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Lexicographical Neighbors of Stretched Out
Literary usage of Stretched out
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hunger by Knut Hamsun (1920)
"I would almost have stretched out my wrists for the handcuffs. I would not have
offered the slightest resistance; on the contrary, I would have assisted ..."
2. The Englishman's Hebrew and Chaldee Concordance of the Old Testament by George V. Wigram (1866)
".My days (are) like a shadow that declineth; 136:12.and with a stretched out arm:
Isa. 3: Iti. und walk with stretched forth necks ..."
3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1887)
"... stretched out on a couch near the window, in the white gown I had seen her
wearing, lay Margaret. Forbes walked straight up to her. " Oh, God! ..."
4. The Life and Theatrical Times of Charles Kean, F.S.A. by Fanny Kemble, Kate Field, John William Cole (1882)
"... at length found a perch, and folded its wings on a hoary rock-anchored tree
that stretched out an arm of succour to it above the abyss, and there, ..."
5. The Works of Virgil by Virgil (1891)
"... and larger shadows fall from the lofty mountains. goats, once a happy flock,
begone : no more shall I, stretched out in my verdant grot, ..."
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