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Definition of Outstretches
1. outstretch [v] - See also: outstretch
Lexicographical Neighbors of Outstretches
Literary usage of Outstretches
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Contemporary Review (1874)
"... Wakeful Zeus his hand outstretches ; And its folk is waxen brave. * " Out—through
the fresh and flourished lusty vale." From the beautiful poem of ..."
2. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"... whole of his alms, The heart outstretches its eager palms; For a god goes with
it and makes it store To the soul that was starving in darkness before. ..."
3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1867)
"... thread of the all-sustaining Beauty Which runs through all and doth all unite, —
The hand cannot clasp the whole of his alms, The heart outstretches its ..."
4. The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions by Thomas Humphry Ward (1918)
"The white railing races with all the white faces, The chestnut outpaces, outstretches
the brown. On still past the gateway she strains in the straightway, ..."
5. The World's Best Poetry by Bliss Carman (1904)
"... whole of his alms, The heart outstretches its eager palms; For a god goes with
it ¡md makes it store To the soul that was starving in darkness before. ..."
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