With a magnificent final burst of speed, the boat swept through the water, reaching the point well ahead of its rival.
Reaching into the letter she drew forth a long yellow slip.
On reaching the ground the lid had flown open, and the necklace was thrown out.
They were piled on a shelf behind the counter, but I had no difficulty in reaching across and taking the one on top, which I slipped into my pocket.
It will be remembered that the King of England made a round of visits to European capitals, the far-reaching results of which in the interest of peace we perhaps do not yet fully understand and appreciate.
The fact that trees still remained where protected by a stream would indicate that far-reaching and probably repeated fires have swept across those countries and stopped at the shore.
Before reaching Ben's wagon, one of the whiffletrees became detached, a pin having come out in the deep water.
Our party, moving as steadily as possible, had consumed twenty-five days in reaching this point from the Missouri River.
On reaching the camp I reported my observations to the boys and reminded them of Captain Whitmore's experience and advice.
At that moment we were startled to discover an arm reaching upward from the earth.
On the night before reaching the pass, the peaks of the Wind River Range rose grandly in the northwest.
On reaching these sacred precincts, we rode through on horseback and discovered that there was really no fort at Fort Kearney.
And now, while the western mountains were casting their far-reaching shadows across this broad basin beneath us, the cold, snow-mantled sides of the Wind River Range were dazzling and glittering in the level beams of the setting sun.
But, young girl, there are hundreds of canyons and branch canyons reaching out from the valleys around Salt Lake basin.
Reaching out at arm's length, he cautiously poked the mound with his whip stock and found, not a rattlesnake, but only an oval-shaped cactus slightly concealed beneath the sand.
It was sometime after noon when a mule train was observed in the distance, and on reaching it I learned from one of the drivers that the name of the owners was upon the search warrant.
On reaching it, their horses were brought to a sudden stop.
It was therefore a great surprise, on now again reachingthe train, to learn that the girl had thus far shared the hardships and perils of the entire journey.
For forty miles this line of bluffs continues, almost reaching to Compiègne, where the Aisne enters the Oise.
The few who safely got across the bridge and those who were successful in reaching the farther bank of the Aisne alive, reached Soissons eventually.
Before reaching its junction with the Save it is fed by many important tributaries.
There was no chance of aid reaching it now, and it was weakened from efforts to force the barriers that had been put across its path.
The cutters were just about reaching knee-deep water at the shore when this surprise came, and it was augmented when, with the protection of the guns of the vessel, the men in these cutters showed themselves to be a hostile landing party.
In order to secure good corners, the roll is lifted just before reaching the corner and a corner tool is used for the corner itself.
Speak, fellow,' snarled Saxon, and reaching out a long sinewy arm he seized the loquacious clerk by the lappet of his gown, and shook him until his long sword clattered again.
As it was, we scarce met a soul before reaching my father's door.
Clearly it was the desire of my unknown benefactor that I should ascend by it, so I went up hand over hand, and after some difficulty in squeezing my shoulders through the hole I succeeded in reaching the room above.
There would, we hoped, be no great difficulty in our reaching Monmouth's forces when the hour came.
And it was at that moment that Newt Spooner, so close that they could almost have heard his breathing, was reaching into his pocket for his borrowed revolver.
Corporal Spooner and the other man were reaching out to grasp the projecting roots that fringed the opposite shore, but, as the second man crawled up on the bank, there appeared on his naked flesh a constantly spreading splotch of crimson.
You pledged me your far-reaching influence with the army--you were what you still are, the Mother of the Camps.
It pleased God that a Christian priest, whom a recently converted friend secretly introduced into my house, succeeded in reaching my bedside.
The long line of cavalry reaching far to my right and left was now only a few paces from me.
On reaching the summit, we found the courts about the Temple of Jupiter already occupied by detachments of foot.
The Assinniboine joins it just before reaching Lake Winnipeg, and up that stream we may steam due west two hundred and thirty miles to Fort Ellis.
Striking that, we should have no difficulty in reaching the settlements of the Otter-Tail, forty miles south.
On over the prairies we fly, reaching the oldest town in the State, Mendota, which was a trading-post of the American Fur Company as long ago as 1828.
Going through the Deer Lodge Pass, we find that the stream changes its name very often before reaching the Pacific.
The river and lake together have thrown up the long and narrow strip of land called Minnesota Point, reaching nearly across the head of the lake, and behind which lies the bay.
After South Newington we had another long stretch of very lonely road, but charming on account of its loneliness; the country we passed through was elevated and undulating and afforded us many fine and far-reaching prospects.
At Cemmaes we found ourselves in the wider valley of the Dovey; then we rose again to another moorland high above it, with far-reaching prospects over the river to a confusion of bare hill-tops rising above the deep woods below.
I forgave the road for its straightness on account of the long and goodly green vista it afforded me, reaching even to the far-away blue--and it was delightfully free from traffic.
On reaching the place where the figure had stood, it was nowhere to be seen.
Reaching the main road, Matt turned in the direction of Lamy and the cliffs.
Your fin, mate," said Ferral, reaching over and clasping Matt's hand.
When they came to the chasm they paused to note how the road, in reaching its treacherous path along the edge, broke suddenly from a straight line into a sharp curve.
We succeeded that day in reaching the rapid where we caught the few trout that some animal stole from us, and there we camped.
But now we felt we could look forward to reachinghome as a certainty.
He warned Donald that the deep snow up the valley might have prevented me from reaching the tent, but that in any event they would find me near the river.
We knew that these scraps had been rotting for two months, but we looked forward hopefully to reaching them on the morrow.
The first day of the forty-mile portage we had to make before reaching fairly continuous water had been, as a whole, depressing.
This, together with the difficulty we were having in reaching the "big water," set Hubbard to worrying again.
It was like reaching home to be on shipboard again, and I felt that my troubles were ended.
At one o'clock the wind abated to such an extent that we succeeded in leaving the island and reaching the mainland to the northeast.
I realised now that my hope of reaching Hubbard that night was vain.
Geraldine, uponreaching the Lee home, found the other girls there before her.
Upon reaching the kitchen she looked around hastily to see where she could again hide the money.
On reaching home, Waymark wrote a few lines to Ida, merely to say that Grim was provided for, and assure her that she was not forgotten.
I get often like that, but this time things seemed reaching a head.
The address was at Fulham, and, on reaching it, he found a large new block of the kind known as model lodging-houses.
Then a gathering of flowers by Ida and Miss Hurst, and one given to each of the children, with injunctions to put it in water on reaching home, and keep it as long as possible in memory of the day.
Julian's eyes glistened at the sight of two goodly bookcases, reaching from floor to ceiling.
Reaching the block of tenements which had been Ida's home, he sought out the porter.
Reaching the garret, he tried the handle of the door, without effect.
Maud Enderby, on reaching home after her meeting with Ida, entered the front parlour, and sat down in silence near the window, where faint daylight yet glimmered.
The Bangala woman wore, and still wears, a girdle at the waist, from which hung a fringe of grass or vegetable fiber reaching to the knees.
A man usually selects his black companion shortly after reaching the Congo and supports her in his own house, where he treats her on the whole with kindness.
He went to the alcove where the works on philosophy were to be found, and was reaching up for the volume he wanted, when a sentence from a lowly murmured conversation in the next aisle came to him across the stack of books.
He stood there motionless, his hand still reaching up for the book.
He never said a thing that gratified him as reaching toward the things not easy to say but that he would find Gretta's face illumined--and always that eager little leaning ahead for more.
She dreamed cooling dreams about them, dreams of their reaching farther than one's fancy could reach, big widening dreams of their standing there serene in the consciousness of their own immensity.
On reaching the `shore' or edge of the ditch he projects his head over it, and some six or eight inches of the neck, while the rest of the body slides down the slope.
The thatch has grown so thick in the course of years by the addition of fresh coats that it projects far from the walls and forms wide, far-reaching eaves.
In summer it is a broad winding trench with low green banks, along whose bed you may stroll dry-shod, with the yellow corn on either hand reaching above your head.
The fact that the call apparently issues from the grass in one place, and yet upon reaching it the bird is not to be found, has given rise to the belief that the crake is a ventriloquist.
Now and then the western clouds after the sunset assume a shape resembling that of a vast extended wing, as of a gigantic bird in full flight--the extreme tip nearly reaching the zenith, the body of the bird just below the horizon.
I believe that he has not attended to this matter, but rather has utterly neglected it; for I am persuaded that, inreaching the accounts of his own term, he has to keep things very private for the above-mentioned reasons.
In hopes of reaching an anchorage before dark we stood in for Bull Road, East Falkland Island, but after running fourteen miles, and sighting Sealion Islands, this was found impracticable.
The women wear a petticoat of shreds of pandanus leaf, plaited above into a waistband and below reaching nearly to the knee.
The women whom we saw wore loose petticoats of leaves reaching to below the knees.
Wall rode back to see if he could bring up the horse we had left behind, but onreaching the spot found him dead; one of our kangaroo-dogs had also stopped behind by the horse, being unable to follow us to the camp.
I did not mention this to the rest of the party, for fear it might still further tend to depress their spirits, as three or four of them even now seemed to despair of ever reaching our destination.
On reaching the coast we hailed the boat, which was anchored off a little, and waded out to it.
They rather show that the mind is conscious of the possibility of reaching a frame or mood in which it perceives what it seeks, immediately and correctly.
The rules of evidence as regards events are well known, and also the principles of reaching the laws of phenomena by inductive methods.
He did not form even in his dreams any hope of reachingthe heights where the duchess dwelt.
In the centre of the balcony, precisely opposite the Green Box, and in a compartment having for entrance a window reaching to the ground, there had been partitioned off a space "for the nobility.
Of a sudden he was attacked by fresh forces, reaching him from unknown depths; this time, with menaces no longer, but with smiles and caresses.
Those were two long arms--that of the King of France reaching London; that of the King of England, Paris!
On reaching the summit of the rocky wall he found himself turned towards the land, and looked at it attentively.
The child, strange wrestler at war with all these risks, had succeeded in reaching the bottom of the descent, and had gained Chesil.
After the last halt they made before reaching Tarifa, Garry was, as usual, at hand, to assist Juana to her saddle.
On reaching the door, he wrote over the same, with a bit of chalk, part of the speech of Henry V.
Thus they proceeded till the sun rose high in the heavens, when, on reaching a grove on the edge of one of the plains, they halted under a huge cork-tree, near which ran a rivulet.
On reachingthe stem the cable passed overboard through a 'chock' of a semicircular shape, lined with iron.
Trusting that he had out-travelled pursuit, he encamped on the border of the river; still it was an anxious night, and he was up at daybreak to devise some means of reaching the opposite bank.
It was determined to attempt reaching the Plains by scaling the cliffs at night.
After putting to sea, the fleet was a week in reaching the Capes of Delaware.
Nothing, say the British chroniclers, could exceed the exertions of the detachment; but Morgan succeeded in reaching the Catawba and crossing it in the evening, just two hours before those in pursuit of him arrived on its banks.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "reaching" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: accomplishment; achievement; advent; appearance; approach; attainment; coming; pursuit
