All 5 Uses of
abyss
in
Childhood's End
- The great luminous fish suddenly flashed on all its lights in a frantic signal of alarm, and departed like a meteor Into the darkness of the abyss.†
Chpt 11 *abyss = a hole or dropoff so deep the bottom cannot be seen -- often used figuratively to imply a frightening bottomless pit
- Its great expressionless eyes, half a metre across, stared at its destroyer-though, in all probability, neither creature could see the other in the darkness of the abyss.†
Chpt 13
- All through that century, the human race was drawing slowly nearer to the abyss-never even suspecting its existence.†
Chpt 20
- Across that abyss, there is only one bridge.†
Chpt 20
- He was standing, it seemed, unsupported among the uppermost peaks of the city, with nothing to protect him from the abyss.†
Chpt 22