Even their limited flying abilities would allow turkeys to cross the narrow expanse of the Harlem River from the Bronx, find their way to the Hudson and migrate down its shoreline, he said.
This photo of a worker walking on a narrow expanse, hundreds of feet above a frozen lake in the bitter winds of winter, might bring on an involuntary shudder -- it looks treacherous and so, so cold.
In addition, lower sea levels during the Eocene might also have enhanced the dispersal across narrowed ocean expanses and via additional islands [ 5, 15].
A narrow 30-acre expanse on a steep cliff of Manhattan schist, the park is named for its sunrise views.
Somber and self-contained, with windows too narrow for the expanse of wall between them, it is a house which does not welcome.
I can imagine the most complex of these pieces being purchased by a professional portrait photographer and used as a prop by her sitters, somewhat the way Irving Penn used his narrow corner and expanses of felt.
With wide expanses, narrow meanders and, seemingly everywhere, tentaclelike tree roots forming large arches before disappearing into darkened water, the swamp -- 20 miles of it, from Dover in Dutchess County to Southeast in Putnam County -- seems more Southern bayou than anything Northern.
While the majority (~70%) of the Australian continent is covered by arid or semi-arid vegetation, eastern Australia provides a narrow, but largely continuous expanse of habitat for mesic-adapted species [ 1, 3, 4].
In the same way that the trains used to shoot past this point when the High Line was a railway, your eye travels from the sculpture's narrowest point to a widening expanse of boxes and lines.
When guests came to visit from out of town, I sometimes brought them to the observation deck on the top of World Trade Tower No. 2, not for the view of the city (the Empire State's was better) but for the broad prospect of geography it afforded, with the islands to the south, the distant fragment of ocean, the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, and the green expanse of New Jersey almost at our feet.
What previously appeared as narrow crowded roads is now an expanse of rolling hills colored by fog and grazing wildlife.
