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Unplumbed

adjective
1.
Situated at or extending to great depth; too deep to have been sounded or plumbed.  Synonyms: profound, unfathomed, unsounded.  "The dark unfathomed caves of ocean" , "Unplumbed depths of the sea" , "Remote and unsounded caverns"






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"Unplumbed" Quotes from Famous Books



... untiring enthusiasm for life. At Eton he had been captain of the school and he was a scholar of Trinity. He had as fine a memory as Professor Churton Collins or my husband and an unplumbed sea of knowledge, quoting with equal ease both poetry and prose. He edited the Pall Mall Gazette brilliantly for several years. With his youth, brains and looks, he might have done anything in life; but he was fatally self-indulgent and success with my ...
— Margot Asquith, An Autobiography: Volumes I & II • Margot Asquith

... vanished. He leaned towards me, and the lids of his little round eyes slowly lifted. It was like the lifting of curtains. For an instant I looked into the unplumbed abyss of the man's soul, and I felt the full impact of his ruthless, powerful mind. It was an astonishing revelation of character, that glance. I think the Swede designed it so, for he was about to ...
— The Blood Ship • Norman Springer

... a sorry set of fellows enough, to outward seeming, but how shall a European judge them fairly? Stevenson says in one of his Essays, "Justice is not done to the versatility and the unplumbed childishness of man's imagination. His life from without may seem but a rude mound of mud; there will be some golden chamber at the heart of it, in which he dwells delighted; and for as dark as his pathway seems to the observer, he will have some kind of bull's-eye ...
— Morocco • S.L. Bensusan



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