| The combination of harmless quotations of fairy and fable tales with the symbols of abysm aims at the scurrility of ordinary family problems in the sinister environment of the Osbourne family. |
| Crystal reached her shaking hand and took it as if it was her last salvation before she falls in the abysm. |
| It is easy to see how such conditions profoundly limit the development of organic being in the abysm of the ocean. |
| His voice dropped, and he seemed to drop too, into some abysm of thought. |
| It first opened my eyes to antiquity, the 'dark backward and abysm of time. |
| The flooring of these colossal garrets has crevices in it through which one can look down into the abysm, the church, below. |
