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Example sentences for "three fathom"

  • And I says it's three fathom," growled Josh dogmatically.

  • Three fathom o' water here, my lad," whispered Josh, as with his companion he leaned over the side and gazed down at the rocks below.

  • Why, there's three fathom o' water under where we sit.

  • With this view I kept plying on and off all night, having from eighty to sixty-three fathom.

  • We continued to stand off and on all this day and the next, keeping at the distance of between four and twelve leagues from the shore, and having water from thirty-five to fifty-three fathom.

  • On the west side of the island is a channel of three fathom at low-water, of which depth it is also within, where ships may haul in and careen.

  • In this bay there is any depth of water from thirty to three fathom, very good oazy holding ground.

  • Within this ledge there is two or three fathom water, and without it no less than ten or twelve fathom close to the rocks.

  • A draught of foaming ale, a whiff or two from a clay pipe, a look out of the window to be assured that Pony had subsided, and we take leave of the corporate authority of Three Fathom Harbor, and are once more on the road.

  • At seven in the evening we came to an anchor in thirty-three fathom, muddy ground; the south point of the island bearing S.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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