III Beauty of this kind stretches away from Dublin north and west over the broad fertile plain of Fingal, the territory of the "White Strangers", the fair-haired Norsemen.
North of the city are broad stretches of green fields, which lead the eye out to that still wider level of blue--colour laid cleanly in mass against colour.
The sheeted iron upon the roof Stretchesits weary hide and cracks; The spider weaves his windy woof In dingy closet cracks, And all a something lacks.
Most of this country was practically unknown to Americans, and the great stretches of arid land which comprised large portions of it were considered worthless and uninhabitable.
At first the journey was easy enough, for they passed across the snowy Illinois prairies, broken occasionally by great stretches of woodland, but when they reached the drowned lands of the Wabash, the march became almost incredibly difficult.
The first three lie along the shores of the Mediterranean--the last, inland, and stretches from the Ebro to the Pyrenees.
It stretches from the Post Road in old Narragansett, through field and meadow, and by the side of the oak grove, to the very edge of the bay.
She stretches up to light the cigarette over the flame, twirling it slowly, showing the brown tufts of her armpits.
He stretches out his arms, sighs again and curls his body.
Black Liz, a huge rooster hatching in a chalked circle, rises, stretches her wings and clucks.
He sighs and stretches himself, then murmurs thickly with prolonged vowels) Who.
He came on slowly, hat in hand, perspiration on his forehead; that climb from base to summit stretches a healthy walker and does him good.
Past the foot of it a thoroughfare stretches northward and southward, level and wide and smooth.
It annoyed him, too, that the soft ground compelled him to leave so plain a trail, as often for considerable stretches he sank over his moccasins at every step.
Stretches of ground under the hanging cliffs were bare of snow, and heaped high with dead leaves.
We come out here in the middle of the Broad Walk, which stretches from near the Kingston Road to the Thames' side.
Cygnus, which appears made up of filaments closely intertwined, and stretches across the sky for a distance considerably greater than the moon's diameter.
Alike in the darkness of the deep woods, and in the silver of the glades, and in the long twilight stretches of sassafras and sighing grass, there was for me but one vision.
Nor was the forest thick and tangled, but rather like an open park, so that among the trees were great stretches of ground wanting only to be tilled.
The frequency of the trips made by the mail couriers over the several stretches of this long route varied considerably.
In order to avoid the chances of capture on the water stretches or in the bay, the couriers were sent across the country through the centre of the province to Cumberland, as Amherst was then called, and thence on to Halifax.
Efficient roadmaking throughout Canada was attended with many difficulties, owing to the great stretches of land which were in the hands either of the crown or held as clergy reserves or which were held by speculators.
The lower part is designed as a dado in Proconessian striped marble, with upright posts of dark red at the angles and at intervals on the longer stretches of wall, and rests on a moulded marble base.
The other branch--which is in places a road, but more often a simple track--stretches off towards the south.
Such oases with thriving villages soften the lap of the landscape, and diversify the wide stretches of rich but idle soil which the network of trenches with their fertilising waters have not yet reached.
It stretches west and east without visible limits; and this evening it has all the appearance of water.
Figures, erect from the waist, are revealed in every posture; and it may happen that the cotton drapery has dropped from a woman's shoulders as she stretches her arms in the fancied seclusion of some partial screen.
It is in this neighbourhood that the single link connecting the belt with Caucasus stretches across the Georgian depression, dividing the Rion from the Kur; it may be known as the Meschic linking chain.
For a long time she had caught glimpses of it, ominously glimmering ahead of her, through the sunny mists of hope, across the wide stretches of trust.
But beyond the frowning headlines he imagined that he would find, far inland, quiet green stretches where he would rest, and think of her.
Sometimes he tried to get a glimpse of the upper stretches of the river; but this was a dangerous trick when all his attention was demanded by the work on hand.
Embankments suddenly showed themselves high in the air, and as suddenly dipped again; then there were long stretches of coppice, with red bracken, and a sprinkling of gold on the oaks.
The broad Missouri stretches far Her commerce-gathering arms, And multiply on Arkansas The grain-encumbered farms.
For the tall reeds that lined some stretches of its shore were even now whistling faintly in the summer breeze.
As I look back on my life, eventful enough in spots, but placid, even monotonous in the long stretches between spots, I think the greatest thrill I ever experienced was when I saw the dead body of Sampson Tracy.
Through the glasses he could see tiny homesteads, miles of unsettled stretches broken only by a rough road, and an occasional traveler scooting along in a car or seeming to crawl behind a team of horses.
Almost at the edge of the cliff the land stretches away for about three hundred miles and that's pretty dry.
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