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Unplumbed   Listen
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Unplumbed  adj.  See plumbed.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Unplumbed" Quotes from Famous Books



... rogue, so clever that to most she seemed of unplumbed stupidity. Those blank green eyes of hers, that waxen face, that scarlet impenetrable mouth, her even gait and look of ruminating, look of a dolt—who knew Bianca Maria? Not Maximilian the mild-mannered King; not Duke Ludovic (that creased traitor) who schemed ...
— Little Novels of Italy • Maurice Henry Hewlett

... with locked hands and flushed cheeks, conscious through every vein of the inrush and shock of new perceptions, new comparisons, she was like a ship that leaves the harbour for the open, and feels for the first time on all her timbers the strain of the unplumbed sea. ...
— Eleanor • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... experience Between the cradle and the grave, it rises, Whispering of things unutterable, breaks its bond With outward sense and sinks into itself, As fades a star in space? Hath not that soul A history in itself, a refluent tide Of mystery murmuring out of unplumbed deeps, On distant inaccessible strands, whereon Memory lies dead amid the monstrous wreckage Of jarring worlds? Are yonder stars above As spiritually, magnificently bright As Poesy feigns? May not some slumbering sense, A memory dim of those diviner days, When all the Heavens ...
— A Celtic Psaltery • Alfred Perceval Graves

... longing's fire Should be, as soon as kindled, cooled? Who renders vain their deep desire?— A God, a God their severance ruled; And bade betwixt their shores to be The unplumbed, salt, ...
— The Home Book of Verse, Vol. 2 (of 4) • Various



Words linked to "Unplumbed" :   deep, unfathomed, profound



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