Sentence examples for stretch forth from inspiring English sources

An observer noted, "Several in crowd appear to take this for a Fascist salute and stretch forth their arms likewise".

"We had them in our grasp," Lincoln wailed, "We had only to stretch forth our hands & they were ours".

But when thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another shall gird thee, and carry thee whither thou wouldest not".

"The Exaltation of Saint John Coltrane" re-envisions the legendary jazz saxophonist's music as invocatory, while in "Ethiopia Shall Stretch Forth Her Hands", deft description of heavyweight boxer Joe Louis's fighting style transforms him into a figurehead of Pan-Africanism: "He will never gloat over a fallen opponent.

Then Abram bound the youth with belts and straps, And builded parapets and trenches there, And stretched forth the knife to slay his son.

When the Buddha himself intervenes in Monkey's fate, stretching forth a giant blue hand to tamp down his unruly excesses, this ornery creature has the nerve to urinate in his palm, for which he pays a heavy price.

It was part of the Book of Exodus, which relates how, after the Nile turned to blood, Aaron stretched forth his staff, causing a plague of frogs to descend on Egypt.

We are handsomely seated tho' the long hand of Jonathan Miller (of all people!) stretches forth to ruffle H. Director of theatre – a very tall man indeed in a safari suit: "I am so delighted to see you here.

Stretching forth the official staff in his left hand, he laid his right upon the shoulder of a young woman, whom he thus drew forward until, on the threshold of the prison-door, she repelled him, by an action marked with natural dignity and force of character, and stepped into the open air, as if by her own free-will.

She saw all the glories of the camp – its tents stretched forth in beauteous uniformity of lines, crowded with the young and the gay, and dazzling with scarlet; and, to complete the view, she saw herself seated beneath a tent, tenderly flirting with at least six officers at once".

He stirred and stretched forth his neck to sniff.