Citations:abyss


 * 1) Sense 1: Hell; the bottomless pit; primeval chaos; a confined subterranean ocean.
 * Ye powers and spirits of this nethermost abyss – John Milton
 * The throne is darkness, in the abyss of light – John Dryden
 * And when you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you – Friedrich Nietzsche
 * 1) Sense 2: (frequently figuratively) A bottomless or unfathomed depth, gulf, or chasm; hence, any deep, immeasurable; any void space.
 * The abysses of metaphysical theology – Thomas Macaulay
 * In unfathomable abysses of disgrace – Edmund Burke


 * 1818 – Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * I feel as if I were walking on the edge of a precipice, towards which thousands are crowding and endeavouring to plunge me into the abyss.