" We were now able to see one half of the broad expanse of the Pacific, which glistened with the brightness of quicksilver or polished steel.

The eye, rejoicing in its freedom, roves about the vast expanse, yet returns again and again to the fountain peaks.

The great ocean spreads out, a boundless expanse.

She dreamed of its immense blue expanse sparkling under the sun, with the white sails of the small vessels, and a mountain on the horizon.

It is bounded on each side by a low sea wall, behind which a dreary expanse of marsh and salting spreads away into the far distance.

On the south side stretched a white, unbroken expanse of sand a hundred feet or more wide and ending against the low slope of the meadow land.

On the further side was a flat expanse of seemingly firm and dry sand, but no sooner had our elephants begun to cross it, than the whole sandbank for yards began to rock and tremble; the water welled up over the footmarks of the elephants, and S. called out to us, Fussun, Fussun!

At such brief instants my eyes swept the far horizon, to discern nothing except the desolate, endless expanse of sea.

Nouronihar and he, having ascended the steps of a vast staircase of black marble, reached the terrace, which was flagged with squares of marble and resembled a smooth expanse of water.

That room, looking towards the far expanse of sky and all the countryside, renascent, quivering with sap, was gilded with gayety by the early springtide.

On the doorstep I found Polton peering with anxious face into the blank expanse of yellow vapour.

On one side of them, flanking their line of march, were the cliffs of the Great Bight, against which thundered the ever-restless southern rollers; on the other there stretched a limitless expanse of dark, gloomy scrub.

The round port stood partly open, and through it I could see the gray expanse of water.

This magnificent expanse would make seven states as large as Pennsylvania, or three and a half as large as Oregon, and is only 6000 acres less than the total area of the thirteen original states with their present boundaries.

Several islets were apparently breaking its watery expanse, but these also were only heaps of sand raised from the surrounding flat.

And down the river's dim expanse Like some bold seer in a trance, Seeing all his own mischance With a glassy countenance Did she look to Camelot.

This portion of Grenelle, lying between the Champ de Mars and the densely populated streets of the centre of the district, has an aspect all its own, characterized by vast bare expanses, and long and almost deserted streets running at right angles and fringed by factories with lofty, interminable gray walls.

At such brief instants my eyes swept the far horizon, to discern nothing except the desolate, endless expanse of sea.

In the western cotton belt the plantations were much like those of the eastern, except that the more uniform fertility often permitted the fields to lie in solid expanses instead of being sprawled and broken by waste lands as in the Piedmont.

When the sandy expanse is crowded with merry children, the roads and seats above filled with spectators, and the water with members of both sexes in varied costumes and "headgears"not forgetting the boatman in the tiny skiff who is here, there, and everywhere in case he is neededthe scene is a very pleasant one to look upon.

All over this yellow expanse of grass, relieved in places by patches of dark bush, are great herds of wild game slowly moving as they graze.

At every turn a new and wonderful panorama of green and yellow landscape and azure expanse of water bursts upon the lucky traveler along this blessed highway.

It is a wonderful sight this strange barren expanse of stone and gravel, with here and there a small encampment of railway labourers, after passing through the luxuriant Valley of the Nile, teeming with production and life, animal and vegetable.

The puppy was in spasms of excitement over the discovery of a considerable expanse of bare legs.

They were mostly of enormous corpulency, spreading out their naked feet and trousered legs of an enormous expanse.