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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



... worthiest of respect in the breast of this truly great-hearted man. The burning wrong which he felt against slavery had sunk in his mind below the reach of the grappling tongs of reason. It lay like a charge of giant powder, with its slow match attachment in the unplumbed depths of a soul which knew not fear; of a soul which was as hot with smouldering hate and rage as is a live volcano with its unvomited flame and lava. As well, under the circumstances, have tried to subdue the profound fury of the one with argument, ...
— Right on the Scaffold, or The Martyrs of 1822 - The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers No. 7 • Archibald H. Grimke

... so glad, his face libelled him past forgiveness. But Cally Heth still soared, too high in the unplumbed blue to note, even now, what house was ...
— V. V.'s Eyes • Henry Sydnor Harrison

... 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 ...
— Morocco • S.L. Bensusan



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