Astretch

A thing half dead, with weary arms astretch / For anything to cling to

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My second mate was standing […] with his short, thick legs astretch, for the gale had left a considerable swell behind it,

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1912, Saki (H. H. Munro), “The Music on the Hill” in The Chronicles of Clovis, London: John Lane, p. 153, Astretch in a pool of mud was an enormous sow,

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This time I heard something new in the beat of the drums, a trip-hammer knock that sent my heart racing, a stutter that made me choke and grin, that set my heels tapping, my toes astretch.

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