Stretching

Examples

• I was just stretching my legs, when out bounced another woman on me. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• She was so alone, with the level, unliving field of the water stretching beneath her. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Which contained--' interposed Monks, stretching forward. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• In effect, I am of no country,' said Mr Blandois, stretching out his leg and smiting it: 'I descend from half-a-dozen countries. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• He saw vividly with his spirit the grey, forward-stretching face of the negro woman, African and tense, abstracted in utter physical stress. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• They entered it in one of its lowest points, and drove for some time through a beautiful wood stretching over a wide extent. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Watson, in San Francisco, over a wire stretching 3,400 miles across the continent. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• There are great trees standing all about it, with their branches stretching long and level, and making a deep shade of rest even at noonday. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• This bar-clasp could be moved backward and forward on a rod as the spinner’s hand would do when stretching the thread and winding it on. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The bridge, 800 feet long, is a single span, supported by four enormous cables of wire stretching from the Canadian cliff to the opposite United States cliff. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• At last he turned, still resting against the chair, and stretching his hand automatically towards his hat, said with a sort of exasperation, Good-by. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Dear Rosy, lay down your work and come to sit by me, he said, gently, pushing away the table, and stretching out his arm to draw a chair near his own. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Stretching out his long legs, he crossed the pathless portion of the heath somewhat in the direction which Wildeve had taken. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• He also had earthenware drums across which skins were stretched; perhaps also he made drums by stretching skins over hollow tree stems. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• To which the person of the house, stretching out her arm in an attitude of command, replied with irresponsive asperity: 'Go along with you! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.

Editor: Woodrow