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  • He suggested that Ararat must represent a primordial island, from which all created species had dispersed: “If we therefore enquire into the original appearance of the earth, we shall find reason to conclude, that instead of the present wide-extended regions, one small island only was in the beginning raised above the surface of the waters.”

    The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

  • He suggested that Ararat must represent a primordial island, from which all created species had dispersed: “If we therefore enquire into the original appearance of the earth, we shall find reason to conclude, that instead of the present wide-extended regions, one small island only was in the beginning raised above the surface of the waters.”

    The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

  • He will embrace a pure system, from its abstract truth, its beauty, its simplicity, and its promise of wide-extended benefit; unless custom has turned poison into food, he will hate the brutal pleasures of the chase by instinct; it will be a contemplation full of horror, and disappointment to his mind, that beings capable of the gentlest and most admirable sympathies should take delight in the death-pangs and last convulsions of dying animals.

    The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley 2003

  • At the same time, he assured them that he had “no lust after power, but I wish with as much fervency as any man upon this wide-extended continent for an opportunity of turning the sword into the ploughshare.”

    Angel in the Whirlwind Benson Bobrick 1997

  • At the same time, he assured them that he had “no lust after power, but I wish with as much fervency as any man upon this wide-extended continent for an opportunity of turning the sword into the ploughshare.”

    Angel in the Whirlwind Benson Bobrick 1997

  • Breathless messengers had borne the evil tidings to Montcalm, and far and near his wide-extended camp resounded with the rolling of alarm-drums and the din of startled preparation.

    The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book Ontario. Ministry of Education

  • Breathless messengers had borne the evil tidings to Montcalm, and far and near his wide-extended camp resounded with the rolling of alarm drums and the din of startled preparation.

    Elson Grammar School Literature v4 William H. Elson

  • From this entrance, a road, some five or six feet wide had been cut out into the middle of the thicket, which was a large open area covered with grass and shaded by bushy trees, of small altitude, with wide-extended branches.

    Eveline Mandeville The Horse Thief Rival Alvin Addison

  • Thou knowest thy body to be a small part of that wide-extended earth which thou everywhere beholdest; the moisture contained in it, thou also knowest to be a small portion of that mighty mass of waters whereof seas themselves are but a part, while the rest of the elements contribute, out of their abundance, to thy formation.

    Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life

  • As the nauseous odors of a slaughterhouse, carried on the breeze, pollute the air in every direction, so the evil influences emanating from these wide-extended battlefields taint the atmosphere of the whole political world.

    New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 April-September, 1915 Various

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