173 adjectives to describe stretching

Just as there are vast stretches in the world where the foot of man has never trod, so there are unmeasured regions whereon prayer has never been.

"Here's a good, long, straight stretch of road for us to take it on.

The danger was in the glens, where the trees were sparser and the broad stretches of meadow made better going for horses.

The reward already proposed is, in my opinion, the utmost stretch of liberality; and all beyond may be censured as profusion.

Shall we follow the hot pavement, or shall we dare those lonely stretches?

Here and there throughout its length are little shallow stretches which show a golden braid down the centre like any peaceful meadow brook where children may with safety float their little boats, but Black Creek, with its precipitous holes, is no safe companion for any living creature that has not webbed toes or a guardian angel.

But I was afraid of the dark, of the wild uninhabited savage look of the landscape; though when I thought of it, there seemed no reason why a narrow stretch of country between two great towns should be alarming.

Then across the flat stretches, his shadow under him moving across moor and the sand of desert, slowing at the perpetually eastern edge of a mirage, brushing his actual wings against the brick of city walls; the garret of a dreamer, brain-sick with reality.

Before them lay the sandy stretch of beach hard as a dancing floor, and well fitted to be their "jumping off" place.

At one point a considerable stretch of the road was under repair, which made it necessary for him to travel slowly.

The wind was freshening constantly, and the Dazzler heeled a lively clip through the comparatively smooth stretch.

If every party that spends a night in the wilderness took the same pains to put out their fire on leaving, many a magnificent stretch of timber would be spared from the ravages of a forest fire, that leaves only blackened tree trunks behind, and ruins thousands of acres of wooded land every year.

The sight of the massive snow face of Mt. St. Elias, rising 18,002 feet above the immense stretches of the Malaspina glacier, called to mind the successful Abruzzi expedition, which reached the top of this mountain a few years ago.

On every battlefield of the 100-mile frontfor the fighting now covered that enormous stretch of territory, in two sections, north of La Bassee and south of Arrasthe German dead lay literally in heaps.

Only the barren, desert stretch between Egypt and Tunis remained.

The desert was sometimes Gobi, sometimes Sahara, but always an infinite stretch of sand that floated up and up in a stifling layer, like the tide.

"Not that we have been wanting in our duty," he writes, "far from itindeed, we have made efforts almost as superhuman as the story itself appears to be, to get through it; but with the fullest stretch of our perseverance we are forced to confess that we have not been able to struggle beyond the first of the four books...."

At that height there was little vegetation, and at a mad gait we sped across a bare stretch where the only obstacles were lumps of rock that were scattered around in great profusion.

" The ascent was easily made, for, as Tom had said, they were favored with an unusually level stretch of ground beyond, over which the plane rolled decently until the pilot switched his lever and they started to soar.

Even though the main lot of numerous "Grimeses" were following the humble occupation of guides amidst the extensive stretches of the Adirondacks, and possibly many of them would be found to be boors, save along the line of woodcraft, Obed had managed to pick up considerable knowledge, somehow or other.

Croisset seemed tireless, and under the early glow of the stars and the red moon he still led on the worn pack until at last it stopped on the summit of a mountainous ridge, with a vast plain stretching into the north as far as the eyes could see through the white gloom.

The country through which he traveled was the border-land between the plains and the great forests that rolled in unbroken stretch to the frozen North.

He was walking south and on the best lighted and most beautiful street in town, but his eyes were forever seeking a break in the long line of fence which marked off the grounds of a seemingly interminable stretch of neighbouring mansions, and when a corner was at last reached, he dashed around it and took a straight course for Huested Street, down which he passed with quickened steps and an air of growing assurance.

he cried, "heavenly!" We looked off from the brow of the mountain over fifteen miles of billowing green, to where, far across a far stretch of pale blue lay a dim purple line that we knew was Staten Island.

We landed at the extreme point, and jumping out on to the mud, I picked my way carefully round the corner and stared up the long desolate stretch of river frontage.

173 adjectives to describe  stretching