| 1. | Full fathom five thy father lie. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 2. | We fathom you not--we love you--there is perfection in you also. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 3. | Full fathom five thy father lies. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 4. | Another of his fathom they have non. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 5. | Another anchor was got ready and dropped in a fathom and a half of water. - from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson |
| 6. | Wish him ten fathom deep this Duke as muc. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 7. | within Fathom and half, fathom and half Poor To. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 8. | reached And twenty fathom broad its armes straugh. - from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer |
| 9. | "One never knows what she has, sir she is so cunning it is not in mortal discretion to fathom her craft.. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 10. | Reply not in how many fathoms dee. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 11. | Bury it certain fathoms in the earth. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 12. | --There's five fathoms out there, he said. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 13. | All this was ten fathoms distant from him. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 14. | For not by hook or by net could this vast leviathan be caught, when sailing a thousand fathoms beneath the sunlight. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 15. | A coil of new tow-line was then unwound, and some fathoms of it taken to the windlass, and stretched to a great tension. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 16. | They headed for a cliff by the shore--a cliff that ran down into deep water, and plunged into a dark hole at the foot of it, twenty fathoms under the sea. - from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling |
| 17. | Scrooge glanced about him on the floor, in the expectation of finding himself surrounded by some fifty or sixty fathoms of iron cable but he could see nothing. - from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens |
| 18. | His lynx eye immediately perceives the paper, recognises the handwriting of the address, observes the confusion of the personage addressed, and fathoms her secret. - from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe |