Extended

Examples

• His right extended to the back-water up the ravine opening into the Cumberland south of the village. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• As he extended his hand with a magnificently forgiving air, and as I was broken by illness and unfit to quarrel, I took it. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• From these ends is extended the spindle of Necessity, on which all the revolutions turn. Plato. The Republic.
• The Eastern German front was more extended and less systematically entrenched than the Western. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• In agriculture the raising of grain has extended in the Nineteenth Century to enormous proportions. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• They had been searching among the northern hordes, and only within the past few days had they extended their quest to the south. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• Canler turned and extended his hand. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• The semaphore consisted of an upright post, having arms on each side, that could be readily extended, at any given angle. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• If extended in straight lines, it would build a track of two rails to the moon, and more than a hundred thousand miles beyond it. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The doors were at the ends, a row of seats ran along each side of the interior, and a long deal table extended down the centre. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• As his arms and legs had been extended stiffly upward as he came to earth upon his back the attitude of death was anything but impressive. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Soon the Grand Trunk Railroad was extended from Toronto to Port Huron, at the foot of Lake Huron, and thence to Detroit, at about the same time the War of the Rebellion broke out. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• She extended her hand with a smile. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• When the trade had extended into all the surrounding counties, however, the new business needed another prime essential of industry--transportation facilities. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• But Mr. Orton went on an extended tour just about that time. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Next appeared Arthur Young, of England, born in 1741, whose life was extended into the 19th century, and to whom the world was greatly indebted for the spread of agricultural knowledge. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• We shall have helped it, returned madame, with her extended hand in strong action. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Below, the water extended into the woods several hundred yards back from the bank on the east side. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• An improved and extended string telephone. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• But, as it was, she only learned, from some very significant looks, how far their penetration, founded on Margaret's instructions, extended. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• He fortified his new position, and our trenches were then extended from the left of our main line to connect with his new one. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Whatever is extended consists of parts; and whatever consists of parts is divisible, if not in reality, at least in the imagination. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Though at first confined to a length of 800 feet, the slide extended to include the entire basin south of Gold Hill, or a length of about 3,000 feet. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• They fell into his, while her arms, extended but not rigid, kept him far enough off to let her surrendered face say the rest. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Never once in their dialogues did I hear a syllable of regret at the hospitality they had extended to me, or of suspicion of, or aversion to, myself. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• With the clearing of her vision the sweep of peril had extended, and she saw that the post of danger was no longer at Dorset's side. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Special provision was also made for injecting streams of pulverized coal in such manner as to create the largely extended zone of combustion. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Rebecca, too, was in the room, and advanced to meet him with a smile and an extended hand. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Whatever marks the place of its existence either must be extended, or must be a mathematical point, without parts or composition. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Is it in every part without being extended? David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.

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