book in worse condition than a peccant soul, should be to stand before a jury ere it be borne to the world, and undergo yet in darkness the judgment of Radamanth and his colleagues, 28 ere it can pass the ferry backward into light, was never heard before, till that mysterious iniquity29 provoked and troubled at the first entrance of reformation, sought out new limbos and new hells, wherein they might include our books also within the number of their damned. From Wordnik.com. [Areopagitica: A Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing: Paras 1-19] Reference
There are the characters who never might or could have been -- the characters who, by limp and flaccid drawing; by the lumping together of "incompossibilities"; by slavish following of popular models; by equally slavish, though rather less ignoble, carrying out of supposed rules; by this, that, and the other want or fault, have deprived themselves of the fictitious right to live, or to have lived, though they occupy the most ghastly of all limbos and the most crowded shelves of all circulating libraries. From Wordnik.com. [A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century] Reference
But limbos large for unbelievers left. From Wordnik.com. [The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes] Reference
Of wild chimeras, limbos -- PURGATORIES. From Wordnik.com. [Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3)] Reference
Kingston, -- American Prejudice in the "limbos," -- "Amalgamation!". From Wordnik.com. [The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus] Reference
Any one who, like ourselves, has wandered about in these solitudes contiguous to our faubourgs, which may be designated as the limbos of Paris, has seen here and there, in the most desert spot, at the most unexpected moment, behind a meagre hedge, or in the corner of a lugubrious wall, children grouped tumultuously, fetid, muddy, dusty, ragged, dishevelled, playing hide-and-seek, and crowned with corn-flowers. From Wordnik.com. [Les Miserables, Volume III, Marius] Reference
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