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But the old feeling of trespass was wholly absent. She had no fear of being cast forth from this place that she was about to enter. The path began to widen somewhat and to ascend. In a few moments they came upon a crumbling stonewall crossing it at right angles. Monck paused. "One way leads to the palace, the other to the temple," he said. "Which shall we take?" Stella faced him in the moonlight.
As I took my parting glance the cathedral had a gleam of golden sunshine in its far depths, and it seemed to widen and deepen itself, as if to convince me of my error in saying, yesterday, that it is not very large. I wonder how I could say it.
If Clint was in the wrong I'd kill Greevy jest the same, for Greevy robbed him of all the years that was before him only a sapling he was, an' all his growin' to do, all his branches to widen an' his roots to spread. But that don't enter in it, his bein' in the wrong. It was a quarrel, and Clint never did Greevy any harm.
With a fast-beating heart Georgiana stood staring out of the open porthole at the scene of activity outside. Far below her she could see the gangway over which she had come on board. In less than an hour the party had arrived early that gangway would be withdrawn, the water would slowly widen between pier and ship, and there would be no turning back.
There is room in colleges and common rooms for both sorts of discontent the ignoble, which is the child of vanity and weakness; and the noble, which is the unassuaged thirst for perfection. The present result of the last forty years in Oxford is a discontent which is constantly trying to improve the working, and to widen the intellectual influence, of the University.
The prairie was covered with a dense mat of dry grass which rustled in the wind but furnished no feed for our stock. It was a splendid fall for plowing, and I began to feel hope return to me as I followed my plow around and around the lands I laid off, and watched the black ribbon of new plowing widen and widen as the day advanced toward night. Nothing is so good a soil for hope as new plowing.
Widen it did, but very gradually the stream curving away from it all the while; and by and by I halted again, in two minds whether to break straight across for it or continue this slow process of making sure. I had now reached a point where the tall cliff on the opposite shore either ended abruptly or took a sharp turn back from the stream.
Such interests outside their regular occupations broaden their outlook and widen their knowledge. Some hobbies tend to lead to specialization, and the specialist is apt to become warped and narrowed; not so, however, the collector of household curios. No Place Like Home. It would be difficult to find greater delight than that which centres in those things that concern the home and home life.
Oh! yes, there are dozens of other things I've learned that are bound to widen the horizon of any boy. It was a fortunate day for me when you coaxed my mother to let me join the Boy Scouts. Nobody else could have done it but you, Thad." Smithy was growing more and more excited; and Thad thought best to end that sort of talk.
Crevasses, caused by strains from variations in the rate of motion of different parts of the glacier and convexities in the channel, are mere cracks when they first open, so narrow as hardly to admit the blade of a pocket-knife, and gradually widen according to the extent of the strain and the depth of the glacier.
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