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

Most lovely was the verdure of the hills— A rich luxuriant green, o'er which the sky Of blue, translucent, clear without a cloud, Outspread its arching amplitude serene.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 360, October 1845 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

Far as her straining eyes could see, The seething, swoolen Tombigbee Outspread his turbulent yellow tide; His angry currents swirled and surged O’er leagues of fertile lands submerged, And ruined hamlets, far and wide.

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

Now, stooping, I upgather, one by one, The crimson petals, all Outspread about my fall.

From Sword Blades and Poppy Seed by Lowell, Amy