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Outstretched in sentence

58 examples of Outstretched in a sentence

Mrs. Samsa and Grete bent down over their letters as if intent on continuing with what they were writing; Mr. Samsa saw that the cleaner wanted to start describing everything in detail but, with outstretched hand, he made it quite clear that she was not to.
His long skinny neck was outstretched like a horse's, and he made a loud supping noise with his lips.
When the Frenchmen had all arranged themselves just out of cannon-shot we saw a small group of horsemen, all in a blaze with silver and scarlet and gold, ride swiftly between the divisions, and as they went a roar of cheering burst out from either side of them, and we could see arms outstretched to them and hands waving.
So having tuned the harp, Altisidora, running her hand across the strings, began this ballad:O thou that art above in bed,Between the holland sheets,A-lying there from night till morn,With outstretched legs asleep;O thou, most valiant knight of allThe famed Manchegan breed,Of purity and virtue moreThan gold of Araby;Give ear unto a suffering maid,Well-grown but evil-starr'd,For those two suns of thine have litA fire within her heart.
There he was, sitting with a newly opened envelope in one hand and five dried orange pips in the outstretched palm of the other one.
"Oh, sir, you are the very man whom I have longed to meet," cried the little fellow with outstretched hands and quivering fingers.
With a letter in her outstretched hand, and countenance gaily smiling, from the persuasion of bringing comfort, she entered their room, saying, "Now, my dear, I bring you something that I am sure will do you good."
It ended in his making her take his arm, and then they stood and rocked together with the motion of the train, Tarvin steadying their position with outstretched legs, while they gazed up at the monster spires and sovereign hills of stone wavering and dizzying over their heads.
The lounging escort at the door was suddenly scattered by a trooper from without, who flung his horse desperately through their ranks, shouting, "A letter for Tarvin Sahib!"Tarvin stepped into the veranda, took a crumpled half-sheet of paper from the outstretched hand, and read these words, traced painfully and laboriously in an unformed round hand:DEAR MR.
The Sound stretched away to Elsinore, dotted with a few white sails, like sea-gulls' wings; and in the misty east and away to the north-east lay outstretched the faintly-shadowed shores of Sweden.
On our arrival the master came with outstretched hands, and without more ceremony he beckoned us to follow him.
But, no; I saw him, with arms outstretched and legs straddling wide apart, erect before a granite rock that stood in the centre of the crater, just like a pedestal made ready to receive a statue of Pluto.
On the mast already I see the light play of a lambent St. Elmo's fire; the outstretched sail catches not a breath of wind, and hangs like a sheet of lead.
"He hath since come to England, unexpected by his brethren," said Ben Israel; "and he cometh among them with a strong and outstretched arm to correct and to punish.
He patted her a little, and she curled herself up at his feet with her head on her outstretched hind paw.
'No, I am quite well,' she said, rising and firmly pressing his outstretched hand.
After a moment given to thought - both pitiful and laughable - with arms outstretched, he approached his partner and confided to him:'Shall I tell you what? . . .
Divided into two camps at either end of the playground, they charged each other, seeking to upset the enemy by the force of the shock, and the cavaliers using scarves as lassos or their outstretched arms as spears, tried to unhorse their opponents.
This time the father lifted his daughter on high, jumped her up on his outstretched arms, and looked at her with a kind of smile.
I fell, but not on to the ground: an outstretched arm caught me.
With his arm outstretched, his hand wide open, hewanted to hit, to bruise, to smash, to strangle!
Then came a great silence; all necks remained outstretched, all mouths remained open, all glances were directed towards the marble table.
Nevertheless, in that throng, upon which the four allegories vied with each other in pouring out floods of metaphors, there was no ear more attentive, no heart that palpitated more, not an eye was more haggard, no neck more outstretched, than the eye, the ear, the neck, and the heart of the author, of the poet, of that brave Pierre Gringoire, who had not been able to resist, a moment before, the joy of telling his name to two pretty girls.
Then, said the women of the neighborhood, the whole church took on something fantastic, supernatural, horrible; eyes and mouths were opened, here and there; one heard the dogs, the monsters, and the gargoyles of stone, which keep watch night and day, with outstretched neck and open jaws, around the monstrous cathedral, barking.
In the place of the gypsy, on the carpet, whose arabesques had seemed to vanish but a moment previously by the capricious figures of her dance, the archdeacon no longer beheld any one but the red and yellow man, who, in order to earn a few testers in his turn, was walking round the circle, with his elbows on his hips, his head thrown back, his face red, his neck outstretched, with a chair between his teeth.
He beheld her outstretched upon the poniarded captain, her eyes closed, her beautiful bare throat covered with Phoebus's blood, at that moment of bliss when the archdeacon had imprinted on her pale lips that kiss whose burn the unhappy girl, though half dead, had felt.
Eyes turned upward seemed to see some one far above, there on high, and outstretched hands seemed to implore him to descend.
Chilo continued to stand with outstretched, trembling arm, and with finger pointed at Nero.
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