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It is not astretch to claim that the terrorists are human.

Think Progress » Breaking: Bush To Unveil “National Strategy for Victory in Iraq” Tommorow 2005

While your reporting is generally right on with the minutia that makes some deals impossible, I think this one is astretch when you start predicting what may or may not happen when you try this program.

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“It is not astretch to claim that the terrorists are human.”

Think Progress » Breaking: Bush To Unveil “National Strategy for Victory in Iraq” Tommorow 2005

Before the seat of the young earl, who was Inewl's nephew, there was set up a post, and on it was the figure of a gyr-falcon, of pure gold, and marvellously wrought, with wings outspread and talons astretch, as if it were about to strike its prey.

King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls Henry Gilbert

I imagine him, then, tiptoeing to the door of the library and bending to listen, every nerve astretch.

The Ashiel mystery A Detective Story Charles Bryce

As he stared off over the dim whiteness of the bars, his senses astretch for a repetition of that weird call, there was a faint splashing in the water close to the sloop.

The Black Buccaneer 1934

The mare had been kept astretch all night, and her heart was breaking under the strain.

The Boy With the U. S. Foresters Francis Rolt-Wheeler 1918

There was a half-hour of anecdotes of the Governor of Momba and his son before Cunningham's name was even mentioned; and when the question of him was slipped, so casually was it slipped that I, with senses astretch, did not realize that this must be the sick man at Momba -- not until the next question was put.

Wide Courses 1912

Nothing is impossible to faith, and faith in God and man will be kept astretch in the discipline that will be demanded of us all, in the breaking down of false barriers that have grown up through the years and the destruction of long-lived prejudices that will die hard.

The War and Unity Being Lectures Delivered At The Local Lectures Summer Meeting Of The University Of Cambridge, 1918 1911

Owing to the rattling of the ramshackle cab -- it lacked rubber tyres -- Fandor, though listening with ears astretch, could not hear one word distinctly.

Messengers of Evil Being a Further Account of the Lures and Devices of Fantômas Pierre Souvestre 1894