Even though the werowance himself were acting in good faith, might not others of the chiefs have plotted to put an end to the white man whose coming and whose staying were so beyond their Fathoming?
"The Princess Pocahontas"
Virginia Watson
Thousands of volumes and essays have been written on poetry, and instead of Fathoming a true conception of its nature, they have dealt with the trappings and garments which clothe it; these indeed have often been confused with poetry itself.
"The Literature of Ecstasy"
Albert Mordell
She leaned over the rail, with the cool, soft, refreshing air bathing her burning forehead, and watched one brilliant point of light-soft and lambent-that was near the surface, and then moved slowly down lower and lower into the dark depths that seemed beyond Fathoming; and, as she watched it, the fancy came upon her that these points of light might be lives like hers, wearied out and now resting and gliding here and there in the soft transparent darkness at her feet.
"The Master of the Ceremonies"
George Manville Fenn