In gaugingfathomless deeps with his little mean excise-rod, and in staggering over the universe with his rusty stiff-legged compasses, he had meant to do great things.

"People of New England!" cried he, with a voice that rose over them, high, solemn, and majestic -- yet had always a tremor through it, and sometimes a shriek, struggling up out of afathomless depth of remorse and woe -- "ye, that have loved me!

They had been hurled down into thefathomless great deeps of the crevice.

Oh, old age is coming, cold and inexorable; it envelops in its funereal crape all that was brilliant, all that was embalming in my youth; then it throws that sweet burthen on its shoulders and carries it away with the rest into thefathomless gulf of death."

I saw the preliminary heaving of the Sand, and then the awful shiver that crept over its surface--as if some spirit of terror lived and moved and shuddered in thefathomless deeps beneath.

We set our faces towards London, and walked on together in the first still hour of the new day--I, and this woman, whose name, whose character, whose story, whose objects in life, whose very presence by my side, at that moment, werefathomless mysteries to me.

I lingered at the gates; I lingered on the lawn; I paced backwards and forwards on the pavement; the shutters of the glass door were closed; I could not see into the interior; and both my eyes and spirit seemed drawn from the gloomy house--from the grey-hollow filled with rayless cells, as it appeared to me--to that sky expanded before me,--a blue sea absolved from taint of cloud; the moon ascending it in solemn march; her orb seeming to look up as she left the hill-tops, from behind which she had come, far and farther below her, and aspired to the zenith, midnight dark in itsfathomless depth and measureless distance; and for those trembling stars that followed her course; they made my heart tremble, my veins glow when I viewed them.

It was not an excitement or a perplexity; it was a placid,fathomless sense of diversion.

Not a single person was in sight, and the stir of the wind in the branches, that sound so seldom heard by Londoners, seemed to her as if wafted fromfathomless oceans of sweet air in the distance.

The Western mind penetrated the Chinese mind but a short distance when it found itself in afathomless maze.

From tiers of staircase windows clogged lamps like the eyes of Equity, bleared Argus with afathomless pocket for every eye and an eye upon it, dimly blink at the stars.

But if, instead of identifying ourselves with the work, we feel that the soul of the workman streams through us, we shall find the peace of the morning dwelling first in our hearts, and thefathomless powers of gravity and chemistry, and, over them, of life, preexisting within us in their highest form.