In June small flecks of the dead, decaying sod begin to appear, gradually widening and uniting with one another, covered with creeping rags of water during the day, and ice by night, looking as hopeless and unvital as crushed rocks just emerging from the darkness of the glacial period.

With us, moreover, it is mere chance that reveals a "medium," or hypnotic subject here and there: but with savages they are sought out diligently, and all who have any latent aptitude that way are detected and utilized; and thus the field of their experience is considerably widened.

As we proceeded we constantly saw trees topple over into the river, the banks of which are continually widening, and which in many parts has the appearance of a lake after a storm, impregnated with debris.

Slowly, almost imperceptibly, he widened the distance between himself and his accuser.

Even the act of printing merely widens the possible appeal: it does not alter its nature.

And first as an epos of sorrow: though centring in the earthly Demeter, yet its movement does not limit itself by the remembrance of her nine days' search; but, in the torch-light procession of the fifth night, widens indefinitely and mysteriously in the darkness, until it has inclosed all hearts within the circuit of its tumultuous flight.

she breathed; and now the flush of her cheeks had widened, wondrously.

The space was widening steadily, but very, very slowly.

When, owing to the omissions of the High Command, the break in the line was swiftly widened and the whole defensive scheme of the Second Army collapsed, it is true that confusion and panic began to spread through the Second Army like fire through dry grass.

As the hope rose her eyes widened trustfully, and this time the smile that flowed up to them was as limpid as a child's.

His nostrils widened unconsciously as he calculated a leap and a blow at Tump's gun.

He looked at her fixedly, as though unguessed-at horizons of innocence widened inimitably before his horrified eyes.

About 1,500 miles inland it widens out from one to ten miles.

Her outlook upon life was widening insensibly.

Bore out the faulty part, and afterward widen the hole with an eccentric drill, so that it will be of the least diameter at the mouth.

After a progress of about five miles, I found I had very materially widened the distance between myself and Zach, who, encumbered by the baggage, and by the spring snow which each moment accumulated in wet heavy cakes upon his snow-shoes, was now a good mile in my rear.

"And thine eyes' blue mirror widens With an awestroke of belief; Meekly following that blind guidance, On thy finger's rosy sheaf, Blow'st thou softly, fancy wounded, soothing down a painless grief.

When the Doctor said, "Untie his hands," the circle widened perceptibly.

Should its spirit remain fine and clear, should it maintain the glorious promise of its dawn, should its high priests realize the perpetually widening intimations of its universal triumph, and escape the ossification that has overtaken all young and hopeful things and institutions, the real foundation for a future of the species would be laid, and so its ultimate suicide prevented.

They ploughed through what looked to her like an impenetrable thicket; they forded the stream where it widened out placidly, stepping on boulders.

Very resolutely he widened his bold buck-skin legs, and dared Joe to touch the poor frightened creature cowering behind her protector.

This was unequivocal evidence that the game could not last much longer, unless the space between the two vessels should be sensibly widened.

The trams met and parted, silently widening the distance between them which previously they had narrowed.

At the same moment, a tinkling sound drew near, and the room, which had grown dark with the fall of night, began to brighten with the softly widening light of an evening lamp, as a servant approached to place it in the front drawing-room.

In readiness for this hero's arrival at the Front the communication-trenches are being specially widened.