It was enough to know that so bright a thing was in the world, for at one stroke my drab horizon seemed to have broadened into the infinite heavens.

The brightening and broadening of the halo at this point I perceived to be due, not to the Sun's effect upon the atmosphere that produced it, but chiefly to the twilight now brightening on that limb of the Earth's disc; or rather to the fact that a small portion of that part of the Earth's surface, where, if the Sun were not visible, he was but a very little below the horizon, had been turned towards me.

The river here had been broadened to a width of some ninety feet, and an island had been made.

Yet presently he saw a gleam before him that broadened with each step, and, of a sudden, was out beneath the skya narrow strip wherein stars twinkled, and so beheld again friar Martin's white frock flitting on, ghost-like, before.

Just as the light broadened in the east above the crest of mountains rising in rear of the Federal lines.

When he rejoined her, Mary was sitting in the armchair by the fire; she heard his account of the state of affairs up-to-date with a thoughtful smile, smoking a cigarette; her smile broadened over the tale of the water-butt.

The name had broadened from its original meaning, and now merely denoted all non-senatorial rich men.

His gaze is ever fixed upon the path along which Creation has moved, and, as he travels back, recovering step by step the road that has been lost to man in apparently impenetrable darkness and mystery, the light brightens and broadens before him, and seems to tempt him on into the dim regions where the great mystery of Creation lies hidden.

For a moment they halted, where the path broadened on a market-place, part shade, part luminous with golden dust.

Intellectual drill, broadening of mental horizon, professional training, all this we expect from school, college, and university and in every phase of this there is room for a thousand enthusiasms.

It is religious-spirited without superstition consciously Christian in the vein of a nearly Unitarian Christianity, fervent but broadened, broadened as a halfpenny is broadened by being run over by an express train, substantially the same, that is to say, but with a marked loss of outline and detail.

On the distant horizon a column of smoke, broadening at the top, lifted itself into the sky; he knew it was from the funnel of a steam-plough, whose furnace had just been replenished with coal.

If you had to live in that poky little house in Marlborough, I guess you would not find anything very broadening about them!

Scorning thy faith and purpose to defend The ever-mutable multitude at last Will hail the power they did not comprehend, Thy fame will broaden through the centuries; As, storm and billowy tumult overpast, The moon rules calmly o'er the conquered seas.

"Is he a man to whom one could offer money?" The Bonnie Lassie's smile broadened without change in its subtle quality.