How To Use Fathom In A Sentence

I've anchored here a hundred times in thirteen fathoms. A SON OF THE SUN
My fellow countrymen were killing and harming each other in ways that I previously could not have fathomed. Soiya Gecaga: Being the Change That I Wish To See In the World
It is hard to fathom the pain felt at the death of a child.
But you can't really begin to fathom it until you're actually there. Times, Sunday Times
The first column is the circumference in inches and the other three columns are fathoms, feet, and inches.

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For years people have been trying to fathom the mysteries of the whale's song.
For the life of me, I cannot fathom your continued application of the irrebuttable presumption that any individual held and interrogated by the admin is necessarily a murderer or an aider of a murderer. Balkinization
Clearly he is throwing up obstacles to solutions, for some unfathomed reason (s). Tough Love « Tales from the Reading Room
These could be courses in the bottom of dormant volcanoes, on isolated islands, or atop unfathomably high mountaintops.
The grin vanished like magic, her whole body stiffening in antipathy as her eyes locked with fathomless brown ones.
The depth sounder tells him how deep his traps are, and the deepest ones we we'll hit today are in about 40 fathoms, or 240 feet, of water.
While science describes our world through facts and figures, art and literature describes our world in metaphorical ways, by allowing us to see with our hearts what our minds sometimes have trouble fathoming. Comic geek question
This is once again the natterings of those most threatened by the rise of social media, who see their business model being sideswiped by something large and fast-moving, but whose exact shape and dimensions they cannot fathom.
It would not further confuse a public who already find the machinations of Westminster almost unfathomable. Times, Sunday Times
tonight the haddock were shoaling massively in three hundred fathoms
Sand is commonly met with at the depth of three or four fathoms, and beneath this a stratum of napal or steatite, which is considered as a sign that the metal is near; but the least fallible mark is a red stone, called batu kawi, lying in detached pieces. The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants
What an infinitesimal fraction of time's fathomless abyss is assigned to each of us!
Just as the exquisite sea-anemones and all the graceful ocean-flowers die out at some fathoms below the surface, the elegances and suavities of life die out one by one as we sink through the social scale. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 20, June, 1859
The Gift came over the eastermost, and had not less than four and a half fathoms. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 09 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time
There are six of them in total, one hundred and fifty foot tall totemic spires of Growth Bone, Calcine, and Blossom Glass, bedecked on all sides with terraces, platforms and loggias, sun-bleached and standing to attention like nine pins spilt upon the desert or deep sea hydro-thermal vents rising from unfathomed depths. Watchman: Babel Series Part One | SciFi UK Review
Christopher is mathematically gifted, but socially incapable, finding the simplest emotional empathy unfathomable.
In the midst of the church stood 12. waxe tapers of two yards long, and a fathom about in bignesse, and there stands a kettle full of waxe with about 100. weight, wherein there is alwayes the wicke of a candle burning, as it were a lampe which goeth not out day nor night. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 03
A round nubble about 14 mile in diameter, of sharp, rocky bottom having about 40 fathoms over it. Fishing Grounds of the Gulf of Maine
At a depth of fifteen fathoms it was six feet wide and contained 76% copper.
After all, this is a man so potty and unfathomably wealthy that he can walk into a shop stocking ghastly, ugly, ridiculously pricy ornaments and already own most of them.
Gretchen-One split the seconds into a thousand pieces releasing seconds as Einstein split the atom astonishing energy, unfathomable energy she destroyed that day remotely it lay in the distant timeline, she found it destroyed it with atomics with the atomic seconds thus saved mankind forever thus saved what remained of mankind a dry skeleton in an underground bunker deep in the heart of old egypt Three gretchens
It is not hard to fathom why Rwanda, still not fully healed from an ethnic slaughter that was egged on by radio zealots, would look for ways to regulate what it calls "divisionism" in the media. NYT > Home Page
Pennsylvania and territories thereof; viz. 20 guns, 20 fathoms matchcoat, 20 fathoms stroud-water, 20 blankets, 20 kettles, 20 lbs. Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 2 (of 3)
Thus, I cannot fathom Mr. Halevi's suggestion that the Israelis answer this repudiation of their most basic national rights with still more unilateral concessions, in the form of an open-ended freeze on construction in the disputed territories. Maybe the Right Middle East Term Is 'Peace For Land'
Considering how opposed many conservative Christians are even to soft-core pornography (at least publicly!), I find it hard to fathom how a soi-disant conservative Christian can legitimately justify posing for titillating photographs with the goal of material and professional gain in mind — and especially not while technically still a minor (Prejean was not yet eighteen when she chose to pose for the topless photographs). Think Progress » Miss Beverly Hills tries to one-up Carrie Prejean, says it’s divine law that gays be put to death.
The present display tries to give this unfathomable infantilism an adult twist by labelling it officially as kawaii — cute. Times, Sunday Times
I have many memories of Calum, but the one that lingers most hauntingly in my mind is of him sitting among my family, his dark eyes, unfathomable as they often were, fixed on somewhere high on the wall, while his fingers coaxed that plaintive music from our little squeeze-box. Every living thing
I recommend seven or eight small pieces of iron to be prepared, a fathom in size, in thickness like a thick specillum, and bent at the extremity, and a broad piece should be on the extremity, like a small obolus. On Hemorrhoids
I would go to any extent in my art to fathom the mystery of humankind's existence.
And as for other kindes of wares I haue bought none as yet And for mastes to bee prouided, you shall vnderstand that I wrote a letter to Totma the 28. of this present for fiftie mastes to wit, for 25. of fifteene fathoms, and 25. of foureteene fathoms, to be an arshine and a halfe at the small ende. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
Just as the latter instrument indicates the pressure of the atmosphere above it, so the bathometer was intended to show the pull of the earth below it; and experiment proved, we believe, that for every 1,000 fathoms of sea-water below the ship, the total gravity of the mercury was reduced by 1/3200 part. Heroes of the Telegraph
How can a non-executive be expected to fathom the depths of Congolese mining rights? Times, Sunday Times
That is, until tomorrow when I inform Jon that the only thing I can fathom eating and keeping down is all-you-can-eat salad and breadsticks.
He could not fathom the depths of her reserve but determined he would test it well before the night was out. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
We found the cable cut about two fathoms from the hawsehole.
I can't really fathom it at the minute. Times, Sunday Times
A delirious convention was taking place, a deranged banquet of the fathoms. RUSHING TO PARADISE
The defence secretary, whose department was, for reasons which still seem unfathomable, allowed to run what counted for peace as well as the war, lacked this messianic zeal.
He also retained a belief in predestination and in an unfathomable Providence overseeing the affairs of the world.
The harbour is four fathoms deep.
Everyone who loves you is aware of your unfathomable depth, your dark feelings and unknowable concerns.
She didn't have time to fathom the mystery of books, though.
The universe is so large that we can not even fathom where it ends or begins.
One of the many folk songs constellated around the full-scale Byzantine epic of Dhiyenis Akritas has the hero telling how he passed through ‘the mountains of Araby, the Syrian gorges’ with ‘my four-foot sword, my three-fathom spear’.
And even they may not be properly fit to do so, for those who fathomed the depths of human degradation in Leningrad did not survive to tell the tale. Leningrad: Tragedy of a City Under Siege 1941-44 by Anna Reid – review
In the hidden reaches where memory probes are sorrows too deep to fathom. Consuelo & Alva: Love and Power in the Gilded Age
I cannot fathom what kind of scenes he soundtracked as many of his songs have so many fragments of starkly different genres crammed in.
These nonentities are pierced by longings they can't name or fathom. Times, Sunday Times
Such a lopsided half-time score for St Johnstone was difficult to fathom.
He could never fathom ever giving up his absolute free will.
They do not have the same intricate inner workings of women and they are not unfathomable pools of emotions swirling effervescently in a bubbling turmoil of feelings and needs.
They would then swim and dive a few fathoms to pick up either trochus or bêche de mer.
I still couldn't fathom why they held such a presence over the school.
But then, unfathomably, their impetus went "phut". Cricinfo news from Cricinfo
How he could possibly be considered electable is still unfathomable to me! Blitzer: Most explosive charges I can remember
Order now before today's pussified, PADI-preaching prattlers warp you into taking "living reef eco-tours" when, instead, you could be going 30 fathoms deep and power-heading jewfish between the eyes. Hell Divers' Rodeo
I have to admit that I never fathomed achieving the kind of success that I have. Larger Than Lyfe
The layers of presumption and irreality are too many to fathom. New McCain Ad: I Love America
She couldn't fathom him having any of those anymore.
The reason for a larger military role in domestic law enforcement is not hard to fathom.
If we cannot solve the problems of the present existence of worlds, how little can we expect to fathom the unsoundable depths of their creation and development through ages measureless to man! Recreations in Astronomy With Directions for Practical Experiments and Telescopic Work
Equally, no plumb line can fathom the depths of my misery at sitting through this overlong, mediocre serial. Times, Sunday Times
Fatty stares at me, eyes an unfathomable sea of emotion.
But I can't fathom anyone reading stories like this and not feeling the sting and burn of utter, abject shame.
How, exactly, the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem came to involve at least one flying, no less ungulate with a photoluminescent proboscis, abominable snowmen, a Christmas elf yearning to be a dentist, not to mention more than one lobster... is a bit hard to fathom. David Katz, M.D.: Fatness, misFitness and the Right Kind of Island
Deep soundings above 6 fathoms (11 m) were impracticable so the practice then was to sound the depth using a line and lead.
In today's opening contest, I've narrowed the field down to Russian Spirit, Fathom Five, Le Toreador, Ishetoo and Fol Hollow but, in the hope that his lowish draw might prove a slight advantage, it's Fol Hollow (1.40) who might just come out on top. Talking Horses
For an unfathomable reason, I kept thinking of Balanchine's Agon as the dancers swept through their athletic ceremonial.
Being an "empath" may explain her wistful connection to the roiling waves of the ocean, the sanctuary it provides, and the sexual urges that seem to emanate from fathoms below … Archive 2007-02-01
Audiences have a tough time relating to the unfathomable wealth and incessant boasting of these artists.
However, this dreadful purpose was prevented, partly by the interposition of his wife, whose aim was not the death but immurement of his daughter, and partly by the tears and supplication of the young gentlewoman herself, who protested, that, although the ceremony of the church had not been performed, she was contracted to Fathom by the most solemn vows, to witness which he invoked all the saints in heaven. The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom
Those in the back seat explored levels of cramp unfathomable before this trip.
There is neither harsh injustice nor unprincipled love nor Christological heresy in that; there is only unfathomable mercy.
Voting to replace a broad-based democratic form of government with a caudillo and his cronies is so far outside the bounds of rationality as to be unfathomable. How Irrational are Voters?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
Yet this should not be presented as some unfathomable mystery. Times, Sunday Times
Indeed, the two seemed bound by a strange, unfathomable complicity. The Times Literary Supplement
The only good thing is the very un-PC Family Guy and even then the system of repeats is unfathomable with a seemingly autistically random method of scheduling which defies all logic. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
And in the process instilled in us some uncanny, extremely unique, weird and peculiar inability and incapacity to fathom how this place works.
It is hard to fathom the pain felt at the death of a child.
My fella likes cliff-top walks for some reason that I can't fathom.
Southeast, the grounde to be flatte, for neuerthelesse at a full sea, there is eurey where foure fathome water keeping the right The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863
You can analyze a Mozart piano concerto note by note and still not fathom the genius of the whole piece.
It was gorgeous, and traveled beautifully, probably as a result of the nearly unfathomable extent of the butterfat which is its primary reason for being. Tarts
War dramas such as the film, “Kinyarwanda,” about the 1994 genocide in Rwanda deepen people's awareness of unfathomable violence. Sundance Film Festival Kicks Off
That computers still can't fathom some of the Tartar's famous combinations will come as a relief to many.
It was the summer before her 9th grade year, months that dwelled in limbo between gradually evaporating innocence and a monsoon of unfathomed tears.
Now an obscure Texan company has launched an equally unfathomable claim to royalties on the transmission of compressed digital images.
At 20 fathoms the winze came out into the side of a large stope which was curved so that despite being on the footwall there was a grave danger of sliding over the edge.
I wish I could fathom Aunt Jessica's reasons for her attempts at involving me in her social mountebankery. The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel
This is where what I called the bottomless or fathomless self, the last version of the self, makes its appearance. THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND
All his life, the scholar attempt to render science fathomable to the public.
How could you possibly fathom how much he cares for you?
But it is always a delicate matter to fathom the depth of a medical man's sagaciousness. Archibald Malmaison
All this would be almost unfathomable to the generation before us. Times, Sunday Times
So he will never be where the fathomless manhole awaits, where the safe falls from the high window shrieking like a bomb-he is a pilot through Earth's baddest minefields, if we only stay close to him, be where he is as much as we can-yet Maximilian's doom is never to go any further into danger than its dapperness, its skin-exciting first feel .... Gravity's Rainbow
All his life, the scholar attempt to render science fathomable to the public.
He could not fathom the depths of her reserve but determined he would test it well before the night was out. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
Growing up, I would have never fathomed this was ever possible. Cathrine Kraayeveld: Finding Female Role Models on the Court
This done, he took up the pingo and moved away from the spot; but at the distance of about a fathom or two, laid it down again, and ripping open one of the bundles, took out of it all the contents, Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon
His scruples are never in doubt; he's as clear a bad guy as you could fathom while maintaining a semblance of authenticity.
She soaks the dried chickpeas in cold water and a mixture of bicarb, flour and salt – the last, according to Harold McGee, speeds the eventual cooking time, but reduces the swelling of starch granules within the beans, giving a "mealy internal texture, rather than a smooth one", but the rationale behind the flour I'm unable to fathom. How to make perfect hummus
It is impossible to fathom such depths of sheer callousness. The Sun
There it was, clear and belfried as of old, but fathoms deep, and the bells had so faint a chime that Reddin's voice drowned them. Gone to Earth
When they summon up the realm of the familiar, you step into an entirely new world with much knowingness or willingness yet find it hard to fathom their essential meaning.
Fortunately in trying to fathom out what happened next we have the advantage of the known laws of science.
A man leaped into the chains, and lowering down the lead sounded in seven fathoms.
Like you, I struggle to fathom what this will mean for farmers, ranchers, and rural America.
Lula -- issued from a very poor family in the poor northeast, and a former metalworker -- rattled the nerves of the old-style Brazilian sub-imperialist comprador elite to an extent that is hard to fathom abroad. Pepe Escobar: Is Brazil the New United States?
Any historian who has done long stints of research knows the frustration over his or her inability to communicate the fathomlessness of the archives and the bottomlessness of the past. The New Age of the Book
It was almost unfathomable to me how she could get through it all as a pregnant woman. Times, Sunday Times
In a post-industrial London, Whitecapel has been walled off by the strange deific figure known as Grandfather Clock, inscrutible and unwilling consort to the even more unfathomable Mama Engine. WHITECHAPEL GODS & LEVIATHAN – A STEAMPUNK EXTRAVAGANZA! | Open Society Book Club Discussions and Reviews
It is frenetic, expensive, sleazy, unfathomable.
Mysterius the Unfathomable #5 - The leader of the witch’s coven is revealed, Blake makes a comeback, and Ella Tamblyn speaks some harsh truths. May « 2009 « Axiom's Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy
Redknapp, perhaps the only modern day manager to still have the word 'cobblers' in his vernacular which is a good thing, cannot fathom the hate the modern day football fan vents. NEWS.com.au | Top Stories
Under his leadership, the Tory Party sank to unfathomed levels of unpopularity and contempt.
Harrison looked so strong that they couldn't fathom him breaking down.
The fact of the matter is that the autopsical research revealed absolutely nothing but a general disorganisation of the blood-corpuscles, a most peculiar thing, but one the significance of which none of us here can fathom. The Dream Doctor
Oodles and oodles of it, my gentlemen, in cask and chest, in cask and chest, a fathom under the sand. CHAPTER IX
In the troubled debate about the nature of evil, few crimes raise more difficult or unfathomable questions than those of child killers.
I say that this functional difference is vast, unfathomable, and truly infinite in its consequences; and I say at the same time, that it may depend upon structural differences which shall be absolutely inappreciable to us with our present means of investigation. Essays
Then he slots the settings, the characters, and the plot into reductive schemata accompanied by unfathomable diagrams which only lend the appearance of user-friendliness.
That's something I've always found unfathomable.
It is unfathomable for the human mind to perceive a total void, bleak and empty to all meaning and organization.
The immanent Trinity is the life of God as experienced by God: it is a mystery we cannot fathom.
The thought of the fathoms of water that once covered the very spot she stands on almost suffocates her; she feels bogged down in prairie grass and sloughs; she interiorizes the continental river system as if features of the human body.
The difficulty was to fathom Miss Rachel.
Bach invokes these emotions within a structure so crystalline that we can't begin to fathom its perfection.
Its wrought iron surface stared at him impassively, the fathomless depths of shadow that served as eyeholes piercing him like knives.
Only the reasons are unfathomable. Times, Sunday Times
The frontiersman was a trial-and-error empiricist, who believed in his own ability to fathom the depths of the problems which plagued him. The Fair Play Settlers of the West Branch Valley, 1769-1784 A Study of Frontier Ethnography
The harbour is four fathoms deep.
It is that modern version - and warped policies that could be collectively called Reaganism - that has given us an unfathomable national debt, a wide gulf between the nation's rich and poor, the denial of basic science on energy and the environment, and which was even used to justify an unjustifiable war in Iraq that the real Gipper himself would never undertaken. Attytood
He had been so simple to understand, and her parents were unfathomable.
Exhausted and in constant pain, she had to contend with vast, unfathomable personality changes that made her capricious, indecisive, impatient and intolerant.
I'm having difficulty using my video editing equipment and can't fathom out the various connections.
It is hard to fathom the pain felt at the death of a child.
flowingness" of time to an eternal now; but even at these moments it is conscious of an unfathomable background, one aspect of which is the immensity of space and the other the flowingness of time. The Complex Vision
Its glassy surface gently scintillating with a myriad of colours, the monocle seemed to hold unfathomable power within its relatively small size.
It is impossible to fathom such depths of sheer callousness. The Sun
I just can't fathom people who could have a quiet life, who don't have to be controversial for a living, but do it anyway.
For reasons fathomable only to those who live in that city, the Senate decided to debate the theory of relativity. How Einstein Divided America's Jews
Fair Isle in September is still the most reliable place in Europe to see a lanceolated warbler, and a text message bouncing up and down between the sky and the earth told me that one had arrived from equally unfathomable distances and had been found just a mile south of where I was. A Year on the Wing
It is a grim pilgrimage, a pilgrimage under duress, during which he is beset by threatening forces which he cannot fathom and yet needs to comprehend if he is to survive.
So the idea of doing so with no preparation—no buildup time to get used to the idea of winging your body across the continent—was even more unfathomable. Miss Misery
However this was impossible since the Fathometer concurrently indicated that the ground level was almost 2,000 meters deep. False Front
Word of the venture spread among the miners, who at first could not fathom camels lumbering into their camps, but Laumeister made the caravans a familiar sight.
And we all know that, for some unfathomable reason that is not unconnected with human nature.
I'm having difficulty using my video editing equipment and can't fathom out the various connections.
They couldn't even fathom what I was feeling.
Considering the wondrous richness and variety of the terrestrial life wrought out by the few sunbeams which we catch in our career through space, we may well pause overwhelmed and stupefied at the thought of the incalculable possibilities of existence which are thrown away with the potent actinism that darts unceasingly into the unfathomed abysms of immensity. The Unseen World, and Other Essays
Both used the angular outlines, the burning transparencies, the fixed but still unfathomable symbols of the great mediæval civilisation; but Rossetti used the religious imagery (on the whole) irreligiously, Christina Rossetti used it religiously but (on the whole) so to make it seem a narrower religion. The Victorian Age in Literature
The leadsman was a rather pompous individual, duly impressed with the importance of his position, in having charge of the deep-sea line, which was something short of two fathoms in length. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 423 Volume 17, New Series, February 7, 1852
As the river sweeps away our words and thoughts, our mind gets out of the way to make room for the waves of joy that will soon engulf us and take us on unfathomable spiritual journeys. The Bushman Way of Tracking God
But I still couldn't quite fathom the idea of living with Dad.
For some reason, and I have yet to fathom why, this place isn't particularly well known.
Equally, no plumb line can fathom the depths of my misery at sitting through this overlong, mediocre serial. Times, Sunday Times
It never goes dark, so changeover point between night and day is hard to fathom - especially after one too many pints of Sonny Priest's Jubilee Ale, a hoppy little number brewed especially for the occasion.
I dropped fathoms in seconds and surfaced in minutes without the benefit of decompression. BLOOD IS DIRT
Here we found 45. fathoms oze, and all the night was very darke with fogge. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
He has a broad benignant brow, like Benjamin Franklin's; but his brooding eyes, golden, unfathomable, deny benignancy. Americans and Others
Their folkways, foods and fads are unfathomable to ordinary Americans.
Unless he has some deep-laid scheme that I do not fathom, he isgiving up great advantages…. FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871
How can a non-executive be expected to fathom the depths of Congolese mining rights? Times, Sunday Times
The human toll in the devastating Iranian earthquake seems almost unfathomable.
Not only was the Buddha able to fathom the impossibly large, but he was also proficient in the realm of the impossibly tiny, explaining how many atoms there were in the yojana, an ancient unit of length of around 10 kilometers. HERE’S LOOKING AT EUCLID
All of them share the sumptuous voicing of an eight part choir (except the seven voiced Full fathom five from Three ShakespeareSongs) that requires two groups of sopranos, altos, tenors, and basses.
This test question is only fathomable when one connects that it's also the name of the UVA men's athletic teams. Baronets, Bad and Otherwise
Every five fathoms he flicked at the line and a coble came swinging up out of the net room, over the gunwale and into the water. THE MAIN CAGES
It retains this same transformative power today, but one has to hear it and do it to fathom fully its life-changing power. Christianity Today
It's one of those twee, child-centric works that sift through the last shakings of the postmodernist bag for ways to enliven their inch-deep whimsy and fathomless solipsism – crapulous, cod-Vonnegut cutesiness being Foer's weakness – and often presume an intimacy with grave and terrible events, the better to drape themselves in the mantle of importance. Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close gleams with Oscar worthiness
We trolled a zig-zag course along a drop-off, the deep water hitting 150 fathoms.
As it was, his guideship on the extreme left had but a fathom of water under her keel. The Story of the Barbary Corsairs
Her eyes were of the Oriental type, -- full, heavy-lidded, ambushed in thick, black lashes, -- themselves dark and unfathomable as the long night of mystery which hangs over the history of her wild and wandering race, those unsubduable, unseducible children of Nature, -- the voluntary Pariahs of the world. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859
Cruz, where we anchored at half-past nine on Sunday morning in twenty-five fathoms water, and moored along shore in the same depth, with the cupola tower of the church of St. Francis bearing west half north one mile, the east part of the road east by north, the castle on the south point south-west, and the west part of the Grand Canary south-south-east. A Voyage to the South Sea For The Purpose Of Conveying The Bread-Fruit Tree To The West Indies, Including An Account Of The Mutiny On Board The Ship
Its life is about short-term conflicts, blazing rows in the pub, so to speak, mysterious plots and unfathomable motivations.
Those letters have been stealingly copied; but, which of them, when, or by whom, is to me, as yet, an unfathomable secret. The Life of George Washington, Vol. 2 (of 5) Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States
Howland was a brave man; he had already showed both strength and prowess when, washed overboard in a "seel" of the ship, and carried fathoms deep in mid-ocean, he caught the topsail-halyards swept over with him and clung to them until he was rescued in spite of the raging wind and waves that repeatedly dragged him under; nor in the face of savage foe, or savage beast, or peril by land or sea, was John Howland ever known less than the foremost; but now in face of this angry woman he found naught to say, and blushing and stammering and half laughing fairly turned and ran away, springing up the stairs to the elevated deck cabins, in one of which Elder Brewster and his family had their lodging. Standish of Standish A story of the Pilgrims
Chewing my lips, I looked over the pool edge again; the deep unfathomable blue sped up my pulse rate and made my head spin.
I just couldn't fathom that at age 9, and even now, while I understand the psychological and social mechanisms behind it, it still seems, as you tagged your post, "unbe-freakin-lievable. Sometimes You Just Wonder
Just as you can tell at sight whether certain persons attract or repel you, through some unknown, nameless influence that you are unable to fathom; so, in like degree, can you decide -- that is, if you possess a naturally sensitive mind -- whether they are drawn towards yourself or remain antipathetical. She and I, Volume 1
Oodles and oodles of it, gold and gold and better than gold, in cask and chest, in cask and chest, a fathom under the sand," the CHAPTER IX
I sit up to see myself safe through the narrow passage between Flat Island and Round Island, and fall asleep at last to the monotonous chant of so many "fathoms and no bottom," for we take soundings every five minutes or so in this reefy region. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878.
His greatest weakness may well be his seemingly fathomless personal vanity.
The biting winds, freezing rain, and skiffs of snow felt like a judgment by God for some unfathomable sin.
Is it because in the end it will involve for some, if not for all, majesty on unfathomed majesty, and glory upon unimaginable glory such as at present far outpass the limits of our thought? When the World Shook; being an account of the great adventure of Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot
Tiga stengah," which means three fathom and a half. Youth And Two Other Stories
The images speak of a steadily deepening familiarity - and one that only opens the eyes wider to an unfathomable mystery. Times, Sunday Times
It looms towards us, shrouded by fathoms of blue water.
Don't know, Billy," was the reply, as the beautiful fish was hauled in, unhooked, a fresh lask or tongue of silvery bait put on, and the leaded line thrown over and allowed to run out fathoms astern once again. In the King's Name The Cruise of the "Kestrel"
Fathometer soundings showed it was on a steep upward slope of the continental shelf. Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung
The narrows are less than eighteen hundred feet and the depth varies from sixty-six fathoms to less than twenty, even in midstream. DESTROY THE KENTUCKY
Far more absorbing, though, is the unfathomable abyss between the outward appearance of some of the prisoners and the crimes they have committed. Times, Sunday Times
If your boat is in the water and cannot be trailered, move it offshore to waters over 200 fathoms deep as soon as a Tsunami Warning is declared.
But for some unfathomable reason these are seen as negative qualities. The Sun
It is through this wisdom, or what I call awareness, that you can live in a vast, unfathomable world, and be happy. Mass Density

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