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Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.

Deep

In the lowest deep, a lower deep
Still threatening to devour me, opens wide,
To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heaven.
Milton.—Paradise Lost, Book IV. Line 76.

The always-wind-obeying deep.
Shakespeare.—Comedy of Errors, Act I. Scene 1. (Ægeon to the Duke.)

Deep calleth unto deep.
Psalm xlii. ver. 7.

Deep answereth to deep.
Macdonald.—England’s Antiphon, 3.