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.

"If a man were too short," he said, "there was no remedy like a little stretching."

Something like a painful thrill appeared to dart through the frame of the listener, and arrest the careless stretching of his arms.

In most cases by a constant stretching of the rules of evidence his whole life may be involved.

The pale ecstatic stretching out emaciated arms, presents no beauty of attitude or outline.

I have attempted to account for it by an elaborate stretching of the theory of chemical affinities.

We left our chest of clothes and other things in a warehouse and shouldered our packs and guns for a march across what seemed an endless prairie stretching to the west.

An immense stretching and flattening of arcs up to the straight blue wall on the horizon.

It was a rubber phrase, capable of infinite stretching.

Before this offensive began I had slept in a hut above ground, but the Major had now insisted that I should sleep in a small dug-out half-way up a steep bank, at the bottom of which our Mess Hut stood in an orchard stretching down to the river bank.

This morning there had been scant time for such refreshment, or for that preliminary stretching which is so grateful to bodies wearied by late hours and too-rapid living.

One prodigious stretching of the long arms, one great yawn, and he was as wide awake as he would be at noon.

The town is situate upon a small promontory stretching into the sea, and along the mouth of the river

Within the elastic limit the relative stretching and contraction of the fibres is directly proportional to their distances from a plane intermediate between themthe ~neutral plane~. (N{1} P in Fig.

Following now a detour through city streets, instead of the highway that will soon traverse the cliffs, to the Cliff House, a resort foremost in the written and pictured annals of San Francisco, you glimpse three miles of sandy beach stretching southward to the jutting headlands of Point Pedro and you drop down to the boulevard that flanks the Esplanade, which the city is building as part of its playground plan.

Turn a lever and you had a dozen more knots; not with a leap or a jerk, but like a cat's sleek stretching of muscles.

A swamp stretching endlessly on either hand, and back from the icy flood as far as eye could see, broken only by sloughs and an occasional ice-rimmed tarn.

These dogs sit out the Gaelic services and sermon with commendable patience, till towards the end of the last psalm, when there is a universal stretching and yawning, and all are prepared to scamper out, barking in a most excited manner whenever the blessing is commenced.

Even with the utmost stretching of the divine mercy, the greater part of them must perish; and for the lost souls of these he grieved much and prayed each day.

For it came to him with the clear simplicity of a child's vision that the process of attuning his being to the right note must inevitably involve suffering and pain: the awful stretching of the string, the strain of the lifting vibrations, the stress at first of sounding in harmony with all the others, and the apparent loss of one's own little note in order to do so...

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.

In the front, they saw the bowsprit stretching over the waves, with its three jibs, which were hauled tightly, spread out like three great unequal wings.