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  • I unspread my arms and returned them to my side to pull my cell phone out of my pants pocket.

    Cupcake Rachel Cohn 2007

  • I unspread my arms and returned them to my side to pull my cell phone out of my pants pocket.

    Cupcake Rachel Cohn 2007

  • The noon after his first venture he ate in a little lunch-room with Charley Moore and, watching him unspread the paper, waited for

    Flappers and Philosophers 2003

  • In less than an hour he left the rudder and furled his sails, whilst the sledge, carried forward by the great impetus the wind had given it, went on half a mile further with its sails unspread.

    Around the World in 80 Days 2003

  • I knocked, and a slovenly negress opened the door and revealed the sordid interior -- an unspread bed; a foul table, sickly with the smell of half-eaten food and unwashed dishes; the central figure a poor, helpless old man sitting on a stool, I asked the negress for her master: she answered rudely that she had no master, and would have slammed the door in my face.

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873 Various

  • The first of these new vistas to unspread itself before Missy's eyes was nothing less dazzling than Travel.

    Missy Dana Gatlin

  • The noon after his first venture he ate in a little lunch-room with Charley Moore and, watching him unspread the paper, waited for a remark about the hold-up of the day before.

    Flappers and Philosophers 1918

  • "I'll show them!" muttered Rosemary McClean, wiping the blown dust from her eyes and facing the wind again that now began to carry with it the unspread taint - the awful, sickening, soul-revolting smell inseparable from Hindoo funeral rites.

    Rung Ho Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1914

  • Meanwhile, (1) all mushrooms with pink gills, (2) all coral-like fungi, (3) all that grow on wood, and (4) all puffballs, are good to eat if they are young and tender -- only don't mistake an unspread Aminita for a puffball.

    Three Acres and Liberty Bolton Hall 1896

  • In less than an hour he left the rudder and furled his sails, whilst the sledge, carried forward by the great impetus the wind had given it, went on half a mile further with its sails unspread.

    Around the World in Eighty Days 1873

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