A Guatemalan legend has its suggestion of that outreaching of man for fire from heaven, which is illustrated in the primitive and the classic myths of the ages.
A similar giving of blood, in proof of devotedness, and in outreaching for inter-communion with the gods through blood, is reported in India, in recent times.
Even the substitute blood which he presented at the altar, as he came with his outreaching after a blood-covenant union with the Lord, did not secure to him direct personal access to the symbolic earthly dwelling-place of the Lord.
But it soon appeared that this was an outreaching toward some vague social advantage, and that the actual acquisition through speller and copybook carried him and his children but a little way up.
These arches were formed of outreachingand interlacing arms of parallel growths of willow and birch clusters.
He fled at a racing gallop, and gave us an excellent side view of his clumsy, far-outreaching lively hind legs going it flatfooted.
One of the first things that a mission should do, after gathering the Christian community, is to organize, in the community, such activities as are outreaching and self-extending.
Hinduism is conserved by its social organism of caste; Christianity, by its leavening influence upon all that comes in contact with it, and theoutreaching power of its life within.
Our weakness is the strength of sin, But love must needs be stronger far, Outreachingall and gathering in The erring spirit and the wandering star.
The very gentlest of all human natures He joined to courage strong, And love outreaching unto all God's creatures With sturdy hate of wrong.
She staggered back a pace, then sank limply forward on her knees, her hands outreaching on the floor, her hair falling wildly, her posture that of a suppliant at a barbarian conqueror's feet.
Mackenzie inquired, not in the least displeased over this outreaching of justice after the fickle old man.
Long parallel rows, narrowing to a point under a distant hazy nimbus, marked the course of the outreaching arteries of a great city.
Open, face downward upon the surface of the desk where it had been pushed aside to make room for a rough sketch of the camp with its outreaching skidways and cross-hauls, lay a small volume.
Farther and farther into the timber he went, avoiding the outreaching skidways and the sound of axes.
Formless, save for the outreaching hand, it passed the casement's edge, nearing with pauses and hesitations the open gap beyond through which the neglected sapphires beamed with steady lustre.
On Beacon Hill, the stronghold of the old social order, there was an eager, outreaching intellectual life.
Always the outreaching hand of the past plucking at the garments of the present,--the traditions of an elder day or the consequences of a deed committed before the opening of the story.
Life had become a great outreaching drama at which he hinted in his cyclic "Christus: a Mystery.
A line, too, of steel-gray crystals topped every rail of the old worm fence, and capped the outreaching branches of the scattered trees.
It eyed me most suspiciously, and then slowly crawled out upon outreaching grass until quite above the water.
As a result of these teachings, which are not formal like school work, but given as opportunity offers and in as interesting and outreaching a way as possible, the child learns that all life develops in the same way.
With hands outreaching and faces in the sun they stood in a great tableau of farewell as we drew slowly away.
With armsoutreaching they stood above our new-made graves.
The strongest realization of his nature hitherto, that of the outreaching wants of others, weakened.
It was an instinctive outreaching of the young soul to perpetuate the knowledge of its existence upon this forgetful earth.
I reserve for them a special place in the worn case nearest my person, where at the mere outreaching of an idle hand I can summon them to beguile my moods.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "outreaching" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
