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Perhaps he will have seen a full-foliaged Lombardy poplar swaying in half a gale in June the wind and the sun streaming over every little twig and leaf, the tree throwing out its branches in a kind of ecstasy and bathing them in the passionately boisterous caresses of its two visitants; or he will have heard the deep glad murmur of some huge sycamore with ripening seed clusters when after weeks of drought the steady warm rain brings relief to its thirst; and he will have known that these creatures are but likenesses of himself, intimately and deeply-related to him in their love and hunger longing, and, like himself too, unfathomed and unfathomable.
It is depth unfathomable, it is black as the blackest night, and men wander helplessly therein. In it a man may not live in quietness of heart; nor may the affections be gratified therein." After a short address to Osiris, the deceased asks the god, "How long shall I live?" And the god says, "It is decreed that thou shalt live for millions of millions of years, a life of millions of years."
The full moon deluged the town with silvery light, and the cloudless sky was jewelled with myriads of glittering stars. Looking out into the unfathomable infinity of space, Owen wondered what manner of Being or Power it was that had originated and sustained all this?
She did not hear the piteous entreaties of poor harassed Peter as he forced her back, back, back, from those awful depths. She only knew a great turmoil that seemed to her unending a fearful striving against ever-increasing odds and at the last a swirling, unfathomable darkness descending like a wind-blown blanket upon her enveloping her, annihilating her....
Between the sexes lies not only a deep, eternal hostility, but the unfathomable abyss of a complete lack of reciprocal comprehension. For instance, all the words in a language will never express what a smile will express and between women a smile is like a masonic sign; we can use them between ourselves without any fear of their being misunderstood by the other sex.
Oh, unfathomable and divine mystery of the balances of destiny! Jean Valjean was prudent enough never to go out by day. Every evening, at twilight, he walked for an hour or two, sometimes alone, often with Cosette, seeking the most deserted side alleys of the boulevard, and entering churches at nightfall. He liked to go to Saint-Medard, which is the nearest church.
So, day after day, in his leisure moments, he would pace the brow of the sandhill seeking in his mind for a solution to an issue that seemed unfathomable. Was he ugly? No. Was he repulsive? No. Was he a woman hater? No. Was he a criminal? No. Had he offended the fair sex in any way? No. Was he poor? No. Did he belong to the human family? Yes. With what disease then was he afflicted?
It was still there, and, with the discovery that it was, Varick became conscious of a prickling of the scalp, a chill along the spine. His brown face whitened. "Well, by all the gods!" he gasped. "How did that thing get here?" No one ever told him. Possibly no one could except the Dream Woman, and her he never saw again; so the mystery was unfathomable.
It may be, as M. Salomon Reinach has also suggested, that it was some curious and indefinable sense of kinship with them that led him to do so, or more probably, as the present writer thinks, some sense of a need of the alliance of animals against hostile spirits. In all probability it was no motive which we can now fathom. The mind of early man was like the unfathomable mind of a boy.
'What peace did HE find who couldn't, perhaps, like you, face the last good-bye? They stood in utter solitude awhile in the evening gloom. The air was as still and cold as some grey unfathomable untraversed sea. Above them uncountable clouds drifted slowly across space. 'Why do they all keep whispering together? he said in a low voice, with cowering face.
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