Fathoms
[fæðəmz]
Examples
- It is shown that at the depth of 43,528 fathoms below the surface of the earth, air is only one fourth less heavy than mercury. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- He went down to his room, and buried John Harmon many additional fathoms deep. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- We apply our measure to uniform extension, meting out the waters by fathoms or space by the sun's diame ter, and even subject time to arbitrary divisions. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Thus John Rokesmith in the morning, and it buried John Harmon still many fathoms deeper than he had been buried in the night. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Down, down with him, fifty fathoms down; his struggles grew fainter and fainter, until they wholly ceased. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- On deep five fathoms, and anchored fast to the bottom. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The houses sunk outright, thirty or forty fathoms deep. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Now this depth of 43,528 fathoms is only a seventy-fourth part of the semi-diameter of the earth. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
Typist: Waldo