18 collocations for plumbed

He moved on, his breath clouding the early air, and his hands plunged deep in his pockets as if to plumb their depth.

This genial ornament of our regimental sanitary squad is especially anxious to plumb the mysteries of arithmetic.

Who can weigh them, who can plumb their souls?

And yet, in plumbing the abyss for judgment, Something I strike upon which turns my mind Back on herself, I think, againmy breast Concentres all the terrors of the Universe: I look at him and tremble like a child.

Chip the cylinder bottom fair; set it in its place, plumb the cylinder very carefully with a straight edge and silk thread, and scribe it so as to bring the cylinder mouth to the right height, then chip the sole plate to suit that height.

So plumb I the deeps of depression, Daily in deeper, and find no support, no will, no purpose.

Having thus reached the lower end of the table, there are a quantity of hooks fitted to strong wooden arms, which revolve round a stout pillar, and which, in describing the circle, plumb the lower end of the table.

You plumb fool!

When he spoke again, it was in the tentative manner of his earlier interrogatory, committing himself not at all, seeking to plumb his opponent's knowledge.

Here we plumb some profounder lawdeeper than the ordinary laws of nature.

His smile was wide and went as deep as his emotions had thus far plumbed his nature, and his voice had the exultant note of a child who has wonderful news to tell.

He plumbed an abysmal trouser pocket with a vast red hand, paid his cabman, and came panting resolutely up the steps, a copy of the pink paper clutched about the middle, like Jove's thunderbolt, in his hand.

See that fat Tahitian thrust his finger into the sides of the octopus to plumb its cooking qualities.

Then for a moment his eyes plumbed the shadows into which they looked.

What could he ask better than to risk his insignificant personality in some gigantic, mad attempt to plumb the Unknown, with that slender, little pale-faced Beauty by his side?

On her knees before an oven that billowed forth hotly into her face, Mrs. Kantor, fairly fat and not yet forty, and at the immemorial task of plumbing a delicately swelling layer-cake with broom-straw, raised her face, reddened and faintly moist.

He plumbed an abysmal trouser pocket with a vast red hand, paid his cabman, and came panting resolutely up the steps, a copy of the pink paper clutched about the middle, like Jove's thunderbolt, in his hand.

They run the Yankees plumb out er that country.

18 collocations for  plumbed