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  • And very interesting too - you sure do have a wide-spanned musical palate!

    Finally; that music meme! Niki 2005

  • The quadripartite vault is supported on lofty wide-spanned arches.

    The South of France—East Half C. B. Black

  • The perfect peace of the warm June night, the yellow moonlight on the quiet water, the wide-spanned bridge, the long straggling street of irregular gabled houses so kindly and so sheltering with their overhanging eaves, the dear familiar charm of it all seemed to grip Reggie by the throat and caused an unwonted smarting in his eyes.

    The Ffolliots of Redmarley 1898

  • That wide-spanned arch, wondering how it was raised,

    AT FURNESS ABBEY 1888

  • Is the half-fluid resin unsuitable for the wide-spanned roofs which would have to be constructed when the diameter of the helical passage exceeded certain limits?

    Bramble-Bees and Others Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

  • At that moment they came beyond the thick embowering shrubs, while full before them was the dark receding cloud, on which the sunbeams were painting a wide-spanned rainbow.

    The Heir of Redclyffe Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

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