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He thought he had fathomed the secret of Mr. King's success: "He knows perfectly when to laugh, and especially not to laugh while others are laughing."

From Time Magazine Archive

"You're a queer hand, Gammon," replied Quirk, with almost an equally surprised and embarrassed air, for he could not resist a sort of conviction that Gammon had fathomed what had been passing in his mind.

From Ten Thousand a-Year. Volume 1. by Warren, Samuel

Even Mrs. Inchbald and Mrs. Reveley, hard as life had gone with them, had never approached the depth of misery which she had fathomed.

From Mary Wollstonecraft by Pennell, Elizabeth Robins

Charlotte had fathomed what he had feared to look at.

From How It All Came Round by Meade, L. T.

It proved afterwards that I had fathomed but half his plan.

From Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land by Reid, Mayne