1 In addition to the Carpetbag gentry, substantial people from the North were moving into Atlanta, attracted by the never ceasing business activity of the town in this period of rebuilding and expansion.
2 At its utmost expansion in the full grown whale, the tail will considerably exceed twenty feet across.
3 Every step which she took toward relieving herself from obligations added to her strength and expansion as an individual.
4 The space interposed between myself and them partook of that expansion, and our marshes were any distance off.
5 The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, that is love.
Les Misérables (V4) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IV—A HEART BENEATH A STONE 6 Reserved people often really need the frank discussion of their sentiments and griefs more than the expansive.
7 He was not a man to whom the expression of admiration came easily: his long sallow face and distrustful eyes seemed always barricaded against the expansive emotions.
8 He suddenly felt vexed with himself for having, without reason, been so expansive before this gentleman.
9 Athos alone from time to time raised his expansive brow; a flash kindled in his eyes, and a bitter smile passed over his lips, then, like his comrades, he sank again into reverie.
10 Others, again, while this was in progress, lifted their eyes and swept the vast expanse of country commanded by their position, now lying nearly obliterated by shade.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country 11 He was a brown spot in the midst of an expanse of olive-green gorse, and nothing more.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 4: 2 He Is Set upon by Adversities but He Sings a Song 12 To an eye above them their two faces would have appeared amid the expanse like two pearls on a table of ebony.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 4: 3 She Goes Out to Battle against Depression 13 Rain was still falling heavily, the whole expanse of heath before him emitting a subdued hiss under the downpour.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 5: 8 Rain, Darkness, and Anxious Wanderers 14 Our wagonette had topped a rise and in front of us rose the huge expanse of the moor, mottled with gnarled and craggy cairns and tors.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 6. Baskerville Hall 15 The avenue opened into a broad expanse of turf, and the house lay before us.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 6. Baskerville Hall