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Far-stretched   Listen
adjective
Far-stretched  adj.  Stretched beyond ordinary limits.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Far-stretched" Quotes from Famous Books



... admitting his description false, but he told me drily that 'I had better see the thing for myself.' An hour's journey found me on the Essex flats. There was a bright sky and a brisk wind, but nothing could disguise the featureless monotony of the far-stretched landscape. The train put me down at a roadside station where a dogcart waited my arrival. I drove through a small village of mean, red-brick houses, and soon found myself in the open country. My driver made but one remark during ...
— The Quest of the Simple Life • William J. Dawson

... from Raleigh's History of the World: 'O Eloquent, Just, and Mighty Death! Whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom all the World hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the World and despised: thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched Greatness, all the Pride, Cruelty, and Ambition of Man, and covered it all over with these two ...
— Lyra Heroica - A Book of Verse for Boys • Various



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