Do thou only, asking divine favour with peace-offerings, be bounteous in welcome and draw out reasons for delay, while the storm rages at sea and Orion is wet, and his ships are shattered and the sky unvoyageable. '. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference
Personality, "which offers a rich mine of suggestion," it would seem that the shells to be picked up on the shore of the ocean of truth will ever become scantier, and the agnostics of the future will gaze forth ever more hopelessly on that gloomy and unvoyageable sea. From Wordnik.com. [The Life Radiant] Reference
In itself, it is a great and travailing ocean, unsounded, unvoyageable, an eternal mystery to man; or, let us say, it is a monstrous and impassable mountain, one side of which, and a few near slopes and foothills, we can dimly study with these mortal eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Lay Morals] Reference
We Protestants know better: we understand the impossibility of supposing such a narrow and local reference in orbs, so transcendently vast as those composing the constellation -- orbs removed from each other by such unvoyageable worlds of space, and having, in fact, no real reference to each other more than to any other heavenly bodies whatsoever. From Wordnik.com. [Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers] Reference
Nor this unvoyageable gulf obscure. From Wordnik.com. [Paradise Lost] Reference
Here standing, with the unvoyageable sky. From Wordnik.com. [THE EXCURSION BOOK FIFTH] Reference
366: Nor this unvoyageable Gulf obscure. From Wordnik.com. [Paradise Lost (1667)] Reference
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