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Here, sing'd with lightning, roll within th 'unfathom'd space.
The Aeneid English 70 BC-19 BC Virgil
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Had hurl'd me, plung'd beneath th 'unfathom'd sea,
The Iliad 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1834
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Drawn, vainly struggling, to th 'unfathom'd grave!
The Sceptic 1820
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Leave their sweet lives beneath th'unfathom'd deep.
The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 1 Jonathan Swift 1706
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Here fing'd with'lightning, roll within th 'unfathom'd fpace.
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He peered into the unfathom-able mysteries of the heart, and ducked back to a smaller issue.
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It was recognized by the trustees of the British Museum that the problem of the Rosetta Stone was one which would test the ingenuity of the scientists of the world to unfathom, and they promptly published a carefully prepared copy of the entire inscription.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01 Rossiter Johnson 1885
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