Sentence examples for two fathoms from inspiring English sources

Mark twain is a riverman's phrase for water found to be two fathoms (12 feet, or 3.7 metres) deep.

By late 1862, he was a full-time newspaperman in Virginia City, and on Feb. 3, 1863, he decided to sign an article with the name "Mark Twain," an old river expression that meant "two fathoms".

They lay there for hours, dropping cherries into the water which lay "like drops of blood on the sandy floor two fathoms below" and Nancy "like an otter" would bring them up in her teeth.

Its connotations in actual use were variable: depending on a steamboat's draft (the depth of water required for it to float) and on whether the steamboat was moving into or out of deeper water, two fathoms could represent either safe passage or hazardous shallows.

On our last day, we went in search of Lawrence's favorite swimming spot, which he called "our private bathing-pool; four puffs of cypress, deep clean-cut diving ledges above two fathoms of blue water, and a floor of clean pebbles".

Near Hook Mountain, a tall stone outcropping on the west bank a mile north of Nyack, the bosun dropped a line with a lead sinker to the bottom, to determine the depth just as Hudson's crew did (two fathoms, or about 12 feet, akin to what Jouet recorded).

Two Fathom employees were so confident in Fathom's volunteering that they told me that the problems facing these Dominican communities problems Fathom is hardly the first organization to attempt to fix will soon be solved entirely.

This sill lies about a hundred and fifty fathoms beneath the surface.

Ariel's "Full fathom five thy father lies" becomes "Five fathoms deep/Your father lies".

Their eggs average 1 mm (0.04 inch) in diameter, are buoyant, and drift in the uppermost five fathoms of water.

So, despite their impressive sweep, are the planetary currents, which seldom involve more than the upper several hundred fathoms.