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• They were wide; they closed. (10)
• Parting strips are made ⅜ inch wide. (17)
• The farmer threw the door wide open. (22)
• They came to a wide, desolate street. (12)
• But our poor couple are staring wide awake. (10)
• They who in her lead confide, Wither me if they spread not wide! (10)
• Intermediate rails are often made 2½ inches wide. (17)
• The eyes of heaven are wide enough to see us both. (10)
• If she threw the door open wide he would not go in now! (8)
• In his wide arms he embraces the whole form of beauty. (10)
• In a wide, luminous curve, the Oise lay under the hillside. (2)
• The street now ended in a wide road formed of little low houses. (8)
• At so civilized piece of savagery, Adrian opened his mouth wide. (10)
• The only visible wound was a wide, ragged opening in the abdomen. (1)
• She led him to the far end, and they sat down on a wide window-seat. (8)
• It was as wide and straight as a city street, yet it seemed untraveled. (1)
• They had always been her comforters, those wide, shallow, cosey stairs. (8)
• With a deep sigh, he moved down the wide, grey steps into the sunlight. (8)
• Dangling an end of hair, she regarded Christian with her wide blue eyes. (8)
• Her eyes were wide, her whole face, neck, and fingers, white as marble. (10)
• The eyes were wide open; the stare was not an agreeable thing to encounter. (1)
• We struck at last into a wide white high-road carpeted with noiseless dust. (2)
• Her eyes were like the grave that is wide For the corpse from head to heel. (10)
• It opens upon a spacious landing, to which a wide staircase ascends at one side. (9)
• From 30 to 36 feet high were the walls on the other side of a ditch 80 feet wide. (19)
• And round their enormous great wide table, too, which fills up the room so dreadfully! (4)
• Softly, stumbling, clinging together, they went down to the last turn of the wide stairs. (8)
• The base of such a retaining wall should be at least as wide as ⁴/₁₀ the height of wall. (17)
• Cut out a joist 4 inches wide, half inch deep, and nail on firmly one of the inch strips. (17)
• Across the wide, squat window the apple branches fell in black stripes which never stirred. (8)
• James Greydon led them down the wide avenue of hemlocks, bowing and smiling to the natives. (18)
• Her face was well-coloured, her mouth, firm and rather wide, her nose well-shaped, her hair dark. (8)
• The dawn had now traversed the length of the streets, and thrown open the wide spaces of the city. (10)
• From her tall precipice and terraced gardens she looks far and wide on the sea and broad champaigns. (2)
• The curve of her brows broke like a beaten wave; the lips and nostrils were wide, tragic in repose. (10)
• There for a few moments he stood gazing at the school chapel, the cricket-field, the wide land beyond. (8)
• The earth was covered with a thick growth of crimson grass, and at wide intervals were groups of trees. (7)
• They are usually made of ¾-inch material, and the lower rail, stiles, and top rail made 1¾ inches wide. (17)
• Fulkerson came and stood with his little feet wide apart, and bent his little lean, square face on March. (9)
• But the only visible effect was the substitution of wide, low-lying sheets of smoke for their bulk of fog. (1)
• He wore a wide blue cloak, with a grace which hovered between that of an Italian poet and an early pirate. (2)
• In these circumstances Charles Ventnor had come to the meeting with eyes wide open and mouth tight closed. (8)
• She rose from her unfinished meal, and walked out into the wide air, feeling as if she walked on thunder. (10)
• His hand was raised as toward where Rhoda stood, but he sent no look with it; the direction was wide of her. (10)
• Clad in pyjamas with a very wide blue stripe, grey-eyed, grey-moustached, slim and erect, he paused at the door. (8)
• Like most parsons, he had a wide acquaintance with the sick and dying; and one remorseless fellowship with death. (8)
• In this eye, when it was wide open, he saw that more than mortal look which had hitherto been but dim in his mind. (12)
• Keen at her Mistress glanced Iambe: rays From the Great Mother came: Her lips were opened wide; the curse was rent. (10)
• He is a broad-faced, middle-aged man, with a wide, thin, flexible mouth, and little holes under his high cheek-bones. (8)
• She lay with both arms thrown up beneath her head on the pillow, her eyelids wide open, and her visage set and stern. (10)
• The vice-consul was of a tradition almost as simple, and his longer experience set no very wide interval between them. (9)
• The general so far laid aside the dignity appropriate to a Confederate officer of high rank and wide renown as to smile. (1)
• The group at least attests, even in this event, the wide, the wild, variety of my literary production in time and space. (9)
• There was no meanness there, but neither was there encouragement in that comprehensive brow with its wide sweep of hair. (8)
• The wide curve of the Quadrant swept into a sky of unreal blue, and the orange-shaded lamps merely added to the unreality. (8)
• He is ludicrously wide of the mark in what he says of the early reception of my writings at home and the later in England. (14)
• There was never much talk when he came, for any depth of discussion, even of art, brought out at once too wide a difference. (8)
• All use sheathing-boards of ⅞-inch stock to cover the outside of the studs, and these are usually 6 inches to 8 inches wide. (17)
• She climbed slowly, in the very middle, an extremely small white figure on those wide and shining stairs, counting them aloud. (8)
• The wave of wide extension rolled and sank and rose, heaving lifeless variations of the sickly streaks on its dull green back. (10)
• The windows stood wide open in the heat; the garden lay in thick, soft shadow, where the pitchy shapes of trees could be discerned. (8)
• As it flanges out in three wide terraces and settles down broadly on the earth, it looks like the poop of some great old battle-ship. (2)
• Benson of the slow thick-lidded antediluvian eye and loose-crumpled skin; Benson, the Saurian, the woman-hater; Benson was wide awake. (10)
• Two great white churches, enclosed by neat palings, occupy the middle of wide, neglected squares, and look bleak and bare and uninviting. (20)
• The mortal life appeared to be deadened in her cold wide look; as when the storm-wind banks a leaden remoteness, leaving blown space of sky. (10)
• How narrow, how petty, how tiresome everything seemed, and what she had bartered for it was the world, the whole wide, wide world. (5)
• Meanwhile Champlain at home in France saw with eagle eye that Huguenot and Catholic could never live together in peace across the wide waste of waters. (19)
• Ashurst saw nothing but the brightened stream, the furze faintly gilded, the beech trees glistening, and behind them all the wide loom of the moonlit hill. (8)
• These throw wide their coats, displaying to the ticket-taker their badges of office fastened to suspender or waistcoat, and are permitted to enter the tents. (21)
• Behold the winged Olympus, off the mead, With thunder of wide pinions, lightning speed, Wafting the shepherd-boy through ether clear, To bear the golden nectar-cup. (10)

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