Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sounding lead. The sounding wire rattled from the drum. Ten fathoms of it ran off into the depths, 20 fathoms, 30 fathoms, 100 fathoms. The drum rolled and rolled and rolled?a mile of wire sank into the briny deep. Two miles, three miles, four miles. Still no bottom. Five miles, and the drum still paid out the wire. Down, down, six miles. The wire was not much longer. Still the lead went down. At last, the drum stopped rolling. Nearly six and a quarter miles of wire had been paid out?...
WHAT PRICE GLORY??Two marines fighting over a French girl for two acts, and against Germany for one. Permitting you to peer into the bottom of the cup and see the dregs...
...shone against his face?a very brown face, drawn taut with the whip of sea-salt. "What good is the Cup to America when you have nothing to put in it?" asked he. "I understand the only thing you have left to put in it would burn the bottom...
...unpleasant to climb through the top of the ZR-3's passenger cabin to the "cat-walk" running through the bottom of the hull? which provides only an 8-inch footing and 2-foot rail room at the top? for a walk that must be solitary and executed with great caution...
...money was then deposited in a tall, trumpet-shaped vase in the temple," Professor Lake continued. "It tinkled through to the bottom and then returned to the money lenders' tables where it was again exchanged for Roman money, and the same fee again charged...