Outstretched

As I stood upon the bluff before my cottage on that clear cold night in the early part of March, 1886, the noble Hudson flowing like the grey and silent spectre of a dead river below me, I felt again the strange, compelling influence of the mighty god of war, my beloved Mars, which for ten long and lonesome years I had implored with outstretched arms to carry me back to my lost love.

Never hesitate to accept the outstretched hand of another.

Here I would lie outstretched on the mossy ground, thinking strange thoughts and dreaming of strange dreams.

Here I would lie outstretched on the mossy ground, thinking strange thoughts and dreaming strange dreams.

He came into a spacious outer court, and what he saw was enough to freeze him with horror. A frightful silence reigned over all; the image of death was everywhere, and there was nothing to be seen but what seemed to be the outstretched bodies of dead men and animals.

And now the heaven rolled round. From ocean rushed / the Night, and wrapt in shadow earth and air / and Myrmidonian wiles. In silence hushed, / the Trojans through the city here and there, / outstretched in sleep, their weary limbs repair.

Tom shook the outstretched hand.

In a wooden box in a drawer she kept a faded colour photograph of her father sitting in his rowing boat, leaning forwards with his arms outstretched, his hands gripping the oars.

Ziri froze with an outstretched hand.

The tree's branches reached for the sky like outstretched arms.