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Definition of Outstretching
1. outstretch [v] - See also: outstretch
Lexicographical Neighbors of Outstretching
Literary usage of Outstretching
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Homiletical commentary on the Book of Exodus by Joseph Samuel Exell (1879)
"And so the most beautiful things of country, of home, of person, may by the
outstretching of the Divine rod be rendered unlovely and hateful. ..."
2. History of the Civil War in America by Louis-Philippe-Albert d'Orléans Paris (1888)
"... position it advanced as far as the edge of the ravine, thus outstretching bv
a few hundred yards Dwight's line on its right and Benedict's on its left. ..."
3. A Complete Word and Phrase Concordance to the Poems and Songs of Robert by J. B. Reid (1889)
"R. IV. Out-Spreading, yon moors, Out-spreading far and wide, outstretching.
Man was made to Mourn. 3. Th' outstretching lake ..."
4. Werner's Readings and Recitations (1903)
"At "the Christ outstretching" there will be a slight raising of the shoulders,
an almost imperceptible moving of the hand to the right on " outstretching," ..."
5. European and Japanese Gardens: Papers Read Before the American Institute of by Alfred Dwight Foster Hamlin, Richard Clipston Sturgis, John Galen Howard, Kinkichirō Honda (1902)
"7 goes by the name of the " outstretching Pine" (Nagashi-matsu), suggesting
branches overhanging a stream or a lake. This is generally a single evergreen ..."
6. The Logic of Reason, Universal and Eternal by Laurens Perseus Hickok (1875)
"Space is no outstretching, but all outstretching is within it, and it must first
be in order that any extending can be ; and so Time is no ..."
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