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Definition of Stretchiest
1. stretchy [adj] - See also: stretchy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stretchiest
Literary usage of Stretchiest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"... [jo] while thou stretchiest forth thy hand to heal; and that signs and wonders
may be done through the name of thy holy Servant" Jesus ..."
2. The Psalms of David in Metre by Free Church of Scotland, Free Church of Scotland General Assembly, General Assembly (1884)
"2 With light, as with a robe, thyself thou coverest about; And, like unto a
curtain, thou the heavens stretchiest out. "» 3 Who of his chambers doth the ..."
3. The Revised Version of the New Testament (1881)
"29 And now, Lord, look upon their threatenings : and grant unto thy 6 servants
to speak thy word with all .so boldness, while thou stretchiest forth thy ..."
4. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1884)
"Let it not, indeed, be, that when thou receivest thou stretchiest out thine hand,
but when thou shouldest give thou drawest thy hand to thee. ..."
5. Pleasant Dialogues and Dramma's by Thomas Heywood, Lucian, Desiderius Erasmus, Ovid, Joannes Ravisius Textor, Jacob Cats (1903)
"... for drinke when there's no cause of thirst ; And as in sport (but sipping)
thy arme stretchiest, ..."
6. Indian Myths Or, Legends, Traditions, and Symbols of the Aborigines of by Ellen Russell Emerson (1884)
"... as with a garment; who stretchiest out the heavens like a curtain; Who layeth
the beams of his chambers in the waters; who 1 Antiquities of the Jews, ..."
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