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Sentences starting with stretch

Stretch out, my nag; we've a long road to travel to-night. [11]

Sentences ending with stretch

I said-- 'Every trip, down and up, the leadsmen are singing through that tangled place for three-quarters of an hour on a stretch. [5]
He continued, still to himself, "I must change my plan again; I can't seem to strike one that will stand the requirements of this most variegated emergency five minutes on a stretch. [5]
For that was their only free ten-hour stretch. [5]
The grand interest, the supreme interest, came instantly to the front again; nothing could keep it in the background many minutes on a stretch. [5]
During many days the captain did not sleep at all --twenty-one, I think, on one stretch. [5]
If one of the boats has a 'lightning' pilot, whose 'partner' is a trifle his inferior, you can tell which one is on watch by noting whether that boat has gained ground or lost some during each four-hour stretch. [5]
And it is now, over most of its stretch. [5]
As like as not, Sandy was loaded for a three-day stretch. [5]
The tough little Morgans of that time, which kept their feet like cats, have all but disappeared, but there were places on that road where Lyman Hull put the shoes under his wheels for four miles at a stretch. [9]
That is a long time to sit in one place, whether one be conspicuous or not, yet some of Wagner's operas bang along for six whole hours on a stretch! [5]

Sentences containing stretch two or more times

Scenery as always: stretch upon stretch of almost unbroken forest, on both sides of the river; soundless solitude. [5]
It's a stretch of men in one line,--a stretch of anything in a line. [4]
Therefore, if we chance to discover that from Dan to Beersheba seemed a mighty stretch of country to the Israelites, let us not be airy with them, but reflect that it was and is a mighty stretch when one can not traverse it by rail. [5]

More example sentences with the word stretch in them

You shall stretch your arm over Egypt and it will rise to you. [11]
Now, I tell you what, my gentle spy, if your business hath not concern, I'll stretch you by your fingers there to our public gallows, and my fellows shall fill you with small shot as full as a pod of peas. [11]
To reach Glencoe you spent two dirty hours on that railroad which (it was fondly hoped) would one day stretch to the Pacific Ocean. [9]
From its summit you look south into a vast wilderness basin, a great stretch of forest little trodden, and out of whose bosom you can hear from the heights on a still day the loud murmur of the Boquet. [4]
With us what you call time is a spacious thing; it takes a long stretch of it to grow an angel to full age. [5]
No one can write perfect English and keep it up through a stretch of ten chapters. [5]
After which, he would go forth in his rags and beg a few farthings, eat his poor crust, take his customary cuffs and abuse, and then stretch himself upon his handful of foul straw, and resume his empty grandeurs in his dreams. [5]
The men-folks, having worked in the regular hours, lie down and rest, stretch themselves idly in the shade at noon, or lounge about after supper. [4]
Moreover, a magistrate won't be able to force a man to work for a master a whole year on a stretch whether the man wants to or not. [5]
I was driving with a friend, the other day, through a somewhat dreary stretch of country, where there seemed to be very little to attract notice or deserve remark. [6]
It covers a wide stretch of time--I don't know how many years--and in the course of it the chief actress is reincarnated several times: four times she is a more or less young woman, and once she is a lad. [5]
It is a wide stretch of cheap little brick houses, with here and there a noble architectural pile lifting itself out of the midst-government buildings, these. [5]
But as we went back to the camp again he told me how the French had tried once to conquer this vast country and failed, leaving to the Spaniards the endless stretch beyond the Mississippi called Louisiana, and this part to the English. [9]
In the morning we had a stretch of "scrub" country--the kind of thing which is so useful to the Australian novelist. [5]
Old Mr Garland was the first to stretch out his hand, and inquire how he felt. [12]
One sweltering afternoon--it was the first day of July, 1830--he was at work over a set of tangled account books in his workroom, which looked westward over a stretch of vacant lots, when a conversation outside disturbed him. [5]
At times he was drunk for forty hours at a stretch, when he would shut himself in his cabin and leave his ship to the care of Cockle, who navigated with the sober portion of the crew. [9]
Every town and village along that vast stretch of double river-frontage had a best dwelling, finest dwelling, mansion,--the home of its wealthiest and most conspicuous citizen. [5]
Presently, as the Victoire came nearer to the coast, he could see a bay and a great rock in the distance, and, as they bore in now, the rock seemed to stretch out like a vast wall into the gulf. [11]
India is one vast farm--one almost interminable stretch of fields with mud fences between. [5]
The goldenrod holds up its plumes In the long stretch of meadow grass, The briarrose shakes its sweet perfumes, In coverts where the sparrows pass. [11]
Those woods stretch unbroken over a vast region; and everywhere they are such dense woods, and so still, and so piney and fragrant. [5]
A stretch of two hundred yards of the high front wall was heavily draped with ivy, and out of the mass of buildings within rose three picturesque old towers. [5]
Here I deployed to the right again, and presently entered an inviting stretch of meadowland which was unoccupied save by a couple of deserted huts toward the furthest extremity. [5]
Now he began to shave, digging his fingers into my countenance to stretch the skin and bundling and tumbling my head this way and that as convenience in shaving demanded. [5]
It is easy to perceive that Cambyses, once lord of Egypt, will stretch out his rapacious hand over your beautiful Hellas and its islands. [10]
From Baton Rouge to New Orleans, the great sugar plantations border both sides of the river all the way, and stretch their league-wide levels back to the dim forest-walls of bearded cypress in the rear. [5]
From time to time, Hodder himself was uncomfortably aware of her presence, and he read in her upturned face an interest which, by a little stretch of the imagination, might have been deemed personal . [9]
With some such thoughts as these Hilary Vane turned into the last straight stretch of the avenue that led to Fairview House, with its red and white awnings gleaming in the morning sun. [9]
It was another thirteen-hour stretch (including an hour's "nooning. [5]
Now and then they applauded him a couple of minutes on a stretch, and during that time he could stop speaking and rest his voice without having the floor taken from him. [5]
In combined length these three stones stretch nearly two hundred feet; they are thirteen feet square; two of them are sixty-four feet long each, and the third is sixty-nine. [5]
Is it unreasonable, then, to expect that some man possessed of the loftiest genius, coupled with ambition sufficient to push it to its utmost stretch, will at some time spring up among us? [7]
It indicates that the stretch of time covered by the piece is seventy years or more. [5]
Philip was on the stretch of hope and excitement. [5]
The ground between the street and the brick wall in the rear was a great stretch, as ample in acreage as many a small country-place we have in these times. [9]
She hastened down the platform still with keen eyes scanning the passengers, who were mostly alighting to stretch their legs and get a breath of air. [11]
The spot where the landing was made was the only one in that stretch where footing could have been found on the shore; everywhere else precipices came sheer down into forty fathoms of water. [5]
Why not end the business in a day--not stretch it over these long mid-summer weeks? [11]
Also, in all that stretch this was the only spot where anybody lived. [5]
I read her that poem of Moody's--you know it:-- 'Here, where the moors stretch free In the high blue afternoon, Are the marching sun and the talking sea. [9]
One stretch of that platform, two hundred feet long, is composed of blocks of stone as large, and some of them larger, than a street-car. [5]
With a simple sweep it carries me back over a stretch of time measurable only in astronomical terms and geological periods. [5]
This year our summer is 6 months long and ends with November and the flight home to New York, but next year we hope and expect to stretch it another month and end it the first of December. [5]
Yes, and the subsequent watches were much like it, during a stretch of months. [5]
I see him stretching up the hill, part of him occupied by a flight of stone steps; and I can locate Stephen to an inch when he comes into my mind, for he just filled the stretch which went by the summer-house. [5]
Theories, at a stretch, might be identified with 'over-beliefs' but when it comes to confusing our theories with facts, instead of recognizing them as theories, when it comes to living by 'over-beliefs' that have no basis in reason and observed facts,--that is fatal. [9]
Time seemed to stretch to hours before they saw the man returning with something in his arm. [11]
Beyond the platform stretch the two wings, one of which is itself a mosque of great architectural merit. [5]
Thereafter, during a stretch of two exhausting hours, he was busy saving Goodson's life. [5]
Coming to a stretch of rocky ground, he took advantage of it to cross the trail and then continued down on the right. [13]
And all this stretch of river is a mirror, and you have the shadowy reflections of the leafage and the curving shores and the receding capes pictured in it. [5]
There was a stretch of level valley with silent farm houses, the occupants all at rest, without trouble, without anxiety. [5]
And the vast stretch of country from that place westward to the Father of Waters was now American. [9]
The two hundred-mile stretch from Cairo northward to St. Louis is by no means so crooked, that being a rocky country which the river cannot cut much. [5]
It's a long stretch between that first birthday speech and this one. [5]
But main roads stretch a long, long way. [12]
Everywhere in the streets the machines of justice were visible-pillories for the neck and hands, stocks for the feet, and chains to stretch across, in case of need, and stop a mob. [4]
At the Forty-second Street station they stopped a minute on the bridge that crosses the track to the branch road for the Central Depot, and looked up and down the long stretch of the Elevated to north and south. [8]
I took to spending more and more of my time at the county-seat, where I remained for days at a stretch, inventing business when there was none. [9]
Must those who soar be condemned to eternal loneliness, and was it a longing they did not comprehend which bade them stretch their wings toward the sun? [9]
They had to sit up; there was not room enough to stretch out. [5]
Whenever she chooses, she can stretch her long arm around the world's fat belly and flirt a Reader out of his pulpit, though he be tucked away in seeming safety and obscurity in a lost village in the middle of China: "In any Church. [5]
Now then, you see what a handsome, spacious, light, airy, homelike place it was, wherein to walk up and down, or sit and write, or stretch out and read and smoke. [5]
But presently this sea upon dry ground was to lose its "rolling" character and stretch away for seven hundred miles as level as a floor! [5]
Miss Watson would say, "Don't put your feet up there, Huckleberry;" and "Don't scrunch up like that, Huckleberry--set up straight;" and pretty soon she would say, "Don't gap and stretch like that, Huckleberry--why don't you try to behave? [5]
If you know Russia, you know that this was a wild stretch of hospitality. [5]
When he saw Rullecour and the Governor appear, he chuckled to himself, and said, in Jersey patois: "I vaut mux alouonyi l'bras que l'co," which is to say: It is better to stretch the arm than the neck. [11]
I do not remember that this was really a break; indeed it seems to me that it was nothing but a watering depot in the midst of the stretch of sixty-eight miles. [5]
The company commanders ran off to their companies, the sergeants major began bustling (the greatcoats were not in very good condition), and instantly the squares that had up to then been in regular order and silent began to sway and stretch and hum with voices. [2]
She chanced to prefer the same one for which she saw me stretch out my hands. [10]
They were messengers, postmen and carriers across the wide stretch of country from Spilsby, even down to the river Witham, and from Boston Deep down to Market Deeping and over to the sea. [11]
The plain is perfectly level, and seems to stretch away and away and away, dimming and softening, to the uttermost bounds of nowhere. [5]
There are hundreds of these, and their dates stretch back through many centuries. [5]
On the morning of the third day Charley Steele's face, for the first time, wore an expression which, by a stretch of imagination, might be called anxious. [11]
At each turn of the stream I expected to see the end, and at each turn I saw a long, narrow stretch of rocks and foaming water. [4]
A green stretch of lawn made a vista through the woods. [9]
It pushes ahead of its masses of boulders which are packed together, and they stretch across the gorge, right in front of it, like a long grave or a long, sharp roof. [5]
On either side of it, on the elevated bank of the river, stretch beautiful grounds, with green lawns, fine trees, and well-kept walks. [4]
Still another part of it was a long stretch of low grape-vines, which were tanglesome and troublesome, and which we took to be brambles. [5]
Two vast bodies of furious foes confronted each other like wrestlers, who stretch their sinewy arms to grasp and hurl their opponents to the ground. [10]
In the midst of a stretch of waving grass was a table, and a young man of six-and-twenty sat there alone. [9]
You would have noticed that, if there hadn't been a considerable stretch of time and an exciting quarrel inserted between the two readings. [5]
A stretch of nearly half a century lay between his first ascent and his last one. [5]
She came to my dead aunt's, and there--But I won't excite myself uselessly--in short, the man whom she loved with all the strength of her heart thrust her into misery, and my father cursed and would not stretch out a finger to aid her. [10]
One had this modified noonday not only in Canal and some neighboring chief streets, but all along a stretch of five miles of river frontage. [5]
Corpse said never mind, shake him up some kind of a box he could stretch out in comfortable, he warn't particular 'bout the general style of it. [5]
You don't remember me, but you were introduced to me in the arcade in Milan two years and a half ago by Lieutenant H." What had put that story into my head after all that stretch of time? [5]
Would the Constitution, made to meet the needs of the little confederacy of the seaboard, stretch over a Continent and an Empire? [9]
Now with my love to you and Sheila I stretch out my hand to you. [11]
We sat silently looking out over the dreary stretch of roofs and down into a dingy court of Bernard's Inn below, when suddenly there arose a commotion on the stairs, as of a man mounting hastily. [9]
Canst thou truly look beyond even so vast a stretch of time as--" "Seven hundred years? [5]
Hour after hour like that, with ten minutes' rest now and then at a spring or to stretch our legs. [11]
He watched Eglington light a cigar and stretch out his hands to the wood fire with an air of comfort. [11]
And how much lies between--one long lovely stretch of scented fields, and meadows, and shady woodlands, and suddenly Sahara! [5]
The widder wouldn't let me smoke; she wouldn't let me yell, she wouldn't let me gape, nor stretch, nor scratch, before folks--" [Then with a spasm of special irritation and injury]--"And dad fetch it, she prayed all the time! [5]
They saw him lean forwards and his hands stretch out with a fierce gesture. [11]
All that they knew was, that after what seemed a mighty stretch of time, both awoke out of a dead stupor of sleep and resumed their miseries once more. [5]
I suppose there is not really so much difference in people's feelings, whether they live in Bangor or Omaha, but one's nerves can't be expected to stretch across the continent. [6]
You know there is no other typesetting machine that can run two hours on a stretch without causing trouble and delay with its incurable caprices. [5]

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