Star Pond, set to its limpid depths with the heavenly gems, glittered and darkled with its million diamond incrustations.
By degrees she was able to distinguish the rocky crest of Star Peak, with the tops of tall trees appearing level with the rocks from depths below.
But it was the intense, arsenical green of hair-fine grass that covers with its false velvet those quaking bogs where only a thin, crust-like skin of root-fibre and vegetation cover infinite depths of silt.
Their torches flashed it; he heard them sounding its depths with their gun-butts.
Then reaction, setting in like a tide, stirred more sombre depths in the heart of this young man.
Then the three spectres, Fate, Chance and Destiny, whispering together, passed on toward the depthsof the sunset forest.
It was one of the qualities of a temperament such as his that while he might be in the depths at one hour he would be on the heights at the next.
The birds in the odorous depths of the foliage sang incessantly, and Robert had never before heard them sing so sweetly.
They were soon in the heavy forest that clothed all the hills, and passed up a narrow ravine leading into the depths of the maze.
You will find it in the deepest depths of earth, and in the highest reaches of air.
God alone can sound the depths of its measureless capacity for sin and iniquity; therefore, he says: "I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins.
There his soul, rising from the depths of the overwhelming waves of agony, cries: "Father, into thy hands I commit my spirit.
Still he did not answer, but gave her that same intent, questioning look, as if gazing through and beyond the depths of the eyes above him.
But she says you have to do these things when you have a genius in the house, and cites the case of Kipling's "Recessional," which was rescued from the depths of his wastebasket by his wife.
Willoughby had thrust both hands into his pockets, and his head was turned sideways, as if the better to study the depthsof her emotion.
And as they stepped into the depths of the soft black shadows he took off his smart straw sailor, which was so different from the sailors that the boys in our town wear.
Before the door was even closed, Haines lifted the ship and headed for the dark depths of the canyon.
Immediately, the plane's cooling system became more effective as Ferrati guided the rocket through the shadowy depths away from the blazing sunbeams.
When Russell Clyde was off duty, he spent much time with Burl at the wide-screen viewers that showed the black depthsof interplanetary space surrounding them.
And I've sounded the depths of your hideous infamy!
Overhead, the sky, a pallid and luminous blue around the low-swung moon, was shaded to profound depthsof bluish-black toward the horizon.
How could she foretell what was in his mind and heart, how probe the depths of his feeling toward her?
Two months later Jenvie died in a moment of apoplexy; the succeeding autumn Hamlin succumbed to typhoid fever, and Stetson sailed away to lose himself in the depths of Australia.
From the depthsof Africa and the society of Boers and Kaffirs to an enchanted palace!
Constantly obliged to restrain the ingenuous impulses, the emotions of a woman, at a time when she still feels instead of reflecting, passion had remained unsullied in the depths of her heart.
In the depths of his poverty he possessed and was conscious of an incredible store of courage and a superabundance of all-consuming genius.
Finally, they are hurried down to the lowest depths of hell, and yet not destroyed.
If all these plains were ploughed or dug up three or four times, so as to let the air and light penetrate into the depths of the soil, the fever which lies dormant under the rank vegetation would speedily evaporate, and return no more.
Judgments are passed on her beauty, her toilet, and her diamonds, but nobody has the opportunity or the leisure to penetrate into the depths of her mind.
The thirty-three bells of the cathedral were tolling, and from the depths of its long-drawn aisles and echoing arches strains of the sacred music within came forth and floated over the bowed heads of the hushed and expectant multitude.
Hidden within their depths of shadow, birds and monkeys twittered and chattered; and at intervals there came to Lenox the peculiar long-drawn note with which the hill villagers call to one another across the valleys.
Now will my Sahib taste comfort and peace again," he muttered into the depths of his beard, and having cut the strings of the parcel, discreetly withdrew.
And the mouths brought increasing reliance on her comradeship; increasing insight into the depths and delicacies of a passion that was almost genius.
It represented a young girl, with the promise of womanhood on her gravely sweet lips, and in the depths of her eyes, half-sitting upon the crossed rails of the verandah.
From the depths of an easy chair, Ottilie made an impatient exclamation.
Could any man ever be disillusioned who had the depths of those lake-like eyes to gaze into?
Elsa, at her side, was stirred to the deepest depths of her excitable temperament, each faculty poised, each nerve a-quiver as she hung bashfully back behind her aunt.
It was the face of the mystic queen in his visions of Avilion--it was beauty of the type he most passionately admired; and beauty which was stirred to its depths by pity and sympathy for him.
The amount of information handed down from past ages even now is but as the spray which rises above the ocean's surface to the vast depths which lie below.
The practical annoyances to which he is subject make him realize to the fullest extent 'the unfathomable depths of human woe.
Horses could be herded in the depths of the sandy shallows.
One of her most wonderful trophies, after fighting a splendid fight for years, had slipped back into the depths of sin.
The Adjutant found her in the depths of sin, and determined, by the grace of God, that she should be saved.
Auguste, frantic with anger, which he tried to smother in the depths of his soul, presently left the house, swearing to penetrate to the heart of the mystery.
Yet, after two months of assiduities, she saw with a vague dread in the depths of her soul that M.
Well, in the depths of my heart there is a voice that pleads for my wife, and makes itself heard above the pangs of jealousy.
No man is strong enough to bear such sudden alternations from the height of happiness to the depths of wretchedness.
There are many hidden monologues told to the walls of some solitary lodging; storms roused and calmed without ever leaving the depths of hearts; amazing scenes of the moral world, for which a painter is wanted.
I beg of you, when an unhappy woman has reached the lowest depths of wretchedness.
That hearts when thus their very depths are burning Alone should know their bitterness, is well; But, oh, my heart more joys than aches in learning Another lesson, would that words could tell.
New depths of love in measure unsuspected, Ties closer than I knew, were round my heart; And half I thank the wrench that has detected How thoroughly and deeply dear thou art.
A luminous dust was dancing in its warm shadows; the eyes penetrated with pleasure into the depths of the background; its reliefs seemed to swim in a living blackness.
White clouds hover slowly in the depths of heaven, like a flock of tranquil swans.
But it evaporates as it rises; already the landscapes of the depths appear under a transparent twilight; the middle of the valley discovers itself.
Turbid water went boiling down the swollen cascades; the depths of the gorge were still darkened by the storm; but a tender light played over the wet summits, like a smile bathed in tears.
From the depths of a thicket the sergents de ville cast on you their eagle glance, and the dung decorates the alleys with its poetic heaps.
Some among these plunge abruptly away down into depths where they disgorge the streams that they accumulate, and where is gathered all the heat of the burning vault which shines above under the most generous sun.
In the depths of midwinter, the white Arctic fox has a wool fur to his feet like a brahma chicken.
But no, vow other trappers--that is impossible, for here are blue fox-skins captured in the depths of midwinter with not a white hair among them.
Then there is a wild scuttling down to the depths of the burrows.
They have long since snuggled into their warm houses, where they will stay till their winter store is all used; and their houses are now hidden under great depths of deepening snow.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "depths" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: bottom; bowels; dead; depth; hell; interior; recess; underworld
