Example Sentences

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The people’s blood runs through him, Dilates from head to foot, Creates him absolute, And from this great beginning Evokes a greater end To justify and renew him— Emperor Evermore.

From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume IV by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Above my head Dilates immeasurable a wild of leaves, Seeming received into the blue expanse That vaults this summer noon.

From Tennyson and His Friends by Various

And borne aloft by the sustaining blast,   This little golden thread Dilates into a column high and vast,   A form of fear and dread.

From The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth