Huge holes

Usage examples of abysses.

All I remember was a kind of feverish haze of murky description that made no sense, a magical fairytale of heights that turned into abysses, of raindrops that became knives, of rocks that danced and sang, of demons who furiously hurled their limbs one by one at climbing Pilgrims until there was nothing left of them but bouncing skulls, of wise men who offered counsel along the way but spoke all their words in backwards language.

I could not bring myself to face that question squarely, for it opened abysses in my mind.

For all we knew we were moving along an upthrust strip of rock no wider than our two feet, with fathomless abysses on either side.

And this time, faint and far across the unimaginable abysses of time, a thin thought-answer came into his mind.

But his thoughts flashed out to it, across the abysses of space and time to the fairy towers of Throon.

Irrevocable abysses of time and space separated him forever from the one woman he had ever loved.