"Unplumbed" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... know, who wheel around my burning, What torments bore them, or what power am I, I, that with all those worlds around me turning, Sail, every hour, from sky to unplumbed sky? ...
— Watchers of the Sky • Alfred Noyes
... advantage for the first time in soft and clinging fabrics,—that touched the spring of Prosper's delighted egotism. There it was again, the ideal audience, the necessary atmosphere, the beautiful, gracious, intelligent listener. He forgot her ignorance, her utter simplicity, the unplumbed emptiness of her experience, and he spread out his colorful thoughts before her in colorful words, the ...
— The Branding Iron • Katharine Newlin Burt
... the tired brain refused to act; the man felt himself falling into unplumbed depths—depths ...
— No Man's Land • H. C. McNeile
... Nevilles were leaving Mentone, a new doctor who had been consulted having advised a more bracing climate for Lady Doreen, and simultaneously Sir Philip had announced his decision to return to London—a combination of events which had succeeded in reducing Tony to unplumbed depths of despondency. ...
— The Vision of Desire • Margaret Pedler
... frightful face as the grotesque eyes fell upon this new creature. Number One had never before seen a woman, but the sight of this one awoke in the unplumbed depths of his soulless breast a great desire to lay his hands upon her. She was very beautiful. Number One wished to have her for his very own; nor would it be a difficult matter, so fragile was she, to gather her up in those great, ...
— The Monster Men • Edgar Rice Burroughs |
