outspread

Example Sentences

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Outspread below, the whole horizon round Is one volcanic pyre.

From The Wonder-Working Magician by MacCarthy, Denis Florence

The seamen stared at him, Each with a hand upon the red-lined chart Outspread before them.

From Collected Poems Volume One by Noyes, Alfred

Forester His senses play him false; and see, his arms Outspread, as if to save himself from falling!—

From The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 1 by Knight, William

Soft fell the rains, the suns shone bright, The long days melted into night, And beautiful, on either hand, Outspread the shining summer land, And all his neighbor’s fields were white.

From The Poets and Poetry of Cecil County, Maryland by Various

Outspread over the noisome ground lay the ruins of a house, rooted up and overthrown to its foundations.

From Basil by Collins, Wilkie