Citations:deep


 * 1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress:
 * I saw then in my dream, so far as this valley reached, there was on the right hand a very deep ditch; that ditch is it into which the blind have led the blind in all ages, and have both there miserably perished. [Ps. 69:14,15] Again, behold, on the left hand, there was a very dangerous quag, into which, if even a good man falls, he can find no bottom for his foot to stand on.
 * So he saw more perfectly the ditch that was on the one hand, and the mire that was on the other; also how narrow the way was which led betwixt them both; also now he saw the hobgoblins, and satyrs, and dragons of the pit, but all afar off, (for after break of day, they came not nigh;) yet they were discovered to him, according to that which is written, "He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out to light the shadow of death." [Job 12:22]
 * He, therefore, that went before, (Vain-confidence by name), not seeing the way before him, fell into a deep pit [Isa. 9:16], which was on purpose there made, by the Prince of those grounds, to catch vain-glorious fools withal, and was dashed in pieces with his fall.


 * 1843, Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol:
 * They were succeeded by a clanking noise, deep down below; as if some person were dragging a heavy chain over the casks in the wine-merchant's cellar.
 * The house fronts looked black enough, and the windows blacker, contrasting with the smooth white sheet of snow upon the roofs, and with the dirtier snow upon the ground; which last deposit had been ploughed up in deep furrows by the heavy wheels of carts and waggons; furrows that crossed and re-crossed each other hundreds of times where the great streets branched off; and made intricate channels, hard to trace in the thick yellow mud and icy water.
 * Here, the flickering of the blaze showed preparations for a cosy dinner, with hot plates baking through and through before the fire, and deep red curtains, ready to be drawn to shut out cold and darkness.

"deep debtor"

 * 1810, The Gospel Treasury ...: Biography:
 * I could wish to live and die a deep, deep debtor to mercy; and that none of my works should ever be mentioned but as manifestations of mercy, and as means of promoting the work of mercy in the welfare of others.
 * 1852, James Sheridan Knowles, George Lovell: A Novel, page 155:
 * "But I am your debtor," she persisted, "your deep, deep debtor! And such I shall remain to the end of my life — praying for you and blessing you!"
 * 2010, Michael Herbert Fisher, The Inordinately Strange Life of Dyce Sombre: Victorian Anglo-Indian MP and &apos;chancery Lunatic&apos;:
 * He occasionally attended Anglican services, especially when his former teacher (and deep debtor) Reverend Henry Fisher presided.