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I was aware of a hungry out-reaching for her, as of a starving man for bread.
Chapter 18 2010
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She was conscious of a great and pardonable curiosity, of a frank out-reaching for fuller knowledge.
CHAPTER 9 2010
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The mighty mass of water fell in thunder on the beach, but beyond appeared a yellow head, one arm out-reaching, and a portion of a shoulder.
CHAPTER VI 2010
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His out-reaching glance was curious as he untied the bow in back to take it off.
Fox Fire Light Janet Dally 1982
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His out-reaching glance was curious as he untied the bow in back to take it off.
Fox Fire Light Janet Dally 1982
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Home Missions may be defined as the out-reaching of the Christian church in America to those peoples and places in our land beyond the immediate environs of the local church.
Home Missions in Action Edith H. Allen
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It was a surging intelligence of energy, abysmal, vaporous and limitless, transcending the dimensions, out-reaching boundless time, overshadowing matter.
The Whispering Spheres Russell Robert Winterbotham
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The moment that a life desires anything, be it health, wealth or love, it becomes related with that thing, and the thought establishes a line of direct transference; desire is the first out-reaching for the things which are necessary to fully develop our life.
Freedom Talks No. II Julia Seton
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Sensitive natures shrink before such an array of influences, and retire into themselves, drawing back and keeping in check all their out-reaching individuality.
Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays Timothy Titcomb
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The mighty mass of water fell in thunder on the beach, but beyond appeared a yellow head, one arm out-reaching, and a portion of a shoulder.
Chapter 6 1913
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