The engineers set about improving all local resources over a wide stretch of country which used to be regarded as waterless in summer.

If it could not be the way Apollonie planned, she might at least stay for a long stretch of time.

Germany will stretch beyond that limit, and in it the German will have work to do.

The working-men in the two countries stretch out their hands to each other over the frontiers as pioneers of true culture and morality.

She had many admirers, two in particular that made me run my best down the stretch.

I saw him slide off it and stretch out....

And should he make the Child An instrument of falsehood, should he teach her To stretch her arms, and dim the gladsome light Of infant playfulness with piteous looks Of misery that was not LACY Troth, 'tis hard

One day in silence did we drift at noon By a bare rock, narrow, and white, and bare; No food was there, no drink, no grass, no shade, No tree, nor jutting eminence, nor form Inanimate large as the body of man, Nor any living thing whose lot of life Might stretch beyond the measure of one moon.

"We can just walk about and stretch our legs, look in at a few store windows and make a few trifling purchases that won't exhaust our small store of pocket money.

Barry Cornwall has his tritons and his nereids gamboling before him in nocturnal visions, and proclaiming sons born to Neptunewhen my stretch of imaginative activity can hardly, in the night season, raise up the ghost of a fish-wife.

DREAM-CHILDREN A REVERIE Children love to listen to stories about their elders, when they were children; to stretch their imagination to the conception of a traditionary great-uncle, or grandame, whom they never saw.

It is difficult to conceive how a scrawl of mine should ever stretch across it.

Their hungry swarms the peaceful vale shall fright, Still fierce to threaten, still afraid to fight; The teeming year's whole product shall devour, Insatiate pluck the fruit, and crop the flow'r; Shall glutton on the industrious peasants' spoil, Rob without fear, and fatten without toil; Then o'er the world shall discord stretch her wings; Kings change their laws, and kingdoms change their kings.

" "Then o'er the world shall discord stretch her wings, Kings change their laws, and kingdoms change their kings.

Besides, they would stretch my neck for sending a fellow out of the world without his previously having had an interview with his confessor.

The hawks caught a beautiful bird called hobara, or habary, about the size of the small hen-turkey, lily white on the back, light brown brindle, tuft of long white feathers on its head, and ruffle of long black feathers, which they stretch out at pleasure, with a large grey eye.

When the long stop was announced, Andy was glad to get a chance to stretch his limbs.

Then he strolled off into a stretch of timber to enjoy a brief walk.

In two seconds he had severed a forty-foot stretch of clothes line running from a hook on the house to a post.

As he reached the edge of a boggy stretch, Andy saw, directly beyond, the top of a house poking up among a grove of fir trees.

" AFFAIRS OF STATE CHAPTER I The Wiles of Womankind Archibald Rushford, tall, lean, the embodiment of energy, stood at the window, hands in pockets, and stared disgustedly out at the dreary vista of sand-dunes and bathing-machines, closed in the distance by a stretch of gray sea mounting toward a horizon scarcely discernible through the drifting mist which hung above the water.

Indeed, the paper once finished, the remainder of the day would stretch before him an empty wildernessa waste as monotonous and bare as the beach he had grown so weary of gazing at.

The ligaments cannot stretch, and so have to endure the wrench upon the joint.

As a result of a sprain, the ligaments may be wrenched or torn, and even a piece of an adjacent bone may be torn off; the soft parts about the injured joint are bruised, and the neighboring muscles put to a severe stretch.

That prince was certainly one of the proudest and most ambitious men of his time, nor could he patiently bear the name of a subject even to his father; nothing but absolute power, and the title of king could satisfy him; upon the death of his elder brother, Edward the black prince, he fixed an eye upon the English crown, and seemed to stretch out an impatient hand to reach it.