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I was fathoming the depths of her soul-lighted, lustrous grey eyes; and, contiguity is sometimes apt in such circumstances, I am told, to hurry one into the rashness of desperation, bringing matters to a crisis.

From She and I, Volume 1 by Hutcheson, John C. (John Conroy)

He knew that that judicial mind was fathoming and understanding his past relations with Maria upon the evidence he had himself furnished.

From Old Kaskaskia by Catherwood, Mary Hartwell

The Countess had plunged in a kind of stupor; to me, watching her, it seemed that she was fathoming the depths of the abyss into which she had fallen.

From Gobseck by Marriage, Ellen