The best you have will not be too good for my friends,” declared our host in an expansive mood.
Fatty” was a broad and beaming man, of immense geniality, and in every sense a most expansive person.
His mind was expansive towards foreign markets, and his imagination could see that the people from whom we took corn might be able to take the cotton goods which they had hitherto dispensed with.
Frequently that which fell in was again driven out by the expansive force of the suddenly compressed air.
There is only one series of bodies in nature, belonging to the peripheric and expansive functions, that conducts; the metals only are conductors.
He was not a man to whom the expression of admiration came easily: his long sallow face and distrustful eyes seemed always barricaded against the expansive emotions.
Light and perspicuous in construction, he is master of the delicate play of irony, the penetrating force of wit, and the expansivegaiety of frolicsome fun.
The expansive tendencies of later Portuguese dramatic literature are illustrated by the translations of A.
Under the otherwise beneficent operation of their government, however, the healthful and expansive energies of the state were sufficient to heal up these and deeper wounds, and still carry it onward in the career of prosperity.
But the gentle firmness of the ideal house-ruler is as genially expansive as the warm southern airs that come in April, and make us forget, in a moment, the long bitterness of winter.
Hats were as expansive if not as expensive in this hemisphere of the social world as in his own; while pride and social prejudice were common properties of both.
The words came oozing out in the oiliest of his unctuous tones; and the elocutionist's expansive glance fell first on the landscape patronizingly, then on the by-standers encouragingly.
So, after an expansive benediction, and an entreaty that they would be early at church on the morrow, he went "to his own place.
Whether regarded from the point of view of its noble situation, or from that of the artistic treasures which find a lodgment in its interior, Hauteville House is a place to inspire a poet of a far less expansive imagination than Victor Hugo.
No man had ever a greater heart--Shakspeare, and few others only, a moreexpansive intellect.
According to rabbinical teaching, each letter of the Hebrew alphabet has a certain symbolic significance, and when examined in this manner, the root from which this word is derived conveys the idea of Expansive Movement.
If the Constrictive element be allowed to go further than giving necessary form to the Expansive element, it imprisons the latter.
Now, if we think deeply upon this question, we shall gradually come to see that this expansive quality is to be found in the doctrine of the Atonement.
They are the Expansiveand Constrictive primal elements, the "rouah" and "hoshech" of the Hebrew Genesis.
What expansive views of creation were afforded me in my universal journey!
Where formerly deserts lay waste and wild, now the blooming roses and expansive lawns can be seen.
His height is about five feet ten inches, with an expansive chest and broad shoulders.
Soothed and in that expansive frame of mind induced by the old and bold, I drew her a picture--vivid, startling, wonderful.
He told me all about it one day in one of his expansive moods.
General Shepherd used his time and the more expansive facilities on Guadalcanal to conduct progressive, work-up training, from platoon to regimental level.
But as expansive and dramatic as the Battle of Okinawa proved to be, both sides clearly saw the contest as a foretaste of even more desperate fighting to come with the inevitable invasion of the Japanese home islands.
She succeeded, however, in restraining theexpansive impulse.
At fourteen she was certainly more enthusiastic, vivacious, and expansive than Enid had been at that age.
This condensation obviously militates against the expansive or working power of the steam.
The idea of such utilization of a gas other than water vapor is by no means new, but there have been practical difficulties in the way of the construction of a commercial engine to make use of the expansive power of ordinary gases.
Just what share Black had in developing Watt's idea, or in directing his studies toward the expansiveproperties of steam, it would perhaps be difficult to say.
Meantime, an interesting effort to utilize the expansive property of heated air was made by Dr.
I suppose you're not sorry you gave up acting, Charles,' said Miss Wainwright, with her most expansive affability.
We shall not more than allude here to these contrivances proposed by Watt, since their application has never been found advantageous in cases where the expansive principle is used.
The method by which the greatest quantity of practical effect can be obtained from a given quantity of fuel must, however, mainly depend on the extended application of the expansive principle.
By computation, we find the power of this engine to be nearly the same as a similar engine on Watt's expansive principle.
In the engines of Boulton and Watt, where the expansive principle was applied, the steam was cut off after the piston had performed from one half to two thirds of the stroke, according to the circumstances under which the engine was worked.
This method of rendering the expansive principle available at sea, and compatible with low-pressure steam, has recently been brought into operation by Messrs.
It is evident that the expansive principle, as here explained, involves the condition of a variation in the intensity of the moving power.
It was not until after he had organised that part of the establishment at Soho which was appropriated to the manufacture of steam engines, that he proceeded to apply the expansive principle.
This notion involved the whole principle of the expansive action of steam, which subsequently proved to be of such importance in the performance of steam engines.
A clever fellow was acquainted with the expansive force of steam; he also saw the wealth of wheat and grass rotting in Michigan.
Even a high dome, and the expansive interior of a cathedral, have a sensible effect on manners.
Its vital expansive influence has gone out through all the world and its words to the end of it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "expansive" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
