But, as it does so, it also attacks the cliffs that flank it, and as a consequence, the depression in which it lies tends to widen and to become semicircular in plan.
Separating these upland parks are the profound ice-cut canyons which, beyond the glacier ends, widenout into densely forested valleys, each containing a swift-flowing river.
The preponderating engineering opinion is that the city should not widen Adams Street, but remove the structure to the half block east of Adams Street.
Some say, why not widen Washington Street taking forty or fifty feet of private land along its westerly side and do nothing to disarrange the rest of the property between Washington Street and Fulton Street?
If this site were acquired for the new court house the Board of Estimate would probably refuse either to open the bridge plaza or widen Washington Street.
Because to widenyour art, you must widen your idea of woman.
We must widen the foundation if we extend the superstructure.
The third time, Widen yourselves, ye gates of the sanctuary and let Israel ben Phabi, the wilful, enter that he may discharge the functions of the priesthood!
The purpose of laws, said the Sophists, was to widen the possibilities of individual development; if laws did not do that, they had better be forgotten.
Perhaps by this medium too our Society would spread its reports and widen its influence.
The trees are not large, but so closely planted together that a great deal of labour was required to widen and heighten the path: where bamboos prevail they have starved out the woody trees.
I lightened the camels, and had a party of woodcutters to heighten and widen the path in the dense jungle into which we now penetrated.
At first the society was confined to students, but with the accession of the Freiherr von Knigge it was determined to widen the sphere of its operations.
When building leases are granted, if the road be narrow, as was lately the case at the West end of New-street, the proprietor engages to give a certain portion of land to widen it.
These streets are narrow at the entrance, and widen as you proceed: the narrow ends were formed with the main street at first, and were not, at that time, intended for streets themselves.
But as long as blind partyism prevails men will get into heated political discussions that only widen the gulf of misunderstanding.
Tom can widen his den, and all three of us kin sleep in it.
One of the first projects of Governor de Montmagny, after having fortified the place, was to prepare a plan for a city, to lay out, widen and straighten the streets, assuredly not without need.
Its effect is not only to widen the valley and deepen it, but also to advance the deep section farther up the stream and its tributaries.
Passing down the reaches of a great river as it approaches the sea, we find that the alluvial plains usually widenand become lower.
If he will take time to note what goes on, he can usually in an hour or two behold the first invisible crack widen until it may be half an inch across.
We readily note that these lights appear to close in behind us, and widen their intervals in the direction in which we journey.
To get troops quickly and secretly from Anzac to the outposts and to the foot of the deres up which the assaulting columns must approach the Turk, it was necessary to widen the communication trench known as the "Big Sap.
Two other important works were put in hand at once in the Anzac area; the first, to widen the long communication trench from Anzac to the outposts; the second, to make a road available for wheeled traffic along the beach.
With the peen of the hammer widenout the top enough to cut out the design shown here.
That is why in flattening down the weld care must be taken not to widen the iron at that place so that it is too thin.
The same tool will widen the line any width desired.
The tube must widen toward the other end, which is beaten out.
When this is put in through the hole, a chisel put in the opening will widen out the ends, thus preventing them from falling out.
He saw Storch's eyes widen at the arrogance of this unexpected thrust.
Yet she saw more than one pair of eyes widen with brief appraisal as she went by.
The success of this experiment doubtless encouraged the Government to widen the scope of the advances.
In the early days of the Province the Government, in order to widen the area of settlement, constructed all roads, bridges, and other local works out of national funds.
Often he reflected that the faults of her upbringing were the inevitable results of her life in the midst of idle people, and that it would be possible to deepen and widen her mind and sensations.
I think if there were anything good on the other side, I'd widen the gap so that the less agile and the needy could crawl through.
She had only to destroy the letter, and the breach between the two people whom she desired to separate would widen automatically.
We come not here to widen our separation--to drive them further off.
Let us not widen our dissensions; let us do nothing to postpone or destroy the only hope we have for the settlement of our troubles.
But we will do nothing to widenthe breach--we will do all we can to heal it.
Their use by either can only serve to widen the unhappy differences existing between us.
