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- adverb In a way that
outspreads .
Etymologies
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outspreading + -ly
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Examples
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The mast-heads, like the tops of tall palms, were outspreadingly tufted with arms and legs.
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The mast-heads, like the tops of tall palms, were outspreadingly tufted with arms and legs.
Great Sea Stories Various 1897
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The mast-heads, like the tops of tall palms, were outspreadingly tufted with arms and legs.
Moby Dick, or, the whale Herman Melville 1855
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The mast-heads, like the tops of tall palms, were outspreadingly tufted with arms and legs.
Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855
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The mast-heads, like the tops of tall palms, were outspreadingly tufted with arms and legs.
mollusque commented on the word outspreadingly
The riggings lived. The mast-heads, like the tops of tall palms, were outspreadingly tufted with arms and legs. Clinging to a spar with one hand, some reached forth the other with impatient wavings; others, shading their eyes from the vivid sunlight, sat far out on the rocking yards; all the spars in full bearing of mortals, ready and ripe for their fate. Ah! how they still strove through that infinite blueness to seek out the thing that might destroy them!
--Herman Melville, 1851, Moby Dick
February 23, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word outspreadingly
DAMN, I gotta read this book. Thanks mollusque!
February 23, 2008
reesetee commented on the word outspreadingly
What?? You haven't read Moby-Dick yet, c_b? Oh, you must! I'll be interested in hearing what you think of it. :-)
Great excerpt, mollusque.
February 23, 2008