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There was little room in his mood for sustained thought: his wits were fathoming a bottomless pit of black despair.

From The Lone Wolf A Melodrama by Vance, Louis Joseph

The vacant eyes in the faded face of the mother were fathoming distances remote from the four walls of the slatternly room.

From Joan Thursday by Vance, Louis Joseph