The ranks of shattered ice along the shore are claimed again as the flood widens and licks them in.

As indirect experiences grow, or in other words as he hears or reads more stories, his ideal widens, and his knowledge of the problems of life is enlarged.

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

Here the lake expands to a width of about two miles for a distance of some three miles, when it suddenly narrows to about half a mile for a distance of a little over a mile, after which it widens again to about a mile and a half or more.

The meagre lists of the kings of Wessex and the bishops of Winchester, which had been preserved from older times, were roughly expanded into a national history by insertions from Bede; but it is when it reaches the reign of Alfred that the chronicle suddenly widens into the vigorous narrative, full of life and originality, that marks the gift of a new power to the English tongue.

As the circle of acquaintance widens, other loved objects usher in the miocene phases of the development.

The stream fast widens, and upon the shore Rise busy hamlets 'mid the falling woods, Filling their shorn and broken solitudes, With labour's clamour ever more and more: No more, no more in dreams of love all day, Rich set in music from the forests hoar, Now gaily speeds my untoss'd bark away,

I have found the average of scientific men, not less, but more, godly and righteous men than the average of their neighbours; and I can trust that this will be more and more the case as science deepens and widens.

While it stimulates manufactures, it also creates monopolies and widens the distinctions between the rich and the poor.

Below Point Hausbrough, named in honor of Peter M. Hausbrough, who was drowned during the first exploring trip, the cañon widens rapidly.

The road from Domo d'Ossola thro' the villages of Ornavasso and Vagogna is thro' a fertile and picturesque valley, or rather gorge, of the mountain, narrow at first, but which gradually widens as you approach to the lake.

In the part of it that lies parallel to the Cathedral, it is about as broad as the Rue St Honoré at Paris; but two hundred yards beyond it, it suddenly widens and is then broader than Portland Place the whole way to the Porta Orientale.

Nor are large towns like Bombay the only places where the Hindu peasant widens his horizon and acquires new tastes.

The most important portion of the alluvion of the Nile is the northern portion, where the valley widens and opens toward the sea, forming a triangular plain of about one hundred miles in length on each of the sides, over which the waters of the river flow in a great number of separate creeks and channels.

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.

Just above this point we pass the swiftest rapids on the route, where the river widens, and each side of the bank is beautiful in its wooded picturesqueness, while the waters rush, in foaming, surging, tumbling confusion, over the rugged rocks, or dart between them like a merry band of water-sprites chasing each other in gleesome frolic.

You look down upon the Danube, catching a fine sweep of the river, as it widens in its course toward Vienna.

After passing Botley, an ancient market town, the river widens into an estuary haven altogether out of proportion to the stream behind it, and at Bursledon, where it is crossed by the Portsmouth highway, it becomes really beautiful: the curving banks are in places embowered in trees that descend to the water's edge.

A fox make three rounds from where he is jumped and then widens out.

What he believed, it would be difficult to ascertain from his writings; yet he is an effective teacher of morals, he stimulates into activity all that is best in man, life widens and deepens under the touch of his genius.

Abruptly, upon the inner side of the narrow passage the canyon widens to many times the width of the outer vestibule; and the road, crossing the creek, curves to the left; so that, looking back as they went, the two men saw the mighty doors closing again, behind themas they had opened to let them in.

Perhaps two miles above the entrance the canyon widens to its greatest width; and in this portion of the little valley,which extends some five miles to where the walls again draw close,located on the benches above the boulder-strewn wash of Clear Creek, are the homes of several mountain ranchers, and the Government Forest Ranger Station.

Giant widens his world; the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.

Knowledge used by selfishness widens the gulf that divides man from man and race from race, and we may well shrink from the idea of new powers in Nature being yoked to the car of Greed.

For the remaining 3 miles the harbor gradually widens, until at its northern extremity it is about 2 miles wide.