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plumbless

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Incapable of being measured or sounded with a plummet or lead-line; unfathomable.

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Examples

  • With his unbending, utilitarian, matter – of – fact face, he hardened her again; and the moment shot away into the plumbless depths of the past, to mingle with all the lost opportunities that are drowned there.

    Hard Times 2002

  • His dark eyes were large, beautiful with plumbless wisdom.

    Autobiography of a Yogi Yogananda, Paramhansa, 1893-1952 1935

  • Seeing them, the Savage made a grimace; but he was to become reconciled to them in course of time; for at night they twinkled gaily with geometrical constellations, or else, flood-lighted, pointed their luminous fingers (with a gesture whose significance nobody in England but the Savage now understood) solemnly towards the plumbless mysteries of heaven.

    Brave New World Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963 1932

  • His dark eyes were large, beautiful with plumbless wisdom.

    Autobiography of a Yogi Paramahansa Yogananda 1922

  • The words of the Spirit of Creation swell in a harmonious storm, they mould the worlds as with hands, they sweep the plumbless spaces as with a besom of winds.

    The Masque of the Elements Herman George Scheffauer 1902

  • On either side was that soft plumbless diffusion, and ahead the secret of untravelled wilds and the fortunes of war.

    The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897

  • She was very quiet, very pale, yet the plumbless grief of her eyes brought tears to Hulm's face.

    The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897

  • Her eyes drew up from his, and looked away to plumbless distance, all glowing and childlike, and the new ciphers slowly said:

    Pierre and His People, [Tales of the Far North], Complete Gilbert Parker 1897

  • Her eyes drew up from his, and looked away to plumbless distance, all glowing and childlike, and the new ciphers slowly said:

    Pierre and His People, [Tales of the Far North], Volume 5. Gilbert Parker 1897

  • Her eyes drew up from his, and looked away to plumbless distance, all glowing and childlike, and the new ciphers slowly said:

    The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897

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