Meanings of abysm in English

What seest thou else in the dark backward and abysm of time?

The sylph-like ease with which the Countess floated over this foul abysm was miraculous.

Why, it would be the very depth and abysm of cowardice to leave here.

His voice dropped, and he seemed to drop too, into some abysm of thought.

The row of kings is plunging into the abysm.

One cliff is like another in its jagged nakedness; one abysm dark and empty as another.

But they had moments of fearful suspense as they sank slowly down into the black abysm.

In the dark backward and abysm of time?

The low gurgling of the wonder-working stream might be heard issuing from the depths of the dark abysm.

But I dare not jump, for the ice must not crumble lest an abysm open at my feet.

A horseman dashed to the front; and, poising his horse upon the very edge, looked down into the abysm.

We could see nothing in the dark abysm that frowned below; and we waited till the light should break forth again.

He felt himself falling deep into an abysm of space, then suddenly caught up and set among the stars of heaven.

The flooring of these colossal garrets has crevices in it through which one can look down into the abysm, the church, below.

Behold the superstructure whose foundations our forefathers laid upon the unstable overgrowth of popular caprice surfacing the unplummeted abysm of human depravity!

Up from out the dark abysm;