Word: abysses
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...book* by romantic, poetic, enthusiastic, sparkling, dauntless, bubbling, impetuous, adventurous, dramatic, enthralling, etc. Playboy Richard Halliburton begins with a "Crash! The lightning in a rage split the writhing firmament from Thessaly to the Cyclades in one blazing, blinding glare. Streaks of fire burst into the inky darkness, inflaming the abyss about me and lashing at the clouds that hurtled past...
...presented for Parliamentary approval. ... It will depend upon the two chambers whether the results of ten months of labor are to be consolidated in the budget, or whether all the work which we have accomplished will be rendered useless. . . . Should that occur we will fall back again into the abyss from which we have climbed,* and we will never be able to climb out a second time...
...Seven are the authors of all human woe. They are in the sky and the abyss; they rise in the west, they loom in the east; their immensity fills heaven and earth; they grind men as men grind grain...
...Webster was going to speak on Palmerston and the Eastern Question at 10 o'clock this morning in Harvard 3. When he tried to think what he really knew about Palmerston, the humble writer of this column found himself at the edge of a void, or rather an abyss in which he could see only one object. This was an image of a man who somewhat resembled the Vagabond's great-grandfather attired in the traditional costume of John Bull. This was his childhood impression of the great British prime minister; it is the impression which still rests with...
...Denver Post's free amusement program, ladies and gentlemen,* will be a thrilling leap for death by 75 world-famous Autoarabs, the tumbling Gas Anns, the Leaping Lenas of motordom's circus world." Army tanks were obtained to haul many battered motor hulks to an abyss on Castle Mountain. Throngs of Denverites scrambled thither to see the hurtling-into-space, the drop, the crash, the wreckage. A block party on Champa Street (outside the Post offices), with 21 bombs fired, bands playing, revelry-to signalize the opening of a tunnel through the nearby Rocky Mountains...