Or perhaps they are of this world, but have been held prisoner in the fathomless darkness below the Abyss, prisoner until now.

Soon, Khalid Alomari's face took Rayburn's place, and as Harvath began to slip into the fathomless darkness of an exhausted sleep, he visualized killing both of them-as slowly and painfully as possible.

They'd stepped to the precipice, faced the fathomless darkness, and come back whole.

In darkness, for it lacked two hours of dawn, we watched our loads, and then Narayan Singh and the babu, being lowered in a great basket between natural rock bastions, and heard the basket--wind blown-- crash against the rock wall in fathomless darkness.

Dorini's eyes became a frozen gray color as she spoke, and seemed to open onto fathomless darkness as she turned her cold gaze on Tyron.

At the last instant, it opened its fiery mouth, and he entered a great and fathomless darkness.

He disappeared again into fathomless darkness.

Looking up, she let the fathomless darkness consume her final lamentations, the end of her hope, and the vestiges of her memory, until nothing remained.

The pain in my face and hands died away, and I was still and I was safe, and fear and sorrow melted into a cool and fathomless darkness.