Depths

Examples

• If the central depths were untouched, hardly a pin-point of surface remained the same. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• It is necessary that this drawing be made in four operations; the first and second are particularly interesting, on account of their depths, which are 5-1/2 and 9-3/16 inches, respectively. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Half a dozen able-bodied men were standing in a line from the well-mouth, holding a rope which passed over the well-roller into the depths below. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• His honest eyes fire up, and sparkle, as if their depths were stirred by something bright. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• He sowed different seeds from the same machine, and arranged that they might be covered at different depths. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The lightning is made his swift messenger, and thought flashes in submarine depths around the world. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The thought of Laura welled up like a spring in the depths of my heart, and filled it with waters of bitterness, never, never known to it before. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• She realized the spell that had been upon her in the depths of that far-off jungle, but there was no spell of enchantment now in prosaic Wisconsin. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Whenever Mr. Snagsby and his conductors are stationary, the crowd flows round, and from its squalid depths obsequious advice heaves up to Mr. Bucket. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The azure of the sky penetrates the depths of the lake, and the waters are sweet and cool. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The low, bad, unimpressible face is coming up from the depths of the river, or what other depths, to the surface again. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Before I could overtake him he had sprung to the rail and hurled himself headforemost into the awful depths below. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• A device for continuously indicating on a galvanometer the depths of the ocean. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Don't use such dreadful expressions, replied Meg from the depths of the veil in which she had shrouded herself like a nun sick of the world. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• And then she was dragged out of my sight into the depths of the deserted edifice. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• I sound the depths of my heart, and try in vain to draw thence the expressions that can typify my love for these remnants of my race. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• I am a poor man, said he, as he patted it affectionately, and thrust it into the depths of his inner pocket. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• The fountain of my filial affection was stirred to its profoundest depths, and I gave way to tumultuous emotion. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• To see me now, Thomasin, gives you no idea of what I have been; of what depths I have descended to in these few last days. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• But it was a merciful Providence which prevented him from foreseeing the hideous reality which awaited them in the grim depths of that gloomy wood. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Something within me, faintly answering to the storm without, tossed up the depths of my memory and made a tumult in them. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• I look and I think I see, writes Bergson, I listen and I think I hear, I examine myself and I think I am reading the very depths of my heart. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• How could she have pretended love, and raised him to such a pinnacle of hope only to cast him down to such utter depths of despair! Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• She had lost her mother before her father; and where her father's grave was no one knew, except that it was somewhere in the depths of the sea. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• By means of the brilliancy of the lamps marine animals in the lower depths were attracted and then easily ensnared. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Only she wept from fathomless depths of hopeless, hopeless grief, the terrible grief of a child, that knows no extenuation. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Ah, what was he doing, to what depths was he letting himself go! D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• They had hardly uttered the sighing, that the eyes of each called to the other to bring up from the depths of her heart. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Lily's eyes did not falter, but a look of wonder, of puzzled self-interrogation, formed itself slowly in their depths. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• He, Loerke, could penetrate into depths far out of Gerald's knowledge. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .

Typist: Morton