Word: fathomless
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...being undermined, changed, improved, or come at in some hitherto undreamed-of-way-even by so humble a creature as himself, an inventor-and used as a chained force, if only one knew how. ... He had become conscious of anterior as well as ulterior forces and immensities and fathomless wells of wisdom and energy, and had enslaved a minute portion of them, that was all. But not here! Oh, no. Later...
...almost mythical, virtually genteel. But Clifford Dowdey's Experiment in Rebellion, 'Roy Meredith's Mr. Lincoln's Camera Man, Burton J. Hendrick's Lincoln's War Cabinet and a corporal's guard of books dealing with Lincoln himself testified to the apparently fathomless curiosity of the U.S. reader in the events...
...brilliant and profound 54-page preface to Joseph and His Brothers (TIME, June 11, 1934), Mann said: "Very deep is the well of the past." Into this well, recorded history goes only a little way, and not truth, but mystery, lies in its fathomless depths. Yet the myths of man are pious abbreviations reaching far deeper than his factual knowledge of events. "Certainly it becomes clearer and clearer that the dream memory of man, formless but shaping itself ever anew after the manner of sagas, reaches back to catastrophes of vast antiquity, the tradition of which, fed by recurrent...
...unqualifiedly ambitious, almost Elizabethan. Even in the act of love her heroine's mental talk runs, for a full page, like this: "No, wait, wait for me. Do not leave me among old injustices and unanswered calls. Hold me, bear me up lest my hand, trailing back through fathomless water, encounter a dead man's face." Rather more successful is Carl's image of Ellie: "Oh, she is mad ... she veers like an abandoned ship on wild water by night, all sails down, and the wheel spinning first left, then right, and rats pattering over the empty...
...with sorrow like dark stars in blue mist"). Because Sandburg has been compared often to Walt Whitman, his mature portrait of Walt is instructive: "Undersized, with graying whiskers, Quaker-blooded, softhearted, sentimental, a little crazy, this Walt Whitman sang to the war years, 'Rise O days, from your fathomless deeps...