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Definition of Expanses
1. expanse [n] - See also: expanse
Lexicographical Neighbors of Expanses
Literary usage of Expanses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1895)
"To the lake-like expanses the term ' bay' is usually applied, and by it is meant
a perfectly flat, clayey area with a surface some two to four feet below ..."
2. In Darkest Africa, Or, The Quest, Rescue, and Retreat of Emin, Governor of by Sir Henry Morton Stanley (1890)
"... eighteen years ago—The grass and water on the wide expanses of flats—The last
view and southern face of Ruwenzori—The town of Katwe'— The Albert Edward ..."
3. Lectures, Illustrated and Embellished with Views of the World's Famous by John Lawson Stoddard (1899)
"... va- negated marble, and its walls are covered with beautiful expanses of
Siberian jasper, porphyry, ..."
4. John L. Stoddard's Lectures by John Lawson Stoddard (1898)
"... and its expanses of Siberian and alabaster, all ex- a variety of forms, these
splendid THE CHURCH OF THE SAVIOUR. ..."
5. Palmer's Index to "The Times" NewspaperTimes (London, England) (1877)
"... 5 f Election expanses. 11 ; 9/ Gains and Losses to Each Party, 14 m If New
Committees. 20 a 5 t Banbury 80 a 6 а—Ч т VI Ь Bridgwater, l (* о 10 e—19 о ..."
6. Spanish Ironwork by Arthur Byne, Mildred Stapley Byne (1915)
"By the tendency to work in flat expanses of metal and to duplicate stone mouldings,
it lost the charm of iron- FIG. 121. WINDOW REJA. ..."
7. Notes to Phillipps' Treatise on the Law of Evidence by Esek Cowen, Nicholas Hill, Samuel March Phillipps (1839)
"... a recompense out of the county treasury, for his labor and expanses in the
prosecution. And where a party, from whom goods were stolen, ..."
8. The Complete Works by John Ruskin (1894)
"The second gives us the surface, tant expanses of water. Calm, interrupted t>y
ripple. crossed by BUU- with just so much motion upon it as to 817. ..."
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