This he repeated several times and then he held up one hand with the fingers outspread and touching them one by one, including the thumb, repeated the word adenen until the stranger understood that he meant five.
The head, hood, and front paws of the creature were depicted as though it lay crouching with its lower jaw on the ground between its outspread paws.
Standing close to her head he held the rug outspread above her face.
Fiction becomes less interesting than affairs, and poetry turns into a sort of incompetent whimper, a childish fore-shortening of theoutspread world.
She sat with her armsoutspread across the table and her head bent upon a pile of papers.
He had the morning's paper propped up before him and an outspread book rested by his plate, while he held a large volume balanced on his knee, which he paused occasionally to consult.
So adroitly obtruding (or forcing) a particular card of an outspread pack upon the notice of an unsuspecting party, that he unhesitatingly selects that identical card.
Its wings outspread reached further than the height of a man; we must go and show it to the brothers.
What is to be done," inquired Darvid, with outspread palms which indicated regret.
It was a tremendous affair, fully two by four feet, and Eleanor was down upon her knees, hands outspread and locks flying, too absorbed to be aware of Mammy's presence.
At his back hung a curtain of richest Tyrian purple, in the centre of which gleamed a silver dove with outspread wings, the symbol of Tyre from those ancient days when its commerce and renown began to fly abroad over the world.
With a muffled squawk it bounced into the air, both talons outspread and clawing madly; but in a second Horner had it by the other wing, pulling it down, and rolling himself over upon it so as to smother those dangerous claws.
Take those letters, and this," pushing forward the outspread scrawl, "and see if you can figure out who wrote it.
For some moments the Chief sat wrinkling his brow and gazing upon the two letters outspread before him.
There are examples in which, while the two thieves are shown as crucified, the Lord stands in the midst with outspread arms, but with no cross save that in the nimbus above His head.
Now it was cut, and lying outspread upon the ground in odd regularity, an occasional head only being left to run to seed.
Standing upon the loose earth, you may see the blackened fireplace far above your head, before which fair faces grew rosy centuries ago, and where white hands were outspread that have been dust and mould for ages.
Time was taken to impress the outspread picture it afforded lastingly on the memory, for we could not reasonably expect to ever behold it again.
Here the tree springs up in the exact shape of an outspread feather-fan, as though it were artificially trained, and reaches the height of thirty or forty feet, making a very distinctive feature of the scenery.
Nor is it difficult for one, the last of whose life is being recorded, to review the outspread roll of it, and trace the unerring forces which have drawn for themselves.
The choral character of the performance made the warning check of Mr. Tomes's outspread hand plausible.
Its silhouette of outspread fingers seems to satisfy her, and not to interfere with the thoughts that her drooped eyelids and fixed look are grave about.
He did not see the things that lay outspread below him.
He leaned there, hands outspread against the wall behind him, staring at Joel with goggling eyes.
Afar, where sea and sunrise meet, Tall portals bathed in gold and red, From either door a carven head Smiles down on men full drowsilie 'Mid mystic forms of wings outspread Between the Gates of Ivorie.
Summer has seen decay Of roses white and red, And Love with wings outspread Speeds after yesterday.
It was like a large bird soaring on vast, silently outspread wings.
The sight of the pale, still sleeper, with her outspread black hair, made Johannes also feel drowsy.
He lifted up his outspread hands--then covered his face with them, and began to weep and wail, loudly.
It was only a dream on the throbbing strings, An echo of Nature in phantasy wrought, A breath of her breath and a touch of her wings From a kingdom outspread in the regions of thought.
Cherry might have sung till her little throat was tired, and Mr. Prong might have expressed his awe with outspread hands, and have looked as though he expected the skies to fall.
It was there that love for him had first come upon her--had come over her with broad outspread wings like an angel; but whether as an angel of darkness or of light, her heart had then been unable to perceive.
And sleep having come, notwithstanding love and an impulse to weep, she threw herself roughly in her bed, hiding her face in the silken masses floating round her outspread like a veil.
It usually sits on a twig near the ground, and at intervals soars up to a height of ten or twenty yards, and utters its song while gliding slowly downwards with depressed wings and outspread tail.
Do you see yonder figure leaning over the railing of the boat, gazing on all this outspread wealth of beauty?
The little child runs out, with outspread palm, to catch the cool and pearly drops.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "outspread" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
