On the south side stretched a white, unbroken expanse of sand a hundred feet or more wide and ending against the low slope of the meadow land.

Beneath lay the broad expanse of the Adriatic, endless to the eye, tranquil as the vault it reflected, and luminous with its borrowed light.

Coffee plantations on the hills overlooking the long expanse of Nyassa, the splendid freshwater sea which Livingstone revealed in its setting of mountains, are selling their superior product in London at a high price.

From Oran and Mostaganem three columns were sent forth against the tribes occupying the large expanse of territory lying between the Atlas Mountains and the Mediterranean, and the tribes extending toward the Sahara.

Looking eastwards he beheld just beyond the plain a vast expanse of blue water extending leagues and leagues away until it faded into the blue sky.

Several islets were apparently breaking its watery expanse, but these also were only heaps of sand raised from the surrounding flat.

Oh, how we watched, hour after hour, and how often each day John Baptiste climbed to the topmost bough of a tall pine tree and, with straining eyes, scanned the desolate expanse for one moving speck in the distance, for one ruffled track on the snow which should ease our awful suspense.

His breath kindled the stars; his voice called into existence worlds innumerable, and filled the expanse with animated being.

Halls, towers, churches, public and private buildings, were burning to the number of more than ten thousand, while clouds of smoke covered the vast expanse of more than fifty miles.

Indeed, he not only smiled, he grinned, showing a gaping expanse in the front of his mouth from which the middle tooth had gone, like a missing gate in a neat white fence.

He received Vathek's and Nouronihar's homage, and invited them to enjoy whatever the palace affordedthe treasures of the pre-Adamite sultans and their bickering sabres and those talismans which compel the Dives to open the subterranean expanses of the mountain of Kaf.

"Seek no guide," she replied; "but raise you your mast, and hoist your white sails, and sit in your ship in peace: the north wind shall waft you through the seas, till you shall cross the expanse of the ocean, and come to where grow the poplar groves, and willows pale, of Proserpine: where Pyriphlegethon and Cocytus and Acheron mingle their waves.

I looked again into the eastern heaven: it was enlightened on the right side, and the light entered the southern expanse.

Night's tinsel beams on smooth Lock-lomond dance, Impatient ÆGA views the bright expanse; 365 In vain her eyes the parting floods explore, Wave after wave rolls freightless to the shore.

The vessel pitched prodigiously too; but neither foam-bubbles nor spray ruffled the glassy expanse.

Three large windows through which is seen a vast expanse of a semi-substantial material of the hue of a smoked primrose; against it is dimly visible an irregular and picturesque outline, probably of a range of mountains, some rocky and pyramidal, others horizontally banked.

I love the ocean's broad expanse, when dress'd In limpid clearness, or when tempests blow.

It was for each of his children that he conquered a fresh expanse of land.

" By this time Barney and Dick had ridden up, and began to admire the expanse of water spreading from the land before them to a green wilderness in the distance.

The great ocean spreads out, a boundless expanse.

For several hundred miles of its lower course, it forms a broad and magnificent expanse, resembling an inland sea.

By way of dowry she brought an expanse of meadow-land in the direction of Lillebonne, which enlarged the estate by some seventy acres.

And skimming now the plain; Then, catching with a sudden glance The bright and silver-clear expanse Of some broad river's stream.

In his first journey, in which he braved the perils of the South African thirst lands, he reached the broad and placid expanse of Lake Ngami, covering an area of three hundred square miles.

There was nothing to be seen except the veiled stars above, and upon either hand a vast dark expanse, which might be a lake, the sea, or a desert, for anything I could discern.