Famous quotes containing the word fathoms:
“Fathoms down, fathoms down, how Ill dream fast asleep.”
—Herman Melville (18191891)
“And down in fathoms many went the captain and the crew;
Down went the ownersgreedy men whom hope of gain
allured:
Oh, dry the starting tear, for they were heavily insured.”
—Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (18361911)
“When the ice is covered with snow, I do not suspect the wealth under my feet; that there is as good as a mine under me wherever I go. How many pickerel are poised on easy fin fathoms below the loaded wain! The revolution of the seasons must be a curious phenomenon to them. At length the sun and wind brush aside their curtain, and they see the heavens again.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
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