Beyond the sand hills stretched the shining expanse of the ocean, of the faint, bleached blue of hot August seas, and reaching out into a horizon laced with long trails of pinkish cloud.
The small, pine-fringed headlands ran out into the water, cutting its lustrous blue expanse like purple wedges.
A restless night wind was moaning through the pines that fringed the bank behind him; the moon shone down radiantly, turning the calm expanse of the bay into a milk-white sheen.
Frigate Birds, of which only two species are known, have a greater expanse of wing in proportion to the weight of their body than any other bird.
Such are the principal features of a prospect which is not the less beautiful because it rises from the level expanse of the sands, and which was to me the more interesting from the novelty of my own situation.
Two grim-looking men sat before a huge pile of turf, glowing fiercely from the wide expanse appropriated to several uses beside that of fireplace and chimney.
Not every pier is a mere isolated ruin; not under every arch can you look and see through it a broad expanse of blue Italian sky.
As you look at the vast expanse of the building, you wonder at the solitude.
Her canvas had probably just been unloosed to the breeze, which was directly after seen roughening the face of the broad, smooth expanse as it swept down toward us.
The vast expanse of sky was filled by evil-shaped clouds and wild colors.
A strange spectacle, a dog, an old man, a young man and a girl moving over an endless expanse of white, doing a forced march to escape from those whom they had come to save.
Thus far his progress had been irresistible, and should a mere expanse of water put an end to his westward march?
It is an expanse of open, rolling ground, bisected by one of the main roads between Tokio and Kioto and crossed by a road from Echizen.
All was one expanse of grass; there was no wood in view, except some trees and stunted bushes upon two islands which rose from amid the wet sands of the river.
Hawkeye and Heyward ascended an adjacent bluff, where the former, after considering the expanse of water beneath him, pointed out to the latter a small black object, hovering under a headland, at a distance of several miles.
About nine o'clock the storm broke, amid absolute darkness; it blew a gale, and torrents of rain roared over the boundless expanse of open prairie.
The river now flowed from south-west to north-east, with a noble expanse of six hundred yards; its majestic flood rolling like a volume of silver in the moonlight, with the reflection of stars sparkling thickly on the crests of its waves.
Here the Nile strikes sharply towards the south, forming a complete right angle; and broadens into an imposing expanse of shining waters.
Its speed is very surprising; in an incredibly short time it traverses a greatexpanse of country.
The sunnyexpanse of the winter-bound earth reflected as in a mirror the celestial panorama.
Beginning upon the confines of Chinese Tartary, its vast expanse of sterile wilderness stretches over some twelve hundred and fifty miles towards the coasts of the Pacific.
Another storm overtook the travellers, and converted the jungles through which they wound their way into a wide expanse of water.
Olive-tinted branches, and dark forests of fir and pine, contrasted strongly with the whitely shining expansethat spread as far as the eye could see.
But no shining expanse of fair waters greeted his eye; wherever he directed his gaze, he saw only an endless grassy, treeless plain, stretching to the farthest horizon.
Climbing to its summit, Mr. Atkinson enjoyed a noble view of the expanse of shining waters—one of those views which rests in the memory for ever, and is at all times a beauty and a joy.
Lady Macbeth had leaned forward and was clasping her knees, thus unconsciously widening theexpanse of pink gingham visible beneath the white robe.
The grass was like an expanse of gold, and below her the valley swam in golden mist.
The old man now opened the door, and Heidi followed him into a fairly spacious room, which took in the entire expanse of the hut.
Eastward was the expanse of blue water, widening and having no boundary in the extreme horizon, and confined every where else between the soft, green, lovely, and productive shores of Lothian and Fife.
Undoubtedly she will progress day by day under the shade of the Blessed Tree until her illumination shall penetrate throughout the wide expanse of the earth.
The expanse of heaving, tossing ice was just as beautiful to him as the smooth flow of Hendrick Hudson's waters, as they hasten to the sea.
Mathias was taken within twelve hours from his cell, then led to the jailer's lodge, where he was registered as leaving Loewestein, then taken to the Esplanade, from which there is a very fine prospect over a wide expanse of country.
It was still light enough to see, although indistinctly, through the gray haze of the evening, the vast expanse of the horizon.
The minister walked cautiously, noting in passing a portrait defaced with cobwebs over the marble mantelpiece and the great circular window opening upon an expanse of tangled grass and weeds, through which the sun streamed hot and yellow.
Having spoken, Judge Fulsom folded his fat hands across the somewhat soiled expanse of his white waistcoat and relapsed into a weighty silence.
The huge cake which was built up in successive steps, like a pyramid, was crowned on its topmost disk by a bridal scene, a tiny man holding his tiny veiled bride by the hand in the midst of an expanse of pink frosting.
Here the whole expanse of waterway exceeded even that of the Neva at St. Petersburg; and, although full of life and colour and sound, was nowhere crowded.
As they went out she could see nothing of the boys, only rocks rising through an expanse of mud, and the sea breaking beyond.
One of these extinct deer is well known as the Irish elk, by the enormous expanse of its broad-palmed antlers (fig.
The Sky is the familiar name used to express that wonderful and vast expanse of space which extends on all sides far beyond our knowledge or conception, and in which the earth and millions of other orbs move round suns as their centres.
The horse lowered his head and sniffed at the white expanse in front of him, then adventured upon it without more ado.
The procession passed through the pairs of lackeys, who, with an expression of relentlessness, pressed their lips together and closed their eyes, into the white and gold expanse of the Throne-room.
With a row of aged lime trees in front, it looked out over a broad expanse of meadowland fringed by a distant bluish circle of woods and intersected by paths, with many a bare patch of play-ground and hurdles for obstacle riding.
Two hours of this brought the command to the crest of a ridge from which, away to the right, a wide expanse of country lay in view.
But, looking from our eminence over the unbroken expanse of tree-tops, we could see a light yellow snake-like line stretching down the valley.
They saw no sign of the Indians for several miles; not even on the wide expanse of Laramie Plain.
The shadow came from behind him and stopped on the sunlit expanse of paper.
Even if they could get near them, nothing would induce young sheep to face a much less expanse of water.
