far-stretching

Much superior to the passages respecting the Battle of the Gods are those which represent the divine nature as it really is -- pure and great and undefiled; for example, what is said of Poseidon in a passage fully treated by many before ourselves: -- Her far-stretching ridges, her forest-trees, quaked in dismay,/And her peaks, and the Trojans 'town, and the ships of Achaia's array,/Beneath his immortal feet, as onward Poseidon strode.

On the Sublime Hal Duncan 2010

Much superior to the passages respecting the Battle of the Gods are those which represent the divine nature as it really is -- pure and great and undefiled; for example, what is said of Poseidon in a passage fully treated by many before ourselves: -- Her far-stretching ridges, her forest-trees, quaked in dismay,/And her peaks, and the Trojans 'town, and the ships of Achaia's array,/Beneath his immortal feet, as onward Poseidon strode.

Archive 2010-03-01 Hal Duncan 2010

Even at that age I loved far-stretching views, sunlit spaces and stately trees; in a word, all nature charmed me and lifted up my soul to Heaven.

Flowers and Saint Thérèse of Lisieux 2009

The Dagora Forest: This far-stretching forest is where most elves are said to live and where the more benevolent Green Dragon rules.

LEGENDS OF THE DRAGONREALM Richard A. Knaak 2009

The Dagora Forest: This far-stretching forest is where most elves are said to live and where the more benevolent Green Dragon rules.

LEGENDS OF THE DRAGONREALM Richard A. Knaak 2009

The Dagora Forest: This far-stretching forest is where most elves are said to live and where the more benevolent Green Dragon rules.

LEGENDS OF THE DRAGONREALM Richard A. Knaak 2009

Thence they sailed on, past the Macrones and the far-stretching land of the Becheiri and the overweening Sapeires, and after them the Byzeres; for ever forward they clave their way, quickly borne by the gentle breeze.

The Argonautica 2008

To halt this influence - and hence decree your own terminolgy is "purer" or superior - is a proof of both a far-stretching hubris and of a complete lack of grasp on the normal evolution of languages.

languagehat.com: HIGH ICELANDIC. 2005

It had been produced by one of those far-stretching, world-moving commotions which now and then occur, sometimes twice or thrice in a generation, and, perhaps, not again for half a century, causing timid men to whisper in corners, and the brave and high-spirited to struggle with the struggling waves, so that when the storm subsides they may be found floating on the surface.

The Three Clerks 2004

She looked, and looked until the last glimmer of the red lamp on the receding sleeper disappeared in the maze of smoke and haze overhanging the tracks of the far-stretching yard.

Jennie Gerhardt 2004