He stood in the shadow of the pagoda, achieving a kinship between the building and himself by his elongate elegance, an air of old, uninsisting nobility.

He tilted the glass slightly now, the surface of the liquid assuming an elongate outline.

The teeth [of Thaumatomyrmex ants] are sometimes so elongate that when the mandibles are closed, the largest pair curve all around the opposite side of the head and stick out behind its posterior rim.

When the muscles of the heart cease to act, the refluent blood again distends or elongates them; and thus irritated they contract as before.

As Mr. Arabin had already moved out of the parsonage of St. Ewold’s, that scheme of elongating the dining-room was of course abandoned;

… elongating his gaze to the remotest point of the ashpit, [he] said …

A writer may tell me that he thinks man will ultimately become an ostrich. I cannot properly contradict him. But before he can expect to bring any reasonable person over to his opinion, he ought to shew, that the necks of mankind have been gradually elongating …

Here, Mr. Lorry perceived the reflexion on the wall to elongate …

His face elongated daily, and his melancholy eyes burned in deepening sockets like dim candles …

… let the common house of easement [[Unsupported titles/`lsqb`i.e.#English|[i.e.]] the outhouse] be ouer some water, or els elongated from the house.

… let us shew in how many particulars they [wicked men] are thus elongated, or made afar off from God.

The principal force and property of hatred then, is to divide, separate, alienate, and elongate a man from what he hates.

… about Capo Frio in Brasilia, the south point varieth twelve degrees unto the West, and about the mouth of the Straites of Magellan five or six; but elongating from the coast of Brasilia toward the shore of Africa it varyeth Eastward,

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