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These shadows of memory tell, indistinctly, of tall figures that lifted and bore me in silence down—down—still down—till a hideous dizziness oppressed me at the mere idea of the interminableness of the descent.

From The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Poe, Edgar Allan

That confrontation had an interminableness that had nothing to do with the actual passage of time.

From The Research Magnificent by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)