Example Sentences

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"She is very beautiful," I said to myself, "and very dangerous if she knows how to deceive; but I will fathom her and I will sound her heart; and she shall know who I am."

From The Confession of a Child of the Century by Warren, Kendall

How the reader will fathom this labyrinth of contradictions, and reconcile this conflict of historic opinion, is a question which does not trouble me, and I pass on to something more important.

From Junius Unmasked or, Thomas Paine the author of the Letters of Junius and the Declaration of Independence by Moody, Joel

Who will fathom the meaning of that sacrifice?

From Love's Final Victory by Horatio

He bears about him hidden discontent, and I will fathom to the lowest depth this most mysterious being!

From The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 6, June 1810 by Carpenter, S. C. (Stephen Cullen)

Some deep villainy lies at the bottom of this; but I will fathom it, ay, and thwart it, I swear by the God of Abraham.

From It Is Never Too Late to Mend by Reade, Charles