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What unplummeted abysses of time and distance intervene from the primary rock to the Victoria Regia! and again from the first crawling spine to the fetterless mind of a Schelling!

From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by Alger, William Rounseville

And I knew, in all absoluteness, that did I but miss one star I should be precipitated into some unplummeted abyss of unthinkable and eternal punishment and guilt.

From The Jacket (Star-Rover) by London, Jack

Behold the superstructure whose foundations our forefathers laid upon the unstable overgrowth of popular caprice surfacing the unplummeted abysm of human depravity!

From The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909 by Howes, S. O. (Silas Orrin)