Which preposition to use with wide
He held that the land of America was very wide in those parts, as wide as south of the isthmus where no man had yet crossed it.
for he was of a noble stature, being four hands wider than his fellows.
At the very commencement of the summer term it was plain to everybody that something was wrong with the dux; he seemed to take no interest in the doings of his companions in the playground, and only once roused himself sufficiently to bang Cross with a leg-guard for bowling awful wides at cricket.
The ball went wide of the mark, and the game dashed, with more desperate energy, and whistling and snorting like a locomotive, into the brush that lined the banks.
" The boy's sad eyes grew wide with wonder.
He held that the land of America was very wide in those parts, as wide as south of the isthmus where no man had yet crossed it.
"Bove Lake (called Tagish Lake by Dr. Dawson) is about a mile wide for the first two miles of its length, when it is joined by what the miners have called the Windy Arm.
When it was finally finished it was twenty-five feet wide by thirty feet long.
Not until broad day, when the pack had scattered far and wide over the plain, did he go boldly to the scene of the kill.
One had walked with his eyes intellectually closed; the other had opened his eyes wide to all the charms of nature.
In writing, leave a wide on the left side of the page.
The folk here live snug in the Tidewater, which is maybe a hundred miles wide from the sea, but of the West they ken nothing.
It is merely a stone-paved passage about four feet wide through the ground floor of a tenement.
Maulevrier was not an intellectual companion, and the distance was wide between the two men; but his lordship's gaiety, good-nature, and acuteness made amends for all shortcomings in culture.
But the schooner, after standing for a moment, all flapping, answered another flaw, and went wide about on the opposite tack.
This promontory is just a thousand yards wide where the landward walls run across it, and not much wider across the world-famous Heights and Plains of Abraham, which then covered the first two miles beyond.
Every tree had a water system of its own spreading far and wide like miniature Amazons and Mississippis.
"The Big Salmon I found to be about one hundred yards wide near the mouth, the depth not more than four or five feet, and the current, so far as could be seen, sluggish.
whose billows wide around [108] Stand motionless, to awful silence bound: 410 Pines, on the coast, through mist their tops uprear, That like to leaning masts of stranded ships appear.
In this room, wider towards the door, many beer pumps stood on a counter, near hams having the color of old violins, red lobsters, marinated mackerel, with onions and carrots, slices of lemon, bunches of laurel and thym, juniper berries and long peppers swimming in thick sauce.
In Indiana, where, save a strip sixty miles wide along the Ohio River, and a few patches scattered over the territory, every foot of soil was owned by the Indians, this crowding led to serious consequences.
The river was three hundred feet wide opposite our house, and about two feet deep, so teams could be driven across at ordinary stages, but foot passengers depended on our boat, a large "dugout."
I see it wide beneath the arch of heaven, When the stars peep upon their evening hour, And the moon rises on the eastern wave, Housed in a cloud of gold!
After crossing the bar, no other obstacle lay in our way, and, floating gradually into a beautiful river, we soon lost sight of the sea, and were sailing up a spacious sheet of water, which became considerably wider after entering it; while majestic hills rose on each side, covered with verdure to their very summits.
We had now reached the highest ridge of the hilly country along the northern base of Taurus, and saw, far and wide before us, the great central plain of Karamania.