All 6 Uses of
fathom
in
Jane Eyre
- And then my mind made its first earnest effort to comprehend what had been infused into it concerning heaven and hell; and for the first time it recoiled, baffled; and for the first time glancing behind, on each side, and before it, it saw all round an unfathomed gulf: it felt the one point where it stood — the present; all the rest was formless cloud and vacant depth; and it shuddered at the thought of tottering, and plunging amid that chaos.†
Chpt 9
- …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 its fathomless 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.†
Chpt 12
- All their class held these principles: I supposed, then, they had reasons for holding them such as I could not fathom.†
Chpt 18 *
- — that opened upon a careful observer, now and then, in his eye, and closed again before one could fathom the strange depth partially disclosed; that something which used to make me fear and shrink, as if I had been wandering amongst volcanic-looking hills, and had suddenly felt the ground quiver and seen it gape: that something, I, at intervals, beheld still; and with throbbing heart, but not with palsied nerves.†
Chpt 18
- One never knows what she has, sir: she is so cunning: it is not in mortal discretion to fathom her craft.†
Chpt 26
- St. John's eyes, though clear enough in a literal sense, in a figurative one were difficult to fathom.†
Chpt 29
Definition:
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(fathom as in: can't fathom) to come to understand