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Sentences starting with spread

Spread the long table's full array, There sits a ghost in every chair! [6]
Spread out your skirt, you Redhead! [10]
Spread o'er my couch thy visionary wing! [6]
Spread out the cloak, Antonov. [2]
Spread your wings and leave me. [6]

Sentences ending with spread

All of them, with the questionable exception of the Springfield tree above referred to, stop, so far as my experience goes, at about twenty-two or twenty-three feet of girth and a hundred and twenty of spread. [6]
But the tree which Jahn had planted grew, and its branches spread. [9]
His look fell upon the long pathway whereon, for three hundred yards, matting had been spread. [11]
The only way to prevent it is to vaccinate, so to speak, with two or three houses, and wait; then it is not so likely to spread. [4]
The English themselves planted it there, two hundred and fifty years ago, and there it remains; it has never spread. [5]
We must find one, or make one, before the tea-things are taken away and the table is no longer spread. [6]
Once launched upon my college days, Timmins went on with all sails spread. [4]
A vague terror, maliciously born, subtly spread. [9]
We all moved into the illusive shade of the fig and magnolia trees, and lunch was soon spread. [11]
If Clint was in the wrong I'd kill Greevy jest the same, for Greevy robbed him of all the years that was before him--only a sapling he was, an' all his growin' to do, all his branches to widen an' his roots to spread. [11]

Short sentences using spread

So the news had spread. [5]
These spread her fame. [5]
A panic arose and spread. [5]
Bow your neck and spread! [5]

Sentences containing spread two or more times

The thing grew and grew and spread and spread and became exceedingly embarrassing. [5]
Now it rose, and again it fell into tones so low as to start a stir which spread and spread, like a ripple in a pond, until it broke on the very edge of that vast audience. [9]

More example sentences with the word spread in them

Say--the next time you're going in there, don't you reckon you could spread the door and--" "No, indeedy! [5]
Eagles, spread out your wings,-- Behold where the red dawn is breaking! [11]
Eagles spread out your wings, Behold where the red dawn is breaking! [11]
Ye temple-servants, seize your staves, and spread in every part of the city the news of the miracle which the Divinity has vouchsafed to us. [10]
This is a young tree, with a future before it, if barbarians do not meddle with it, more conspicuous for its spread than its circumference, stretching not very far from a hundred feet from bough-end to bough-end. [6]
And I'll warrant you cannot conceive the havoc and consternation their fulfilment would spread in England. [9]
In the daytime you can hitch it up against the wall, out of the way--and then you have a big unencumbered and most comfortable room to spread out in. [5]
The skin was wrinkled, but shone, the hair spread white, the nose almost met the chin, the mouth was all malice. [11]
This increase, however, would not have been possible had not these rude people spread into the adjoining districts, and worked for hire. [1]
No doubt it would bring him money and spread his name very widely. [4]
She is already worshipped, and we must expect this feeling to spread territorially, and also to deepen in intensity [1]. [5]
She is already worshiped, and we must expect this feeling to spread, territorially, and also to deepen in intensity. [5]
Oh, see what woman's woes and human wants require, Since that great day hath spread the seed of sinful fire. [5]
She shall live with me: I will spread the cedar branches and stir the fire. [11]
The regents, leagued with Arsinoe, spread the rumour that Cleopatra would deliver Egypt up to Pompey, if the senate would secure to her the sole sovereignty of the new province, and leave her free to rid herself of her royal brother and husband. [10]
But the west windows gave a broad outlook across the common, beyond which the historical "Washington elm" and two companions in line with it, spread their leaves in summer and their networks in winter. [6]
He put the will carefully back in its place, and spread his mouth and swung his hat once, twice, three times around his head, in imitation of three rousing huzzahs, no sound issuing from his lips. [5]
Man has spread widely over the face of the earth, and must have been exposed, during his incessant migrations (63. [1]
The great bear-hunter, who keeps one of the summer boarding-houses, received my story with a smile of incredulity; and the incredulity spread to the other inhabitants and to the boarders as soon as the story was known. [4]
And tell him who is beyond and away in Egypt that old Soolsby's busy making a chair for him to sit in when the scarlet cloth is spread, and the East and West come to salaam before him. [11]
His descent upon Whitehaven spread terror and consternation broadcast through England, and he was branded as a pirate and a traitor. [9]
There are plants which open their flowers with the first rays of the sun; there are others that wait until evening to spread their petals. [6]
The patched tablecloths which he spread over the tops were coarse and much worn; the dishes carried after him by the two assistants, whose knees bent under the burden, were made of tin, and marred by many a dent. [10]
Our own bed where we spread our blankets was excellent in one respect,--there was no danger of tumbling out of it. [4]
And virgin valleys, where future generations were to be born, spread out and narrowed again,--valleys with a deep carpet of cane and grass, where the deer and elk and bear fed unmolested. [9]
I have forgotten what Miller Gorse was called; nothing so classic as a Minotaur; Judd Jason was a hairy spider who spread his net and lurked in darkness for his victims. [9]
I must take what is left of this wreck and run out of your presence and carry it away to my home and spread it out there and sleep the sleep of the righteous. [5]
Thus the slopes were spread as with priceless carpets for a festival. [9]
If now he were only going back with his fortune recovered, with brilliant prospects to spread before her, and could come into the house in his old playful manner, with the assumed deference of the master, and say: "Well, Edith dear, the storm is over. [4]
Toward night candles were burning round his coffin, a pall was spread over it, the floor was strewn with sprays of juniper, a printed band was tucked in under his shriveled head, and in a corner of the room sat a chanter reading the psalms. [2]
This done, I went out into the gallery, where Madame was already seated at her knitting, in the shade of the great tree that stood in the corner of the court and spread its branches over the eaves. [9]
The procession is well spread out and long; all its members carry lighted tapers, a good many of which are not lighted, having gone out in the wind. [4]
One day, as we were crossing a dike between rice swamps spread with delicate green, I saw the white tops of wagons flashing in the sun at the far end of it. [9]
In due time we spread our blankets in the warm sand between two large boulders and soon feel asleep, careless of the procession of ants that passed in through rents in our clothing and explored our persons. [5]
The day before we left Hannibal, a curious thing fell under my notice-- the surprising spread which longitudinal time undergoes there. [5]
Sure enough, when we got to the depot, we found a couch spread for the Captain, and both of us were passed on to New York with no visits, but those of civility, from the conductor. [6]
If in that way--" He stretched out his hand protestingly, the fingers spread in excitement. [11]
Straight at the waterfall the rustlers drove the burros, and straight through the middle, where the water spread into a fleecy, thin film like dissolving smoke. [13]
The 'Jumping Frog' was the first piece of writing of mine that spread itself through the newspapers and brought me into public notice. [5]
What a view was spread out below! [5]
What peace there was sitting once again under the rustling trees on the lawn with the green river and the blue bay spread out before us, and Scipio standing by with my grandfather's punch. [9]
By command, Sunday-school was privileged to spread over into the week. [5]
And when he was gone I felt queer, because there were all his etchings spread out on the floor. [5]
The other harbour was devoted to commerce, but, in order to prevent the spread of false reports, newly arrived ships were forbidden to enter. [10]
The air was very still, and a mantle of peace was spread over the tender scene. [11]
But at that very instant a cloud of smoke spread all round, firing was heard quite close at hand, and a voice of naive terror barely two steps from Prince Andrew shouted, "Brothers! [2]
Were they now using the bench to spread out the garments they had rinsed? [10]
Then he showed us the spread the Empire of China made on the map, and the room she took up in the world. [5]
The road wound upwards, by the valley of a brook, through the hills, now wooded, now spread with pastures that shone golden green in the evening light, the herds gathering at the gate-bars. [9]
He came down upon us sideways, his legs all in a tangle, and his right arm, bent and twisted, going round and round, as if in vain efforts to get into his pocket, his fingers spread out in impotent desire to clutch something. [4]
The time us up," he added emphatically, and he tapped the paper spread before him on the table. [11]
He had sat up till morning, had rested scarcely three hours, and now, with knitted brows, was comparing the results of his night's observation of the starry sky with certain astronomical tables which lay spread out before him. [10]
You must then untie the sack, and spread out before you my paints of all colors, my war-eagle feathers, my tufts of dried hair, and whatever else it contains. [5]
As is not unfrequent with versatile and inflammable people, he caught fire at the first spark of a new medical discovery, and no sooner got home to England than he began to spread the conflagration. [6]
By telling the truth he could astonish his father; his father would tell the neighbours; the neighbours would spread it; it would travel to all firesides; in the end it would make him President, and not only that, but First President. [5]
Was I in truth at a banquet or was I only dreaming that I sat as a guest at the richly spread board? [10]
On the short trip, the crests of the tossing waves sometimes shone with a flickering light, while elsewhere long shadows spread like dark sails over the sea. [10]
Presently he turned towards the East and stretched a robe upon the ground, and with stately beauty of gesture he spread out his hands, standing for a moment in the attitude of aspiration. [11]
As she ran towards him, with sudden impulse, his arms spread out and he caught her to his breast. [11]
We paid it, too, for we were purposely spread very far apart over the vast side of the Pyramid. [5]
With such a tongue as thine, lad, thou'lt spread the ivory thighs of many a willing maide in thy good time, an' thy cod-piece be as handy as thy speeche. [5]
Each drop tried to spread out and occupy as much space as possible, but others striving to do the same compressed it, sometimes destroyed it, and sometimes merged with it. [2]
Do you want to spread it all over? [5]
I was about to say, when diverted from my subject, that occasionally one finds sage-bushes five or six feet high, and with a spread of branch and foliage in proportion, but two or two and a half feet is the usual height. [5]
He invited her to rest on the couch on which was spread a bright giraffe's skin, but she preferred to walk up and down, for her heart was beating violently. [10]
The magician began to pull his wits together, and when he presently smiled an easy, nonchalant smile, it spread a mighty relief around; for it indicated that his mood was not destructive. [5]
Thus a library, to meet the need of our time, must take, and must spread out in a convenient form, a great array of periodicals. [3]
They were anxious to learn whether the rumour that Didymus's garden was to be taken for the twin statues had already spread abroad, and their first questions revealed that this was the case. [10]
He was thin to gauntness, ate ravenously of the food that was set before him, and throwing off his soaked moccasins, he spread his scalded feet to the blaze, and the steaming odor of drying leather filled the room. [9]
All we have to do is to spread the average over a wider territory or a longer period of time. [6]
When he came to dinner the next week and spread out his sketch on the living-room table Maude drew in her breath. [9]
In that seething time, the lighter literature took a sentimental tone, and either spread itself in manufactured fine writing, or lapsed into a reminiscent and melting mood. [4]
At that very time, at ten in the morning of the second of September, Napoleon was standing among his troops on the Poklonny Hill looking at the panorama spread out before him. [2]
The old man threw back his head, spread out the last page in the book which he had just written, and said defiantly, as though expecting contradiction to his self-deception--"I have learned. [11]
Neither did his thoughts spread themselves out and link themselves as I have displayed them. [6]
So believing, I thought the public mind will never rest till the power of Congress to restrict the spread of it shall again be acknowledged and exercised on the one hand or, on the other, all resistance be entirely crushed out. [7]
Night fell as though a blanket had been spread over the tree-tops, and above the dreary splashing men could be heard calling to one another in the darkness. [9]
G. P. "Dost thou spread the sail, throw the spear, swing the axe, lay thy hand upon the plough, attend the furnace door, shepherd the sheep upon the hills, gather corn from the field, or smite the rock in the quarry? [11]
Are we exaggerating this astonishing rise, development, and spread of the chrysanthemum? [4]
In St. Petersburg they used to say there was twenty or thirty thousand people in St. Louis, but I never believed it till I see that wonderful spread of lights at two o'clock that still night. [5]
Very likely; and they help to create and spread abroad the discontent they describe. [4]
As soon as they had passed the fence they all spread out evenly and quietly, without noise or talk, along the road and field leading to the Otradnoe covert. [2]
As it is, there's talk that we're scattering poisoned sweetmeats to spread the disease. [11]
He was lying there, sound asleep on the floor, with his old patch on his eye and his arms spread out. [5]
As Althea stood there, her delicate arms seemed to have lengthened and lost even their slight roundness, her figure to have become even more slender and incorporeal, and how strangely her thin fingers spread apart! [10]
When some of them--frequently six at a time--had settled on the perches in the trough, it was drawn into the but by a rope, a net was spread over the water and there was nothing more to do except take the captives out. [10]
Loud acclamations greeted them, yet tidings of the defeat at Actium spread with the swiftness of the wind. [10]
Citizens said that their largest spiders could not more than spread their legs over an ordinary saucer, and that they had always been considered honest. [5]
How great is their chance of infection, how easily they will carry it from ship to ship, and from the ships on to the shore, till the pestilence has spread from the harbor to the city! [10]
For a day the world stops to see it; the newspapers spread abroad a report of it, and the modest scholar feels that the eyes of mankind are fixed on him in expectation and desire. [4]
It spread over the width of East Street, growing larger every minute, until presently she was hemmed in. [9]
His understanding resembled the tent which the fairy Paribanou gave to Prince Ahmed: fold it, and it seemed a toy for the hand of a lady; spread it, and the armies of the powerful Sultans might repose beneath its shade. [5]
Sitting down by the table, he spread the letter out, and read it with great deliberation. [11]
In ten minutes the table was ready and a napkin spread on it. [2]
The darkness over the sun was withdrawn, and now the clear light began to spread itself abroad. [11]
The news of the strike spread everywhere in a sort of instantaneous way--spread like a flash to the very ends of the earth. [5]
He afterwards spread the story secretly among the friends of the family. [9]
Gabord looked at the soldiers, looked at the wife, at the priest, then spread out his legs and stuck his hands down into his pockets, while his horse rubbed its nose against his shoulder. [11]
Every rag about the ship is spread to the breeze and she is speeding over the sea like a bird. [5]
The contents of the sack were spread upon a long table, and officially inventoried, as follows: Portions of three human skulls. [5]

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