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.
In his novel, Mr. Shulman wrote: "The ugly gray and red tenements, tombstones of disease, unrest and the smoldering violence which has its birth in misery, were crowded close together and rose straight up on both sides of the street to shut off all but a narrow expanse of sky.
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.
Somber and self-contained, with windows too narrow for the expanse of wall between them, it is a house which does not welcome.
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].
Many of the insights are subtle; more than a few are the result of Carter's decision to follow the meanderings of this one family, to cut a narrow swath across a broad expanse of time.
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.
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.
What previously appeared as narrow crowded roads is now an expanse of rolling hills colored by fog and grazing wildlife.
The northern border with Asia posed a different problem for geographers because, as knowledge of and self-consciousness in that part of the world increased, it turned out that "Europe" was not connected to Asia via a narrow isthmus, but rather via the widening expanse of Russia.
