How To Use Abyss In A Sentence
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When he looks at you like that, you feel like you're standing at the verge of a bottomless abyss, a void so deep that it has its own mystical gravitation.
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Season of the Inundation: Sweet, black silt mingled with holy myrrh, melilot, hyssop, spikenard, balsam, cedar, and a hint of melting snow from the Abyssinian hills.
Thor's Day
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What are the possibilities and risks of according spirituality some therapeutic value for those on the edge of the abyss of self-destruction?
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The country is sinking/plunging into an abyss of violence and lawlessness.
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The near-constant depth of the abyssal sea floor indicates that the lithosphere thickens to roughly 100 km in 70 million years, but then ceases to grow.
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The presence of gold and silver in your portfolio will insure that you will emerge from the abyss with your capital intact.
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And another home defeat left them staring the relegation abyss in the face.
The Sun
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Exhausted and semi-conscious, my peripheral awareness of a sort of beige abyss was occasionally punctuated by explosions of extreme color.
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No bits of light or matter can climb out of these deep gravitational abysses.
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The abyss of ethnographic otherness has been momentarily bridged.
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On either side, cliffs tower upwards with dark cloud banks masking their peaks; small waterfalls cascade down the abyss and onto the windscreen.
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The bloodhounds, known as the seducer, the libertine, the procurer, are upon her track; she is trembling on the frightful brink of the abyss.
Searchlights on Health The Science of Eugenics
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But Portugal are teetering on the edge of the financial abyss while Spain are not far behind.
The Sun
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The best way to carry out this enormous project is to focus on personal, family and neighborhood levels; several GOLA units may assign to themselves the task of examining whether remote villages and hamlets have been taken in charge by locally established GOLA units; if not, GOLA units established by Oromos in big cities must take care of the remote villages´ populations and of their experience of the Abyssinian tyranny.
American Chronicle
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Long-tem change in benthopelagic fish abundance in the abyssal northeast Pacific Ocean.
Bottom-up control
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Then suddenly he felt a blinding hit at the base of his skull, which sent him back into a black abyss.
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Even going through it online I learned that, while ‘abysm’ (a lovely word) has fallen out of use in favour of ‘abyss’, we tend to use ‘abysmal’ rather than ‘abyssal’.
In praise of a reference book: MWDEU
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Bathyal is defined as pertaining to the ocean bottom between the sublittoral and abyssal zones - from depths of approximately 200 to 400 m.
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There is an abyss between such rhetoric and the world we actually live in, an abyss called power.
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What an infinitesimal fraction of time's fathomless abyss is assigned to each of us!
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These valuations have opened an abyss between person and person over which an Achilles of free thought could not leap, shutter how he may.
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The foot, the bottom, the abyss,[Sentence dictionary] that beckons for the third consecutive season.
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Far from being on the edge of the abyss, we could be on the brink of a long boom.
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Mankind, divided and confused, still hesitates, vacillates like a sleepwalker on the edge of an abyss.
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If she were such an abyss of insincerity as to dissemble distrust under such frankness, she must at least be more subtle than to bring her doubts to her rival for solution.
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In the Milky Way, near the Southern Cross, occurs a terrible circular abyss, the Coal Sack.
The Blue Lagoon: a romance
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There appears to me to be insuperable objections to this view: on the other hand, I can hardly believe, in this and in some other cases, that these marginal crateriform mountains are merely the basal remnants of immense volcanos, of which the summits either have been blown off, or swallowed up in subterranean abysses.
Chapter XXI
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Obama's policies are certainly worthy of objurgation, especially his grievous misjudgment at the end of 2009 to cast an additional 30,000 troops into the Afghan abyss in support of a failing counterinsurgency (COIN) strategy.
Michael Hughes: Bush Created A No-Win Situation in Afghanistan for Obama
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Without taking this risk, the potential for our prophetic communication role to fall into the abyss of irrelevance is very great.
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In one place, His Eminence speaks of the way in which the term "preconciliar" has been used as an insult "as if an abyss should be created between the "before" and the "after" the Council" and then says:Today, thanks to the Motu Proprio, this situation is changing notably.
Archive 2009-05-01
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As her heartbeat slows, her mind settles on the same thoughts that have haunted her for weeks: her desire to understand the order and purpose of things, especially the ambiguity of death and the mysterious abyss between matter and spirit.
The Impulse of Breathing
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At fifty meters and change, the submersible was a mid-sized Falnari vessel built for touring and very little else—certainly not for teetering on the edge of an abyss.
Distant Shores
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We were really staring into the abyss.
Times, Sunday Times
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No one ever goes to the abyss because it's too wide and deep and creepy and cold.
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The abyss: Dante's hell is formed in the shape of an inverted cone whose point is at the center of the earth, which is the furthest place from God who is in the heavens.
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The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. Honore de Balzac
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He often combined his talents, whether it were to soothe the weary souls at the local pub or fell an ice dragon in the depths of the abyssal caverns.
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To me, death was a mysterious, dark, horrible thing that would catch you and drag you down into a deep abyss, away from everything and everyone you loved.
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Well, for those of you not auditorily inclined, Wendy Delmater of Abyss & Apex has transcribed the recording and published it in the latest issue of A&A.
John Joseph Adams » 2007 » April
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All I could see was that face, smeared in jellylike feces, the blank eyes sightlessly staring into the abyss above.
The Curse of the Wendigo
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And so to see a club like York City, once a byword for financial prudence and parsimony, to be staring over the abyss is a mortal blow.
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The voice of the sea is seductive, never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander n abysses of solitude.
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Admittedly, there is a huge abyss between thought and words.
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Here's a snip from a feature in New York Magazine about freaked-out workers on Wall Street who gazed into the abyss with a closer view than the rest of us, and made survival plans:
Boing Boing
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Bathyal is defined as pertaining to the ocean bottom between the sublittoral and abyssal zones - from depths of approximately 200 to 400 m.
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Some persons have made quite important collections, one of the most noted being that of Menelik II, the Abyssinian king, who possessed upwards of two thousand locks, varying from light to dark, and from fine to coarse, each lock being labelled with the date and particulars of its acquisition.
Chats on Household Curios
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It knows how to respond to the "diablerie" of the abysses with a reciprocal gesture.
The Complex Vision
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Connolly drags you screaming to the edge of the abyss, then calmly pushes you in.
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As Kant was to write, however, as if to ventriloquize Locke's own anxiety about the "violence" (Essay 2: 161) of the mind's tendency to find alternate paths of cognition, "The point of excess for the imagination ... is like an abyss in which it fears to lose itself
Introduction
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The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. Honore de Balzac
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An apocalyptic storm provided a perfect backdrop as the eurozone stared into the abyss yesterday.
The Sun
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Deep sea animals will heave themselves up from the abyssal depths, even though it's fatal to them, if they hear a rumor that you will be passing overhead in a boat.
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The abyss between the generic business and the tight, small world of the famous classified growths is vast.
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Every circumstance in church life offers an opportunity for the forces of the abyss to disrupt and destroy.
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The lack of the qualities which are indispensable to any one of these may, and probably will, prove an abyss deep enough to ingulf the largest commercial ship afloat.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861
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And in the rivers, where the deceivers, fraudful both in heart and word, had shown unto the saint a deep abyss instead of a safe ford, passed he over safely, having first blessed the passage, and changed the abyss into a ford; and the ford which before was pervious unto all changed he unto a deep abyss.
The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings
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The islands are perched at the ragged edge of the continental shelf, right before it plunges more than 2 miles down to the abyssal plain.
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It anchors itself by gaining purchase on the pitted, rough limestone, and then stretches the upper half of its body into the air of the abyss.
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This section of the proposed bill is a triumph of xenophobia over moral, legal, and economic reason - they are going off the deep end into the abyss.
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The best myrrh comes from the species Commiphora abyssinica.
An old chestnut, re-roasted
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Brandon Boyd from the murks of the sultry abyss book
SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 1050
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The country might plunge into the abyss of economic ruin.
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Matt: A sexy voice? You need to swim to the abyssal zone. The witch who took the little mermaid's voice would give you what you want.
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I keep a firm grip on my hat and stare into the blustery abyss.
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The other stood on the edge of the nest, looking down fearfully into the abyss, whither, no doubt, his bolder nest mate had flown, and calling disconsolately from time to time.
Wilderness Ways
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Abyssinia, again, the liturgy is in a language called Geez, which is no longer in use as a living tongue and is not understood.
Chosen Peoples Being the First "Arthur Davis Memorial Lecture" delivered before the Jewish Historical Society at University College on Easter-Passover Sunday, 1918/5678
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Many times while going to school have I grasped at a wall or tree to recall myself from this abyss of idealism to the reality.
The Friendship: Wordsworth and Coleridge
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In Lake Tana, which is the source of the Blue Nile in the Ethiopian Highlands, about a quarter of the nearly 65 fish species are endemic, including a loach Nemacheilus abyssinicus and 14 large cyprinid barbs.
Biological diversity in the Eastern Afromontane
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Chonyi: miraa Embu: miraa English: khat, Abyssinia tea,
Chapter 7
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I had brought a rifle with me to Abyssinia. determined to achieve my dream of hunting big game.
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The cultural abyss had grown too wide to be crossed using traditional methods.
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Season of the Inundation: Sweet, black silt mingled with holy myrrh, melilot, hyssop, spikenard, balsam, cedar, and a hint of melting snow from the Abyssinian hills.
Thor's Day
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After a gasped curse, a word that a six year old shouldn't know, she picked herself up and sprinted deeper into the dark abyss.
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He was the leadsman, that is to say, it was his business to sound the depths of the sea; he had plumbed the profound abysses of the ocean, calculated the elevation of the land and the apparent motion of the sky; he knew the exact time by looking at the sun, and he could tell from the stars how far they had travelled.
In Midsummer Days, and Other Tales
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He is a man on the edge of a mental abyss, a soul tortured by events in his past he dare not confront when sober.
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Thoughts are like an open ocean, they can either move you forward within its waves, or sink you under deep into its abyss. Anthony Liccione
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To sit movelessly there, while the car reeled recklessly on the edge of abysses, was a supreme trial of self-control.
Heart of the Blue Ridge
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We slipped into the clear, seemingly bottomless aquamarine abyss to snorkel.
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Now and then we came to rushing mountain - torrents bursting over the road; far away, ever and anon, we heard the roar of a _lauwine_ or avalanche; sometimes I looked out, and could see straight down below me a thousand feet into an abyss or on a headlong stream.
Memoirs
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January was dimming into the equally cold, bleak abyss of New England weather that was February.
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I keep a firm grip on my hat and stare into the blustery abyss.
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He padded over the living fire of the plenum, the abyss---all of it---and hardly noticed.
METAPLANETARY
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These conditions create the possibility for a new political force to arise quickly and fill the abyss between the ruling regime and popular aspirations.
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Without taking this risk, the potential for our prophetic communication role to fall into the abyss of irrelevance is very great.
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The gates of hell will crack open and demons will rise from the abyss to terrorize mortal men.
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Now, if the abyss is scary, what is scarier, what generates it, what you will find in it, or what comes from it?
SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 5974
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Aquila In nubibus Imperator literatorum, columen literarum, abyssus eruditionis, ocellus Europae, Scaliger.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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The tremendous moral power of this solitary work lies in the fact that it is a series of terrific and fascinating tableaux, embodying the idea of inflexible poetic justice impartially administered upon king and varlet, pope and beggar, oppressor and victim, projected amidst the unalterable necessities of eternity, and moving athwart the lurid abyss and the azure cope with an intense distinctness that sears the gazer's eyeballs.
The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life
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Reason says the same laws of economics that brought the market down should keep it from spiraling into the abyss.
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It anchors itself by gaining purchase on the pitted, rough limestone, and then stretches the upper half of its body into the air of the abyss.
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His decaying government descends deeper into the abyss.
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This problem with the sediment trap technique is probably restricted to the continental slope and shelf and will not occur over abyssal depths.
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They have been faced with the abyss, and it has happened too soon in their lives.
Times, Sunday Times
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He knew Abyssinia inside out, spoke Amharic, which is the principal lingo of the country, and had been drill instructor in the service of Emperor Theodore, who had particularly admired his party trick of cleaving a sheep in two (lengthwise, God help us) with a single sword-stroke.
Flashman on the March
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After yesterday's performance that abyss has got deeper.
The Sun
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China's half-forgotten second-tier cities are an abyss of longing, regret, and what-ifs.
Chi Tung: China's Second Tier: Where Accidental Tourism Happens
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The war which began four years ago in Abyssinia and Spain has developed into a world affray, but still the world does not quite know who is fighting whom or why.
War With the Blinds Down
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It rejects the name Abyssinia which is constantly given it by Arab writers.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
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Without such works of grace the world would rush even more rapidly towards the abyss.
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The dogs on the upper level are of hyenoid type, those on the lower are Abyssinian greyhounds.
History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 1 (of 12)
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Plumage characters suggest that the Abyssinian catbird is a babbler whose nearest relative may be the bush blackcap, Lioptilus nigricapillus, found in the thickets and forests of eastern South Africa.
Mystery bird: Ethiopian catbird, Parophasma galinieri
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The atom bomb and the bacterial bomb, wielded by the wicked communist or the wicked capitalist as the case may be, make Washington and the Kremlin tremble, and drive men further along the road toward the abyss.
Bertrand Russell - Nobel Lecture
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In the late twentieth century, this schism would finally open into an abyss.
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The shop clerk, a gnarled old woman with teeth blacker than the abysses of Hell, wheezed.
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It has brought us again to the edge of the abyss - the possibility of a return of stagflation.
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That said, you can see why Cameron got involved in this, the claustrophobia echoes that of The Abyss, and Clooney gives a pretty meaty performance alongside a pre-Doubt hype Viola Davis and weirdy beardy Jeremy Davies.
Top Ten Works of James Cameron | Obsessed With Film
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With equal imperception it bent down and down, closer and closer to the lake waters, murky with the samba of subaqueous weeds and the abyss.
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Season of the Inundation: Sweet, black silt mingled with holy myrrh, melilot, hyssop, spikenard, balsam, cedar, and a hint of melting snow from the Abyssinian hills.
Thor's Day
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Horses rear in terror as the young Countess enters St Germain's palace and screams as she seems to be swallowed into an abyss of darkness.
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To the top of the crumbling Gormenghastian edifice we climbed, leaned backwards over the abyss and landed a big old smacker on the legendary stone.
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The dark abyss of the mind and its complexes and obsessions must be conquered.
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An auction of Madoff family belongings held at New York's Sheraton Hotel and Towers in November arguably displayed Americans' fascination with the abyss--but the rubbernecker-bidders were also doing some good.
Marian Salzman: Reinvention, Part II
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The country is sinking/plunging into an abyss of violence and lawlessness.
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The other niggling annoyance is the relative ease with which you can knock your chums off platforms into the bottomless abyss.
The Sun
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Drawing them back from the abyss is the real challenge that confronts us.
Balloon Juice » 2005 » February
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Fr. Aluaresius Itin. de Abyssinis Herbis solum vescuntur votarii, aquis mento tenus dormiunt, &c.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Like Ignatieff, McEwan explores the abyss between middle-class lives shrouded in material comfort and the demands of sudden human suffering.
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A man couldn't slide into the abyss when she was around.
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The country is sinking/plunging into an abyss of violence and lawlessness.
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It is a similar theme - the family so dysfunctional that it is but one step from the abyss of collapse.
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Last night world leaders begged for calm to stop the stricken country sliding into the abyss.
The Sun
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May 13, 2010 at 12:02 pm oooh – wut ador……. kyoot Abyssinian kittens – pinkeye or not!
*pinkeye* iz contayjus! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
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Non procul ab insulis Hebridibus, Islandia, &c. ex parte Boreali, est maris qu鎑am miranda vorago, in quam � remotis partibus omnes vndique fluctus marini tanquam ex condicto fluunt, & recurrunt, qui in secreta natur� penetralia se ibi transfundentes, quasi in Abyssum vorantur.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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Christ is the Divine Judge, a still point in the vortex of the living and the dead, the elect levitating to eternal life, the damned descending into the dark abyss.
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This obviously attracted a better class of nautilus, and a bumper crop was viewed by the team the next day in a wonderful dive hanging over an abyssal drop-off.
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This created the abyss between the real world and the supernal world.
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Instead, we have had the usual farting around, and now here we are with 1,000 people staring into the abyss.
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He collected antique furniture, teardrop lamps, urns, even a pair of life-size bronze Abyssinians, complete with turbans and slippers.
THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
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Ahead of them was a gaping abyss.
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Before we all join the Gadarene rush headlong into financial abyss, let me tamper the enthusiasm a bit.
Alan Schram: The Obama Revolution
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See, the ice of the fiord is a turquoise, the dark pine forests are mere threads of brown; for us all abysses should be thus adorned.
Seraphita
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The word cavern does not convey any idea of this immense space; words of human tongue are inadequate to describe the discoveries of him who ventures into the deep abysses of earth.
Journey to the Interior of the Earth
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Anyone who betrays his motherland shall inevitably fall into the abyss of eternal sin and shame.
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Tracks like "Abyss of sorrow" and "Straying in the brumal ashes" reveal the dark taste of the composer, while his music perfectly express these feelings of fear.
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Alone I compassed the vault of heaven and traversed the depths of the abyss.
HANDS Across the Godhead?
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The world stared into the abyss just three years ago.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is of inferior grade, and reaches the market as "Abyssinian" coffee.
All About Coffee
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And perhaps that new glow about the city is the lost sense of pride emerging from the deep abyss it fell into.
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She found herself on the edge of an abyss.
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Civilization and the current messiah of its time, Jesus, such as Akhenaton, such as Zoraster, shall be flushed, useless, into the abyss of nihil.
Opposing same-sex marriage isn’t about hatred, not at all!
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Beyond this depth is the area known as the abyssal zone.
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Expeditions were sent to Abyssinia to ascertain the cause of the inundation of the Nile.
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An abyss separates those who have served and sacrificed their blood for our freedom and those of us who have reaped the benefit.
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While Tralee has the habit of going to the edge of the abyss and then pulling back dramatically, financially-troubled projects in the town are giving the area a very negative image.
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Once I was passing along the side of a deep abyss that seemed to spiral down forever and a strong wind started to blow, as if it were trying to push me in.
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The term was a pure invention of Abyssinian Bruce who was well aware of the unfact he was propagating, but his inordinate vanity and self-esteem, contrasting so curiously with many noble qualities, especially courage and self-reliance, tempted him to this and many other a traveller's tale.
Arabian nights. English
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He hit out at "pleasure-seeking" officials who had fallen into an "abyss of luxury and corruption".
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There are seven movements, the first six slow, sparely scored, and pregnant with anticipation before the finale explodes into a furious fugal dash to the abyss.
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Translucent vase resting in a corner; soft, blazoning rose floating inside — thin blue light wavered everything in the living room — a grainy leaf turned in the murk, the rose rolled in its oval abyss.
Carolina Grüber: I
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'When you catch him he'll be wearing a double-breasted suit. 'to its abyssal low.
There's something wrong with this super-duper Coke machine
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Sideways will speak to anyone who has ever thought themselves a bit of a failure or gazed into the abyss between the mountain of their ambitions and the slag heap of their actual achievements.
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A new event, for every thing was an _event_ to wretches to whom the world was reduced to the narrow space of a few toises, and for whom the winds and waves contended in their fury as they floated above the abyss; an event happened which diverted our minds from the horrors of our situation.
Perils and Captivity Comprising The sufferings of the Picard family after the shipwreck of the Medusa, in the year 1816; Narrative of the captivity of M. de Brisson, in the year 1785; Voyage of Madame Godin along the river of the Amazons, in the year 1770
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The abandonment of the inconsiderate scheme, initiated in obedience to a religious agitation and far too daring for a statesman of Lord Salisbury's nervelessness, having drawn Italy into such difficulties as the result of her obedience to his call, the least that Crispi could expect was that he would be supported by all the moral if not by the military power of England, whose influence in Abyssinia was very great.
The Autobiography of a Journalist
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With the deepest seas in Indonesia and islands jutting up from abyssal depths, this is truly spectacular diving second to none.
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The two are not coactive, but the Evil is, so to speak, the only activity invading the passive sphere or abyss of
Christian Doctrine of Sin
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Christianity, that of Abyssinia is the only one which still adheres to the Mosaic rites.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Adult male Ethiopian black-headed siskin, Serinus nigriceps, also known as the Ethiopian siskin or (African/Abyssinian) black-headed siskin, or the black-headed serin, photographed at Bale Mountains, Ethiopia (Africa).
Mystery bird: Abyssinian siskin, Serinus nigriceps
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And it felt as if leukaemia was nudging me towards the edge of the abyss.
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Forest birds include green ibis Mesembrinibis cayennensis (local Mount Kenya race), Ayre's hawk eagle Hieraaetus dubius, Abyssinian long-eared owl Asio abyssinicus, scaly francolin Francolinus squamatus, Ruppell's robin-chat Cossypha semirufa, and numerous sunbirds (Nectariniidae).
Mount Kenya National Park and National Forest, Kenya
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Bushnell stood on the rim of the canyon, with the rocky abyss behind him.
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Another species like it is called the Abyssinian hornbill.
Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa
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Hell may be eternal, but a modern hell would be altogether different from the Florentine abyss.
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Abyssinian" Bruce had no doubt that "large trees or plants of coral spread everywhere over the bottom," made the sea "red," and accounted for the name.
The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6
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It is surely a grim coincidence that this series, portraying footballers as filthy-rich hedonistic schemers, began a new run in the very week that Scottish football eyeballed a financial abyss.
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This was the moment when they peered into the abyss of global financial cataclysm - and then decided to take a step closer to the edge.
Times, Sunday Times
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Kipkorir´s anti-Arabism has however an explanation; his bosses, namely the militaristic establishment of the Kikuyu group at Nairobi, have stricken a deal with Hitler´s children in Africa, the racist Amhara and Tigray Monophysitic Abyssinians.
American Chronicle
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On the other hand, because of its nature as an abyss, it's an illimitable source for the plagiarist.
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Oarfish can reach lengths of 60 feet, and live in the abyssal plain, about 6000 feet below the ocean's surface.
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I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one who thinks that Man is the god of himself and that his future can only be triumphant?
Eugenio Montale - Banquet Speech
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But, if she stood on the edge of an abyss, at least she _stood_ there, firm on the solid earth.
The Three Sisters
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There are 170 miles and an abyss of sectarianism separating Glasgow and Inverness.
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It is only two years since Britain was staring into the economic abyss.
The Sun
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The organ of the Latin monks, the cymbals of the Abyssinian priest, the voice of the Greek caloyer, the prayer of the solitary Armenian, the plaintive accents of the
Palestine or the Holy Land From the Earliest Period to the Present Time
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Personally, there was a huge abyss between father and son.
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Terminalia spp. including T. avicennioides, shea nut Butyrospermum parkii, Uapaca somon, Lophira lanceolata, Protea elliotii, Burkea Africana, the nationally threatened Borassus aethiopum (VU), Mitragyna inermis, Entada abyssinica with a grassy ground cover of Andropogon spp.
Comoé National Park, Côte d'Ivoire
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Thu 10/29/09 3: 29 PM the abyss is the most UNDERRATED of his movies. its fabulous but no one ever remembers it
New 'Avatar' trailer: Coming into explosive focus | EW.com
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A previously unknown letter has surfaced, detailing the "shriekingly funny" Dreadnought hoax of 7 February 1910, when members of the Bloomsbury group of writers and artists donned beards and costumes to disguise themselves as Abyssinian princes and gained access to the pride of the British naval fleet.
How a bearded Virginia Woolf and her band of 'jolly savages' hoaxed the navy
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Far more absorbing, though, is the unfathomable abyss between the outward appearance of some of the prisoners and the crimes they have committed.
Times, Sunday Times
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Less than 30 seconds later, Maready was treading water as she watched the red beacon light of her tail rudder spiral deeper into the dark abyss.
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Habech (from which the name Abyssinia is derived), which means "a crowd" or "heap of sweepings".
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
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And all the while people suffer, the abyss between rich and poor yawns, and exploitation continues as the bitterest fact of everyday life.
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Abyssinia; none, in preparing the coffee known as Abyssinian, which is the product of wild trees; and only in a few instances in cleaning the
All About Coffee
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(p. 75); the chaos from which its world is created is powerful and essential to the creative process: “infinite darkness ... abyss ... bottomless depth” (p. 24) recall the coeval chaos of pagan mythology as well as the materia prima of alchemy (Jung, 1953, 1963).
HERMETICISM
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The BBC series Pacific Abyss shows the discovery of several new species of damselfish.
Archive 2008-08-01
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Surely this pensive fairytale of metaphysical obsession reaches the deepest abysses of ecstasy and darkness.
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THOMAS, D. and HANSON, J. (1993) Forage potential of Erythrina abyssinica: intake, digestibility and growth rates for stall-fed sheep and goats in southern Ethiopia.
Chapter 8
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And then to have the opportunity to go to the next step and to see what that sperm whale is doing in its abyssal world, a mile deep into the ocean, when we couldn't possibly be with it any other way than with the Crittercam [the underwater camera system we developed].
First Person Singular: Greg Marshall, inventor, marine biologist
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The solid-stemmed bamboo Oxytenanthera abyssinica is prominent in the western river valleys of Ethiopia, and dominant grasses include tall species of Hyparrhenia, Cymbopogon, Echinochloa, Sorghum, and Pennisetum.
East Sudanian savanna
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The incoming sediments beneath the 3 km deep Oman abyssal plain consist of 3 km of Makran sands that are derived from the north.
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He yawned widely; from the depths of the abysmal abyss stretching beyond his throat emerged his tongue.
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The deepest parts of the ocean are known as the abyssal zone.
AP Environmental Science Chapter 5- The Biosphere
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But staying in the real estate abyss is like throwing money down a rat hole.
I’m mad as hell, and I’m not going to take it anymore! | Johnny B. Truant
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He goes on to describe this notion of chaos as ‘that yawning abyss of formlessness from which all escaped’.
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Then time seemed to become an abyss a perpetual fall that would never end.
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This imperishable writer's works resonated among the Chinese populace, living in an abyss of suffering at that time, winning him great popularity.
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It's a bumpy, slow ride, and the visitor won't forget the final stretch, when the distance between the bus 'wheels and a great, yawning abyss is a matter of inches.
Real de Catorce: an outpost of progress
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In the autumn of 2008 Britain teetered on the edge of a very deep financial abyss.
Times, Sunday Times
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Petition: 30.01.2009 I think most of our Countrymen have forgotten how our Leader Raja Ram Mohan Roy liberated the ladies from the shackles of the terrible conservatisim which was pulling them to the abyss and I am sure he would be very saddened at this stupid turn of events in Mangalore by this so called sena people.
Rediff.com
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Tales of the Abyss doujinshi Guy x Luke + all chara One
SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 1106
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This means the descension of this country into an economic abyss.
