Expand

I’m going to expand the image.” Pritcher had watched the phenomenon of Lens Image expansion before but he still caught his breath.

“How is it I did not know it before?” “God is in the midst, and each drop tries to expand so as to reflect Him to the greatest extent.

Once the fire begins within, the heat causes the substance to expand violently, and the jars shortly fly to pieces.

Two bird-?bright ovals — the eyes of the old woman — seemed to expand and glow as they stared into his.

It had had plenty of room to expand, thanks to the spare diet of the establishment; and perhaps to this circumstance may be attributed his having any ninth birthday at all.

Harry’s heart seemed to expand and glow at the sight: He felt incredibly fond of all of them, even Mundungus, whom he had tried to strangle the last time they had met.

And like circles on the water, which, as they grow fainter, expand; so his eyes seemed rounding and rounding, like the rings of Eternity.

His body seemed to acquire an airy lightness, his perception brightened in a remarkable manner, his senses seemed to redouble their power, the horizon continued to expand; but it was not the gloomy horizon of vague alarms, and which he had seen before he slept, but a blue, transparent, unbounded horizon, with all the blue of the ocean, all the spangles of the sun, all the perfumes of the summer breeze; then, in the midst of the songs of his sailors—songs so clear and sonorous, that they would have made a divine harmony had their notes been taken down—he saw the Island of Monte Cristo, no longer as a threatening rock in the midst of the waves, but as an oasis in the desert; then, as his boat drew nearer, the songs became louder, for an enchanting and mysterious harmony rose to heaven, as if some Loreley had decreed to attract a soul thither, or Amphion, the enchanter, intended there to build a city.

The heart, thus thrown back upon itself, works downward within itself, since it cannot overflow, and grows deep, since it cannot expand.

You may have known your neighbor yesterday for a thief, a drunkard, or a sensualist, and merely pitied or despised him, and despaired of the world; but the sun shines bright and warm this first spring morning, recreating the world, and you meet him at some serene work, and see how his exhausted and debauched veins expand with still joy and bless the new day, feel the spring influence with the innocence of infancy, and all his faults are forgotten.

All till’d and untill’d fields expand before me, I see the true arenas of my race, or first or last, Man’s innocent and strong arenas.

“New hopes are in their arms and legs, their hearts expand.

The Metaverse was built with plenty of room to expand.

I wish the tub would expand so I could go swimming, like I used to on hot summer Sundays in the woods with my father.

There was a desperate need for room to expand driven by the myth of Freedom.

Together, you and I could expand the power of Rome.

Snakes act on the same principle which makes the hen ruffle her feathers and expand her wings when a dog approaches her chickens.

Such a heart will expand and see that God is merciful and that men are good and just.

London had grown, slowly, until, roughly a thousand years later, it met the tiny Royal City of Westminster immediately to the west, and, once London Bridge had been built, London touched the town of Southwark directly across the river; and it continued to grow, fields and woods and marshland slowly vanishing beneath the flourishing town, and it continued to expand, encountering other little villages and hamlets as it grew, like Whitechapel and Dept-ford to the east, Hammersmith and Shepherd’s Bush to the west, Camden and Islington in the north, Battersea and Lambeth across the Thames to the south, absorbing all of them, just as a pool of mercury encounters and incorporates smaller beads of mercury, leaving only their names behind.

Susannah felt her stomach expand at the sight, as if making ready to swallow all of it, and it was only with a great effort that she stopped the sensual moan rising in her throat.

expand thy sails, Ply the strong oar, and catch the nimble gales; Here Scylla bellows from the dire abodes, Tremendous pest, abhorr'd by man and gods!