Vocabulary Word
Word: fathomless
Definition: too deep to be measured or understood; unfathomable
Definition: too deep to be measured or understood; unfathomable
Sentences Containing 'fathomless'
Standing in iron hoops nailed to the mast, they swayed and swung over a fathomless sea; and though, when the ship slowly glided close under our stern, we six men in the air came so nigh to each other that we might almost have leaped from the mast-heads of one ship to those of the other; yet, those forlorn-looking fishermen, mildly eyeing us as they passed, said not one word to our own look-outs, while the quarter-deck hail was being heard from below.
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