We were lifted; between us and the woman and girl a cleft appeared; it widenedinto a rift.
The crack widened--widened as a gulley in a sand bank does when a swift stream rushes through it.
In the wall of the City appeared a shining crack; from top to bottom it ran; it widened into a rift from which a flood of radiance gushed.
Fourth: Though themes have changed and widened in range, still the great majority have been confined to extraordinary events and illustrious persons.
On the east and west, openings were visible, through which several rivers, taking their rise in the mountains, wound their way and widened their valleys toward the lowlands.
Since the fall of the most projecting part of it, two or three winters since, a large and very deep crack has widened around the remaining area of the platform above, and it is thought that it will scarce survive the next frost.
The river rapidly widened below Chester, and the little houseboat swung out into mid-stream.
At certain places where the valley widened Gerard had taken advantage of a few hillocks to make islands and plant them with trees of varied foliage.
The pupils of her eyes, gifted with the power of great expansion, wideneduntil they covered the whole surface of the blue iris except for a tiny circle.
She meditated on what she read, she compared systems, she widened immeasurably the horizons of her intellect and the extent of her education; in this way she opened the gates of her soul to curiosity.
Then I expect the cat has eaten it," said Mrs. Caniper with resignation, but her mouth widened delightfully into what might have been its natural shape.
Helen was on her side, her head rested on her outstretched arm, and her face was puckered, her mouth widenedwith the noise she made.
Lily's gaze widened in her attempt to see what Helen's point of view would be and she spoke slowly, that, if possible, she might not offend.
The debouches were ordered widened to afford easy egress, while the approaches were also to be widened to admit the troops to pass through four abreast.
And then they were inside, in the heart of the ship, and their eyes widened as they stared at the thing in the center of the great vaulted chamber.
Jouaneaux widened his mouth pinkly as he became retrospective.
We've widened the old wagon-shop out some few lines since you knew us, and I've been making a round of the agencies.
The discolored line of the vein had widened to four inches or more, and the last of the broken rock shoveled out was freely mixed with fragments of the bluish-brown gangue-matter.
The lead has widened to over six inches, and we have two more sacks of the stuff picked out and ready to take to town.
To name the biggest of them, our marvelous Golconda vein had widened steadily with the increasing depth until now we were sinking in solid ore.
They went in, and the hole widened as they went, until they came to a large cave like a townhouse.
After a little, the pupils widened in a sort of terror.
The nostrils of his beak-like nose widened a little, and a curious look came into his face.
Patricia--with eyes widenedin admiration at his rhetoric,--had turned an enticing shade of pink.
The student who collects a supply of the foregoing materials will find she has considerably widened her knowledge during the process, and is better prepared to make designs.
Commence by overcasting the threads from point D, and upon reaching the part where the pattern is widened out, change the stitch to an open buttonholing (as shown on line B).
Knit around in pattern, and when you come to the thumb cast on 7 stitches, or one third the number widenedfor the thumb.
Howsoever the towns widened their borders, there was still a growing population which lingered just outside the circle of free citizens, shut out by one cause or another from full municipal liberty.
Here and there, in places where the river widened out, the travellers came upon herds of hippopotami disporting themselves in the shallows.
At this point the gully had widened out, and the water fell over a broad smooth ledge of rock, dashing on the stones after a descent of some fifty or sixty feet.
But the gap widened as soon as the six strong paddlers had settled down to their quickened stroke.
Perceiving that the streamlet flowed from an opening of some width in the inner rock, Fritz passed through, in order to trace it to its source, presently shouting to me that the opening widened very much, and begging me to follow him.
As they went on, this sometimes widened to twenty feet or more, sometimes narrowed to three feet, as the wall kept straight along without following the irregularities of the rock.
Late in the evening they found themselves at a spot where the ravine widenedinto a valley.
At length, however, the slope became more gradual, and the ravine widened out into a valley, apparently about half a mile wide and a mile long.
An enlightened municipal authority has widened streets, planted broad boulevards, and cleansed the waterworks which Jacques Lelieur first sketched in the early years of the sixteenth century.
A hundred years ago and more the lower arches of the Pont du Gard were widened to make a bridge, and when at last we were packed and loaded again we drove across this bridge for the nearer view.
