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Sentence Examples In the heart of Lanarkshire, just nine miles from the centre of Glasgow, lies a vast expanse of open land. However to the West of the estate lies an expanse of waste ground and swampland which very nearly cost the life of a young boy from the estate. He and the receiver kept running along the dark expanse of the warehouse roof, making for the elevated tracks of the commuter rail. It was a smallish expanse of grassland bordered by hedges the horses could easily jump if they were so inclined. If there are deciduous trees in the picture-perfect expanse, their leaves will be raked, gathered, and disposed of at the curb. Carol Decker puts a finger to her lips and looks beyond the adobe ruins to the sprawling expanse of flat brush-covered open ground. Barrel rolls, loops and dives featured as the three aircraft wheeled gracefully over the expanse of Sydney Harbour. To the south the flat expanse of Lake Dokan shone greasily in the low evening light like fish scales. Nico and Jean will take us on a tour of their facilities showing us the expanse of daffodils, tulips, lilies and delphiniums. It is another of those tiny groups of dots that punctuate the vast expanse of the Pacific Ocean. We drop through what seems to be an eternal void, not five astronauts floating in space but five aquanauts in an expanse of emptiness. He saw the cubs and adults roistering on the huge expanse of lawn that belonged to the posh street running parallel to Hillside Drive. They can also locate small heat sources, such as a liferaft in the open sea, or a live body in an expanse of snowy hillside. Kim returned home Aug.18 after a three-week round-trip railway trip across the vast expanse of Siberia to Moscow and St. Petersburg. The name is painted on white articulated lorries parked across a massive expanse of yard. She realised that now, confronted with this vast expanse of lovely, beautiful space. The area is called the taiga, which refers to the great expanse of forest that stretches from the Ural Mountains to the Pacific. The tailgate hinges on both the side and the bottom so you can get into the trunk without sprawling across a filthy expanse of sheet metal. The Rann, a vast expanse of tidal mud flats and salt marshes, take up much of Kachch. Coming back we crossed a vast expanse of low, sandy hummocks covered with sand verbena. Show More Sentences The River Oaks Country Club in Houston sits like a plantation mansion amid a vast expanse of magnolias, dogwood, azaleas, and golf greens. I was rebounding and using an expanse of dates to distract my attention from how awful I really felt. They were looking out onto a seemingly unending expanse of perfectly blue ocean beneath a cloudless azure sky. To take a peep at what lies beneath that large, flat expanse of ice, you must first make your ice hole, or maina. The Egyptian dining room had been painted over, but when stripped it revealed a vast expanse of scagliola. But the main barrier is the land itself, an expanse of sun-whitened, heat-hazed bajada telescoping the waist-high vegetation to nothing. Its bald expanse colonized by a single stubby tree, the narrow courtyard has the bleak and slightly disturbing aura of a de Chirico painting. And there I was, flying above it, marvelling at the expanse of shining blue water, dotted with delicate islands, calm as a mirror. As she gazed out into the expanse she saw nothing of the thick silver fog, or the dark grey water. From a distance, his digging areas look like plowed fields, bordered by a gleaming expanse of tidal flats. The tide was out, further out than I had seen for a very long time, revealing an expanse of mud and mussel beds. It seemed to be an expanse of crispy brown grass, scattered with a few mesquite trees. There is no cloud there, no smog belching from industrial chimneys, just a great barren expanse of sand and jewelled sky. Bounded on the north by the Ritter Range, the San Joaquin River drains a vast expanse of mountains south of Yosemite. Drilled piles were used to extend the load below the expanse of surface soil. Across a vast white expanse a single figure appears as a dot on the horizon. As James looks out the window of the tract housing and sees the expanse of a wheat field for the first time, something inside him opens up. To one side was a rolling expanse of pasture land, clustered with flocks of sheep so thick that hundreds must graze there. But all that greeted his eye was and endless expanse of sand and waves in front of him, and the sheer wall of a rocky cliff behind. Malaysia's hot pursuit a fortnight ago appeared like a mirage in Bahrain's desert expanse. Show More Sentences Suddenly we come across a huge expanse of startlingly blue water mirroring vermilion rocks and towering pinnacles. There is a huge expanse of sweeping railway track that links up to form a triangle enclosing acres of scrub and grass. Josh picked up his pace and jogged across the park and short expanse of field to the metal dugouts. Her visage set against the wide expanse of the stars like the faded misty memory of a dream. Yallac followed suit, lying on her back and gazing up at the endless expanse of stars, listening to the shushing of the water on the cliffs. The tundra and vast expanse of snowy waste is used for decorative backdrops, like the mountains of Afghanistan. They watched the proceedings through a bullet-proof glass screen topped by an expanse of netting. The expanse of green, turquoise and blue water opened up before me, stretching to the horizon. The very expanse of his sentences, their twist and torque, is an American dream of plenitude. It was a vast, bleak, exposed expanse of tarmac with nothing in it but broken glass. The high spot, literally, is the Slieve Bloom mountains, an expanse of moorland with views across five counties. Yet this great expanse of lowland is almost ringed by the hills and mountains, most of which lie near the coast. He looked out at the white capped peaks and marveled at the beauteous expanse of the mountain range. There was a vast expanse of marble slabbed flooring, all green and cream swirls, and lots of polished wood with carved curlicues. Only the edge of the canvas is brightened by colour, while the centre is occupied by a vast expanse of undifferentiated whiteness. She looked around her at the vast expanse of the unbroken plain of unending white tiles and sighed. The land on either side of the road sloped down and away, giving way to rows of trees on both sides, and a healthy expanse of grass. Where else can the unsearchableness of God be seen than in the great expanse of outer and inner space? Arguably the jewel in the area's crown is the rolling expanse of unspoiled countryside. They framed the vast expanse of brine and muddy flats where Hunt set up shop. Show More Sentences Unlike your own tiny island, Canada is a vast expanse covering almost every known climatic type. All you can see when you get out of the car is this vast flat expanse of grass. In the gloom across the vast expanse of sand the distant hills awaited the daylight. The sun came out and poured through the stained glass windows down onto the vast expanse of stone floor. We were dumped by some old Nissen huts at the edge of some sand dunes, looking out over a vast, sandy expanse of beach. These valleys form part of a magnificent expanse of contiguous pristine valleys-a complex of giant trees unparalleled on Vancouver Island. He saw a great expanse of lush green meadow, where wild ponies galloped free and careless in its serenity. Northern Italy is a vast expanse of vineyards, and much of the wine made there is the sparkler known as spumante. The great expanse of unoccupied land available for squatting throughout southeastern Australia implied that the sheep could be left to wander. The road takes on a gentle grade, and I see more oaks and fewer farms until the steel blue expanse of Clear Lake appears. The ability to centrally administer a broad expanse of storage with the same tools and procedures can reduce administrative costs. The sheer expanse of the skies humbles me but also makes me feel real and like I need to open up. There must be something worth looking at in this huge expanse of dry puna that stretched away from us to some distant humps. However packed it gets, this great civic expanse always retains its symbolic force. Two rivers flowed between us and our destination, a miniature hut lost in an expanse of peat bog. It is a site fit for a king, this hillside peering over the roofs of Berkeley toward an expanse of shimmering bay. Above them is a wide expanse of thigh, a pelmet of a skirt and frosted face makeup that looks like pancake for the stage. When I went higher still, I was able to look down on a great expanse of white cloud, looking like giant clumps of spotlessly clean cotton wool. The stars were twinkling incandescently in the vast expanse of inky black sky overhead, a sight that we could rarely witness in the city. The glassy expanse of the curtain wall opens the concourse areas to the sky and the drama of arriving and departing aircraft. Show More Sentences Nonetheless, we eventually reached a tiny logjam, portaged up and over, and shoved off onto another expanse of flat brown water and giant stumps. The coarse texture of the concrete is counterpoised to the silky surface of aluminium kitchen fittings and gleaming expanse of woodblock floor. The expanse of the day unfolds before me and I can't comprehend how I am going to distract my cranky baby for the next 12 hours. Honeycomb Canyon offers powder hounds such a sprawling expanse that the day after a storm, you can traverse untracked snow until the lift closes. We can thank author Elisabeth Beresford for making famous this glorious expanse of open space. And do you want an intimate room, modest in size, or a grand space with a lofty ceiling and broad expanse of floor? Snow covered the grassy expanse behind the house, and the small pond out back had a thin layer of ice forming over its black waters. Eastward lay the Sonoma floodplain, an expanse of diked and drained bay lands, with tidal creeks and sloughs shining in the distance. While in the air, he watched as a tractor pulling a plow cut a dark line of earth across an expanse of ground. In summer, the watercourse provides a green belt that distinguishes the town from the dun expanse that surrounds it. Stables also regularly use the wide expanse of shoreline to exercise their horses. Prior to Shepherd Market being laid out in the 1730s, this area was just an expanse of open fields on the western edge of town. The wide expanse of floor between the two areas was pale, marble patterned tile. If your floor offers a wide expanse of uninterrupted space, a larger pattern may be used. You can get a shot of her from behind, with the wide expanse of Beach Road stretching away from her. Directly above the bar, it was huge, no walls to encumber the wide expanse of the room. From between two ridges I stared out across a green expanse stretching as far as I could see. She leaned on the rail and viewed a large expanse of nature that continued as far as she could see. Our main testing and exhibition hall is adjacent to a grassy expanse and a patio area. Across the other side of South London lies Richmond Park, a huge expanse of green untroubled by public transport. Show More Sentences She looked around at the buildings, and the wide expanse of the park before them. For a while I sat on a bench among the sand-dunes looking out over a wide expanse of sand and out to the sea. The entire section was stripped naked, exposing the ship's innards to the cold expanse of space. Most anywhere on the long expanse of the north shore side of the Cape which uncovers at low tides to expose sand flats can be productive. Jonnie and I rode to the beach, which was this big beautiful vast expanse of flat sand and waveless ocean. Our attention was soon called to the wide expanse of blue sky by the loud screeching of the hawks up above us. This fat-soluble vitamin is essential for the maintenance and healing of epithelial tissues, with skin being the largest expanse of epithelial tissue you've got! I booked tables four and five, which faced the wider expanse of the room. This is especially true given the size and expanse of the global economy. He stood by the windows, looking out over the great expanse of choppy sea, his tall form draped in something nondescript which might have been a military greatcoat. Moss, chocolate, mink, charcoal, biscuit and olive dominated the white expanse of winter for Grachvogel, as jazz drifted from a grand piano on the catwalk. The wind lashed the water into a choppy expanse of whitecaps. On a transparent blue expanse, a swaddled figure lies in a passive curve, suspended in a heavenly hammock of spidery filaments, surrendered to the life of the mind. An instant of heat and he was suddenly standing at the edge of a great expanse of grassland, the grass withered and blackened in places but generally a dry yellow. Working high up a mast on the end of a yardarm isolated in the expanse of the southern ocean, it was an uncanny experience to eyeball one of these creatures. To break up the expanse of a not-so-Victorian double garage door, the couple came up with a design that looks like two structures, one nested inside the other. People in the book often feel like interrogative bodies exploring the outer limits of their own emotions and thoughts as well as the expanse beyond. If you visit Jerusalem today, you will be moved by its beauty, its expanse, its bursting population, its thousands of Torah scholars and its scores of yeshivas. Bangladesh was East Pakistan at the time, geographically separated from West Pakistan by the vast expanse of India. While driving along the winding and narrow Norwegian roads alongside a fjord we came to a massive glacier towering across the clearest expanse of pure turquoise water. Show More Sentences In one of his famous cartoons, he shows soldiers of the French Foreign Legion marching endlessly through a desert expanse with two legionnaires in the foreground. Somewhere in that expanse of California sky, I know Edith Jefferson will be doing the jitterbug. A grid of rhomboid forms, like windows in a high-rise, tilts and careens to the upper right of the 12-foot expanse of Lost Highway, as though rushing away. The view is not of the standard Chicago skyline in which gleaming skyscrapers rise like the Emerald City from the glassy expanse of Lake Michigan. We emerged into the country to find ourselves amid an open expanse of coconut palms, interspersed with the odd clove and nutmeg tree, banana palm and cinnamon bush. This beautiful expanse of water was once the valley of the Parramatta river, drowned by rising sea levels following the big thaw at the end of the last ice age. The entire area of the marsh has to be fenced to protect the remaining part from further encroachment, say nature lovers, who enjoy its vast expanse and birdlife. I had visions of running over to the fresh bread counter, ripping the crust off a large bloomer and burying my face in the soft, warm expanse of white loaf. From Trowunna, I head north, leaving behind the forested hills of the interior to traverse an expanse of rolling countryside strikingly reminiscent of England. They enjoy being in the catbird seat, perched at a high elevation, with a commanding view of a vast expanse of open air, high above the landmass below. The ceiling remains a relatively unbroken expanse of acoustical tile, which was selected for its high and uniform absorptive properties across a broad frequency spectrum. This 137,400-acre expanse supports prairie dogs, coyotes, foxes, black bears, mountain lions, bobcats, elk, mule deer, and over 200 kinds of birds. It's been a very long trek across inner suburbia to reach this remote rail hub surrounded on three sides by an expanse of tracks and overhead cables. The path continues back to the southern end of the tarn where there is again a challenging gradient before you leave the gravel track and meet an expanse of sloping grass. The expanse of the valley was dotted with many white dots, and a black one here and there, dots that hopped around from time to time and baaed continuously. It is but a short hike through a white pine forest from the top of the ski resort chair to the broad expanse of this high bowl, ringed by sharp summits and sawtooth ridges. Here we washed our feet before entering the wide expanse of virgin forest. Even if the display erred on the side of parsimony, the gleaming expanse of wooden flooring and the glittering space above seemed to invite one in to marvel. The party sequence in Notorious begins with a wide shot from high above the top of the stairs, all glittering expanse below. An oddly shaped white and yellow puddle of thinned pigment, its isolation heightened by an expanse of brushy, unmodulated blue, recalls Miro in its comic vulnerability. Show More Sentences A vast expanse of western Siberia is undergoing an unprecedented thaw that could dramatically increase the rate of global warming, climate scientists warned yesterday. The great expanse of the Terris Nebula dominated the western horizon, with its many hues of vermilion, purple and fuchsia against the dark sapphire of the evening sky. The Montrose basin, with its wide expanse of sandflats, offers a perfect environment for the sea trout and, as luck would have it, is too shallow for fish farming. Its interior offers a complex expanse of soaring, curved steel beams. In 2008, after a rift with Laban, he disappeared to the empty expanse of Greenland. Walking along the edge of Thirlmere, it's hard to imagine this vast expanse of water was once two small shallow lakes, a bridge, open fields and a meandering Lakeland beck. This wild and untrammelled expanse, over thousands of miles of uninterrupted trail, makes for a very intense wilderness experience for the mushers. In the formal gardens, the grandest expanse of all running the full length of the house is the Italian garden, laid out as a geometric parterre with herbaceous plants. Haig paused for a moment to take in the expanse of bronzed, rounded flesh. The sky is broodingly grey over the humid downs of the Barkly Tableland as a mob of well-fed white Brahman cows and calves quietly shift across the green expanse. If you slip, you go tumbling over the roof into the expanse below. By half past eleven the vast expanse of Trafalgar Square was already full. In the tall, chapel-like gallery at the entrance, one gazed up, across and through the shimmering expanse of Summer Moon, a symphony of color, light and energy. Nowhere is the problem more visible than in the open expanse of southwestern Dade County, where tract housing gives way to sawgrass and airboat engines. The moon waxed full, looming huge upon the speckled expanse. She had been climbing up the declivitous trail for hours and had lost her footing more than once, so the safety of a relatively flat expanse was welcome indeed. Ten years ago, the area was a vast expanse of industrial wasteland. Spread out below the ridge is a remarkable expanse of woodlands, an acacia and eucalypt plain of shimmering leaf canopy that extends to the coast. This door opens to a great expanse of space where the family room is. But during the downpours last November, the mound only succeeded in accumulating a huge expanse of water which had run off from saturated fields nearby. Show More Sentences The acuteness and expanse of his vision, his documentary power, and his grace and skill as an artist make his work devastatingly, frighteningly immediate. Lakshmi gazed into the suddenly empty expanse of her suitcase, then closed it with a bang, punctuating the end to the conversation. Innumerable flocks and herbs covered that vast expanse of emerald meadow saturated with the moisture of the Atlantic. The great sky uprose from this silent sea without a cloud. The stars hung low in its expanse, burning in a violent mist of lower ether. He strongly believed that species of organisms originated in a succession of Divine creative acts throughout the long expanse of history. Director of photography Bernhard Jasper shoots in a cinemascope to capture the expanse of shimmering blue and solitude. Louisiana's mottled ducks make up well over half of the region's total because of its massive expanse of soft deltaic and chenier plain marshes. Heading west, the coast is an expanse of alluvial deposits stretching to the mouth of Glamorgan's most well known river, the River Taff. In the northwest, the River Congo has a width of 40 km, a vast expanse of water continually replenished by its confluence with the River Ubangi. Celtic art is a difficult term to define, covering a huge expanse of time, geography and cultures. The huge expanse of Rupert's Land has been transferred to Canadian possession. For those brave, foolhardy souls finding their way around a vast expanse of unfamiliar pistes, the shortage of landmarks can be a problem. Belfast Lough is a long, wide and deep expanse of water, virtually free of strong tides. This results when cold polar maritime air that has travelled over a large expanse of warmer ocean is forced to rise over high country. Heracles forced Helios to lend him his golden bowl, in order to cross the wide expanse of the Ocean on his trip to the Hesperides. Kim Novak runs away from James Stewart, across an expanse of field. And as they often are on a super-cold day, snow conditions Okemo's wide expanse of terrain were excellent on this subarctic day. It's the home of the Pennine Sailing Club, who use the expanse of Winscar Reservoir high in the Pennines as their base. It lies on a broad expanse of clay and limestone, very different from the friable schistose soils at Chteau Sainte Marguerite. He also developed similar techniques when it came to measuring the heights of mountains, depths of the valleys, and expanse of the horizon. Show More Sentences The vast flat expanse of the Carse of Stirling follows including Flanders Moss. Europeans generally assumed that the aquatic expanse between Europe and Asia was uninterrupted. Southsea Common is a large expanse of mown grassland parallel to the shore from Clarence Pier to Southsea Castle. Some abandoned chalk mines remain tourist destinations due to their massive expanse and natural beauty. However, an expanse of water separates the island of Gotland from the Swedes. As a desert, Sahara is now a hostile expanse that separates the Mediterranean economy from the economy of the Niger basin. The latter was a vast expanse, comprising multiple buildings with shops on four levels. From here the ridge descends and gradually broadens into the rough expanse of Thelkeld Common. A batholith is formed when many plutons converge to form a huge expanse of granitic rock. The Cheshire Plain is a relatively flat expanse of lowland almost entirely within the county of Cheshire in North West England. This wide expanse of peat bog continues to be dangerous to walkers, especially after heavy rain. The western side of the region is the Kgalagadi desert, an expanse of undulating sandbelts and limestone outcrops, with a cover of grass and thorn scrub. From the centre of each side of this tree-bound square ran avenues east, west, and south into the wide expanse of corn-land and coomb to the distance of a mile or so. I looked dizzily, and beheld a wide expanse of ocean, whose waters wore so inky a hue as to bring at once to my mind the Nubian geographer's account of the Mare Tenebrarum. At the height of the last ice age, around 20,000 BC, Britain was connected to mainland Europe by a large expanse of land known as Doggerland in the southern North Sea basin. There is an expanse of alluvial plains along it in the Punjab and Sindh. The cathedral is covered by a huge expanse of lead and whilst the majority of the wooden framework remains sound, much of the lead itself needs replacing. The Department of Prehistory and Europe was established in 1969 and is responsible for collections that cover a vast expanse of time and geography. It also boasts the southernmost expanse of Arctic tundra in the world. Farther north, the Atlantic opens into the Arctic Ocean, which is connected to the Pacific by the Bering Strait, forming a continuous expanse of water. Show More Sentences Aerial view showing an expanse of drift ice in southeastern Greenland, comprising loosely packed floes of various sizes, with a lead developing in the centre. Aerial view showing an expanse of drift ice consisting mostly of water. Creating the perfect mixture of sand and water for our man-made Cinderellaesque castle, I looked up at the expanse of water before me and had one of those epiphany moments. You swing out into the Canale della Giudecca, a wide expanse lined with palaces that are now apartments, two-bedroom walk-ups with ageless cats and Renaissance views. Because testosterone increases body hair growth and infertility in women, greater pubic hair expanse could function as a visual heuristic of female infertility for men. On the other hand, Jenney's space is sometimes as empty as a Barnett Newman field painting, with the object a kind of realist zip trivialized by the expanse of space. Attempting to argue that gawping at an exposed breast or an expanse of thigh will make the readers of Loaded more interested in culture sounds like a load of ballerinas to me. The crashes are usually because the land rises imperceptibly into a largely featureless expanse, an area prone to sudden cloud, mist, updraughts and crosswinds. After all, the real number line is an infinitely long, continuous expanse, while the counting numbers are just isolated milestones along this line. Examples from Classical Literature The road crossed the yellow Uncompahgre, and stretched like a chalk-mark athwart the sage green expanse of gravelly valley. There was one expanse that was sheer rock-climbing, flattened like bugs against a wall, scrabbling for hand-holds and footholds. Our road lay across the parang river, which flowed in several channels among the wide expanse of gravel which here formed its bed. Scaffolding had been erected against its walls and their cerulean expanse was being rapidly hidden beneath a coating of brick red. The emancipated ghosts floated in all directions, emitting their shrill and stridulous cries in the gleaming expanse. Gazing, with a timid glance, On the brooklet's swift advance, On the river's broad expanse! The sun had just set, and the whole expanse of water was aflame with the afterglow. Farrell gave it up and limped outside, to stand scowling unhappily at the dreary expanse of swampland. Then he hitched up his sweatshirt over the hairy pale expanse of his own belly and tipped to one side. In the case of lepidopterous insects, and other insects having considerable expanse of wing, setting-boards are required. Then there is an inspiration in the wide expanse, a snap and tang and joy in the air. So thinks, at any rate, a horseman, toilsomely making his way over its inhospitable expanse. They had overshot the last house and were facing an unhedged expanse of roots and crisp furrows before he overtook her. I had to chance that I wouldn't be seen while crossing this billowy expanse. Lopez raised his morion, and, leaning on his pike, glanced over the expanse. The largest specimens of morpho Cisseis measure seven inches and a half in expanse. The ceiling was an expanse of ornament, with an electric chandelier for centre. In front of them was a wide expanse of water bordered by a band of vegetation. This river carries the surplus water of Winnipegosis into the large expanse of Lake Manitoba. The great steel derricks and their crisscrossing cables cast curiously foreshortened shadows on the gleaming white expanse. Show More Sentences I could dart off along that curving expanse of his leg and leap to the ground. The grass was like an expanse of gold, and below her the valley swam in golden mist. To the cast and north of our hill was an expanse of rolling, desolate wilderness. The frozen expanse stretched steel-white, glary and glistening, a solid sheet of ice. The gulls seemed uneasy, in spite of the desolateness of the broad expanse of heaving swell. The shawm rang out yearningly beneath the pale expanse of an unsympathetic heaven. The Earth appears in extreme isolation in its full frailness and vulnerability in a vast galactic expanse. Not a light now remained, there was but a boundless expanse of gloom. An unwearied pall of cloud muffled the whole expanse of sky from zenith to horizon. Nothing stirred over the vast expanse save a pair of ravens, which croaked loudly from a tor behind us. As Dian ceased speaking she let her eyes range across the limitless expanse of billowing waters. The Tuckerton Peninsula forms a large expanse of highly inundated Spartina alterniflora salt marsh habitat along the southern New Jersey coast. But take, for the moment, the mere obvious matter of expanse of territory. An expanse of smooth turf lay between the window and the sidewalk. Beyond the volcano Jim could see what looked like an expanse of ocean. And as he swung it, Shann held it out over the expanse of the table. The whole country was now, in fact, a vast expanse of marshes and Fens. A fine plant covering a large expanse of wall is at greenway. Our wagonette had topped a rise and in front of us rose the huge expanse of the moor, mottled with gnarled and craggy cairns and tors. He is showily dressed, with a vast expanse of cravat and waistcoat. Show More Sentences I looked out over the beautiful expanse, bathed in soft yellow moonlight till it was almost as light as day. Outside a sky of inky blackness overhung the white expanse of snow. He almost stifled beneath the interminable expanse of foliage. In the distance stretched the unmeasured expanse of the ice-whitened sea. Two minutes before the moon had shone upon an untrodden expanse of snow. But at this point, an expanse of outcropping rock baffled them completely. In the midst of the bleak expanse of pathless waste I was the sign-post. The city wall appeared to be about thirty feet in height, its plastered expanse unbroken except by occasional embrasures. We looked at the empty expanse, and then I felt the suggestion of my friend's eyes. Merely that the expanse of stars above us is not more illimitable than my contempt for Miss Lindsay, nor brighter than my hopes of Gertrude. Only a dreary waste of white, roofed by a vast expanse of black. Mary felt as if the drive would never come to an end and that the wide, bleak moor was a wide expanse of black ocean through which she was passing on a strip of dry land. Before us stretched the vast expanse of Lake Ontario, agleam in the moonlight, the swish of the waves sounding like giant inhalations and exhalations. In about three hours the Victoria was crossing with extreme rapidity an expanse of stony country, with ranges of lofty, naked mountains of granitic formation at the base. The grass greening all the expanse in its front seemed to grow, not rankly, but with a natural and joyous exuberance, and the weeds blossomed quite like plants. In this central expanse the sea presented that smooth satin-like surface, called a sleek, produced by the subtle moisture thrown off by the whale in his more quiet moods. It seemed as though no caravan had ever braved this desert expanse, or it would have left visible traces of its encampments, or the whitened bones of men and animals. This carpet was a small square drugget in the centre of the room, surrounded by a broad expanse of beautiful, old-fashioned wood-flooring in square blocks, highly polished. Find more words! 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