Stretches

Examples

• A reef of rocks, black and rough, stretches far into the sea. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• To run my hand along the Chain, when found, until I come to the part of it which stretches over the edge of the rocks, down into the quicksand. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• An extremely wide flank-membrane stretches from the corners of the jaw to the tail, and includes the limbs with the elongated fingers. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Even the land about Chat Moss was bought up and improved, and all along the line what had been waste stretches began to blossom into towns and villages. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• It seemed as if the bonfire-makers were standing in some radiant upper story of the world, detached from and independent of the dark stretches below. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• She goes down from the block, stops, looks wistfully back,--her daughter stretches her hands towards her. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Sorrows is more plentiful than dinners just now; I reckon, my dinner hour stretches all o'er the day; yo're pretty sure of finding me. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• After some delay, and several stretches of his wings which came to nothing, he soared to the drawing-rooms. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• A piece of copper wire, connected with an electric battery, stretches from the disc against which you have spoken to another disc miles and miles away. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• A happy, animated scene stretches away as far as the eye can see. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Such men are the sparkling streams that flow through the dusty stretches of a nation. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Up there it looked like a trout stream, flowing swiftly with shallow stretches and pools under the shadow of the rocks. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Beyond that bleak twilight stretches the darkness of Russia. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Tested by this rule there was scarcely an inventor in the field of steam in all the long stretches of time preceding the seventeenth century. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• He stretches out the arm of Mezentius, and fetters the dead to the living. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• When we wish to speak, muscular effort stretches the cords, draws them closer together, and reduces the opening between them to a narrow slit, as in the case of the organ pipe. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• To the north, between the city and Walnut Springs, stretches an extensive plain. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• From my Lord Boodle, through the Duke of Foodle, down to Noodle, Sir Leicester, like a glorious spider, stretches his threads of relationship. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• But what carries a person over these hard stretches is not loyalty to duty in the abstract, but interest in his occupation. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Dark through the wilderness of this world stretches the way for most of us: equal and steady be our tread; be our cross our banner. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Beyond this charmed circle, for miles on every side, stretches a weary desert of sand and gravel, which produces a gray bunchy shrub like sage-brush. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• It is hard to believe that daily life continues with its stretches of boredom and its personal interests even while the enemy is bombarding a city. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• We have seen that the pressure of the atmosphere at any point is due to the weight of the air column which stretches from that point far up into the sky above. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The bit, the saddle, the stirrup, these are not primitive things, but they are necessary if man and horse are to keep going for long stretches. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

Typist: Meg