reachings

United States and Russia are completing negotiations on the farthest-reachings arms control treaty in nearly two decades.

2010 State of the Union Address 2010

Give me fever dreams followed by sweaty chills with furtive reachings for the wedding present mixing bowl slash throw-up bowl.

Waldo Jaquith - Me and my flu at 4:30 AM. 2006

It has done it: for, with violent reachings, having taken enough to make me sick, and not enough water to carry it off, I presently looked as if I had kept my bed a fortnight.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

Then there would be churning froths, and blood swirling up, and reachings out, graspings with nothing to grasp, and then we would see bodies drawn under the water.

Renegades Of Gor Norman, John 1986

_ What invocations of the saints, what heart-groping, what reachings after the better parts of women!

Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso Maurice Henry Hewlett

Her two aunts, that she had always lived with, had been everything to her -- they had indulged her, had made her pretty frocks, had never tried, in any way, to block the reachings of her personality.

The Island of Faith 1937

All these reachings out in new directions, deceive the unwary.

Free Masonry of Empire 1930

It is easier to understand what he meant if one thinks how definitely Hardy belongs to his age, the latter nineteenth century, in spite of his reachings forward.

Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism Henry Seidel Canby 1919

All these conjectures and confidences and reachings through the shadows are just a testimony that few are content to go on without some form of religion or other.

Modern Religious Cults and Movements Gaius Glenn Atkins 1912

We passed away from London in the end, got out beyond the last tentative reachings of the speculative builder, into country lane-ways.

Gossamer 1915 George A. Birmingham 1907