He fell back upon the ground from which, by a mighty effort, he had risen to stretch his arms toward the vision.
To the south, of Machecoul, forming a triangle round the village of Légé, stretch three forests.
Sitting in the stern of the boat, he looked excitedly at the fisherman, as the latter bent to his oars and put at every stroke a stretch of water between him and danger.
Yes, we're in the stretch now, Worry, and running strong.
It's been a long, hard drill for you, Worry, but we're in the stretch now and going to finish fast.
He turned first base and saw that he might stretch the hit into a three-bagger.
Only in thestretch you got one ball too low," said Reddy.
We passed along, athwart the twilight peering Forward as far as ever eye could stretch Against the sunbeams serotine and lucent; And lo!
And unless I am mistaken there's a way down the cliff just here which will land us on a stretchof firm sand where no one is likely to follow us.
But my dominions stretch from the olives of Italy to the fir-woods of Denmark, and there is no nook of all of them in which I have not done a sin.
Indeed, never did more docile cattle march under the whip of a master, or stretch the neck to the butcher's knife!
Strip him, stretch him on the gridiron and stir the coals.
The estuary of the Thames may be said to stretch from London Bridge to Sheerness in the Isle of Sheppey, which is divided from the mainland by the narrow channel (bridged at Queensbridge) of the Swale.
He talked to her more than he had done at a stretch for a long time, and made it so apparent how completely he calculated upon her as always his companion that Lady Markland's guilty soul was troubled within her.
The garden extended to the right with a long stretch of high wall, but the house had been built at a period when people had less objection to a street than in later times.
Chatty was aware that the moon was at the full, and would have liked to stretch her young limbs with a run; but she dared not even think of such a thing in sight of Minnie's face.
Anyhow, he continued to walk along the level stretch of road beyond the wood; and Geoff, upon his back, made no remonstrance.
She did not know how she was to get back to the house, over that long stretch of road, without any one to help her, and thought with a sickening and failing of her heart of the long way.
When I left Queen's my future seemed to stretch out before me like a straight road.
He must stretch to the oar for his own credit, as well as that of his friends; and if he does so, there can be no doubt that his efforts will be doubly blessed, in reference both to himself and to public utility.
You know you may stretch a point on this occasion.
If Casey remembered the lay of the land, there was a long, straight stretch of track, ending in several curves, the last of which turned sharply into the narrow cut where the Sioux would ambush and obstruct the train.
Through cracks he could see out over an uneven stretch of tents and houses.
During the first week of tramping he thoroughly learned the lay of the land, the topography of his particular stretch of Sherman Pass.
It did not seem possible to live that interminable stretch without seeing Allie Lee.
He turned the curve into a stretch of straight track where there came a perceptible increase in the strength of the breeze against his face.
Through a wide tear in the canvas she saw a stretch of flat ground covered with stakes and boards and denuded frameworks and piles of debris.
The team, striking a stretch of glare-ice, was blown straight across it to pile up in a heap on the other side.
The surprise of their journey came when, after passing through a wide stretch of timber, they arrived quite suddenly upon an open space.
We were glad of a few hours' respite to run about and stretch our weary limbs.
Then follows a long smooth stretch of water with grassy wooded shores, and through the trees one catches distant glimpses of yet wider and more beautiful falls than those just passed.
From under the shelter of a friendly pine I look out upon a long stretch of water, two miles and more, to a sloping beach of a few yards in width, and then a belt of young trees growing back to a rugged mountain gorge.
It requires no stretch of the imagination to thus consider.
And people who have had to go through a long stretch of brain work have lain in a stupor for weeks afterwards, unable to use their minds or even know what was going on around them.
At the very time when, by the experience he has gained, his years of greatest usefulness stretch before him, he is cut off, incapacitated by nervous debility.
Stretch out the arms in front, with the finger-tips touching those of the opposite hand.
Stretch them out again in the same way, and try to touch the toes, keeping the knees straight.
Along the eastern coast of the Red Sea, sometimes thrusting its spurs of red sandstone and porphyry into the waves, sometimes drawing away and leaving a wide stretch of lowland, runs a rugged range of mountain.
If thou stretch forth to me thy hand to slay me, I will notstretch forth to thee my hand to slay thee; for I fear God, the Lord of the worlds.
The true son of the desert must in the old times do more than stretch his limbs contentedly under the shade of the overhanging rock.
It was this rush along the home stretch that all of the spectators were most anxious to witness.
It was not very thickly grown, and there was really only a stretchof about one hundred feet where he did not find himself in sight of some house or other.
When he had left for Churchill this streak, which was the last stretch of road-bed between them and the surveyed line of the Hudson's Bay Railway, had ended two miles to the south and west.
He walked swiftly now, following close along the shore in the hard stretch kept bare by the tides, until he came to the red coals of half a dozen Indian fires on the edge of the forest beyond the company's buildings.
Within six months we had a hundred and fifty men at Blind Indian Lake, fifty canoemen bringing in supplies, and another gang putting in stations over a stretch of more than a hundred miles of lake country.
No power on earth could save the wretched men, who vanished into the morass--for such it was--ere any of the party had even time to stretch out a hand to help them.
Sending three men to stretch a hundred-fathom cable from the submarine, and to anchor its farther end to a great ice-pan, he dropped below to return at once with a package.
Just before them, within possible area of landing, lay a perfectly level stretch of ice.
Then below them lay yellow lights and deep purple shadows, with here and there a stretch of black, which told of open water between floes.
But how was that stretch of tumbled icefloe to be crossed?
That willstretch your legs a bit," said the Major.
Where the ice-pan had been was a long stretch of black water that slowly widened until it was quite large enough to float the submarine and allow it to submerge.
But suddenly, as they were soaring over the wildest, most treacherous-looking stretch of floe ice that eyes have ever rested upon, the plane gave a lurch.
The fact that they often do stretch words in order to cover cases is the whole foundation of having any fixed laws or free institutions at all.
They did not stretch the rack out, as we are doing.
