Transitional state

Usage examples of limbo.

Zigzagging to avoid large stars which could disrupt a blink generator and send a ship and its contents into limbo for eternity, the ship blinked and rested, bunked and rested, traveling the Orion Arm in seven-league boots, covering distances which strained the imagination in an instant, held back only by the need to rest, to recharge, to build for the next jump.

LETTER V Kwan-non Temple--Uniformity of Temple Architecture--A Kuruma Expedition--A Perpetual Festival--The Ni-o--The Limbo of Vanity-- Heathen Prayers--Binzuru--A Group of Devils--Archery Galleries--New Japan--An Elegante.

Its engine seemed to catch for a mordent, then died, but the torpedo was caught in a strange undersea limbo, neither diving nor surfacing, its engine occasionally sputtering.

It is a slow process, for a mistake could cast us into a placeless timeless limbo forever and a day.

The victor in this contrived war between himself and March would be trapped forever with an undecaying corpse on the stage set of a magical western, condemned to a limbo in which he would feed on deathly beetles and drink bitter water from a fountain whose splashing kept growing louder and louder.

Was he considering sliding into limbo to unhappen that first key meeting between Ann Chovie and Demon Strate?

Eventually Elric had mounted a massive summoning against the allies of Grrodd Ybene Eenr with the result that the shaman had been at last overwhelmed and his remains scattered in Limbo.

His cheeks were boy-smooth, deep into the lean and cool of preadolescent limbo.

A helpful mechanism of my preconsciousness had switched on, shunting both hurt and fear into a sensory limbo beneath my dreams.

Zezdon Afthen raised his dark eyes to the terrestrian with a look in their depths that made Wade involuntarily resolve that Thet and all Thessians should be promptly consigned to that limbo of forgotten things where they belonged.

The house looked small, a runt among the high-shouldered giants of buildings around it where once the unhomed and the unwanted wandered in limbo.

Lady Ombersley was still dazed, still clutching feebly at the fast vanishing picture of the shy little niece of her imaginings, but at these words that insipid damsel was cast into the limbo of things unregretted and unremembered.

But then Ananke decided to spare it, so the time track of the city that had continued his actions with the demon was cut away and sent to Limbo.

The full name of this creek is El Rio de las Animas Arrepentidas en Limbo, or the River of the Compensating Souls in the Borderland of Limes.

He remembered in a vague sort of way the stories which used to be told of the terrible Apulian spider, but he had consigned them to the limbo of medical fable where so many fictions have clothed themselves with a local habitation and a name.