It is shown that at the depth of 43,528 fathoms below the surface of the earth, air is only one fourth less heavy than mercury. 本杰明·富兰克林.富兰克林自传.
He went down to his room, and buried John Harmon many additional fathoms deep. 查尔斯·狄更斯.我们共同的朋友.
We apply our measure to uniform extension, meting out the waters by fathoms or space by the sun's diame ter, and even subject time to arbitrary divisions. 李贝.西洋科学史.
Thus John Rokesmith in the morning, and it buried John Harmon still many fathoms deeper than he had been buried in the night. 查尔斯·狄更斯.我们共同的朋友.
Down, down with him, fifty fathoms down; his struggles grew fainter and fainter, until they wholly ceased. 查尔斯·狄更斯.匹克威克外传.
On deep five fathoms, and anchored fast to the bottom. 马克·吐温.傻子出国记.
The houses sunk outright, thirty or forty fathoms deep. 本杰明·富兰克林.富兰克林自传.
Now this depth of 43,528 fathoms is only a seventy-fourth part of the semi-diameter of the earth. 本杰明·富兰克林.富兰克林自传.