abysm
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And then, ignoring the dizzying abysm behind us, the head told us the story of St Hugh, as depicted there in front of us in the stained glass.
From BBC ● Dec. 23, 2014
Some time, some place in the dark backward and abysm of time, the first "living" thing was created, and evolution began.
From Time Magazine Archive
As if to answer Prospero's question, "What seest thou else in the dark backward and abysm of time?"
From Time Magazine Archive
As against Europe's dark backward and abysm of wars and revolutions, America was still a New World with its own democratic New Order still evolving.
From Time Magazine Archive
Through drifts of snow and over fields of ice, up steep ledges, along the slippery escarpment that overhangs the giddy abysm, with wearied knees, and panting breath, and frozen fingers, onward and upward I go.
From The Rifle Rangers by Mayne Reid
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