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she was not listening, but had stretched out on the leafy ground and was looking up at the canopy of leaves over head.

At night before he went to bed he practiced sitting with his legs crossed, and then he stretched his back by curling himself into a ball.

When he had gone she let her eyes wander slyly to the figure of a tall young man stretched lazily in a chair not far distant.

The internal coaching resource is often stretched owing to lack of trained personnel.

I feel as if time has somehow been stretched. The distance between Monday and Friday feels greater, but the weekends seem longer too.

The quiet streets stretched out on either side like the arms of a skeleton.

At the sound of my voice, he jarred himself up and stretched against me, raising his arms over his head and cracking his shoulders.

When a Web team is in place, it is often over-stretched.

"What's the use? " he said weakly, as he stretched himself to rest.

I don't know if it happened during the course of the game when he stretched for the ball.

She did not move, and when Troy stretched out his hand to pull her towards him, she fell back with a quick, low scream.

Bula Melnikov soldiers bogged down, he was about to be engulfed in the moment, seize the teammates stretched over the barrel.

Since red and yellow feathers, claws stretched out inside, Yi Shen a, as if it led you to do gymnastics!

Then he noticed his nose had stretched because it had got wet with all the crying and it was now a long trunk which had hit him on his back.

Dimitri stood up and stretched his limbs. He said, "Here, let me help you. "

He stretched out his hands, still smeared with blood, perhaps that of his father.

I am not likely to ask anything very unreasonable, and if I did, they might have stretched a point.

The sea reach of the Thames stretched before us like the beginning of an interminable waterway.

An old man stretched his arms out on the marble table in the park, laid his head on his hands and fell asleep.

Raine stretched, arching his back to shake off the effects of hours sleeping crumpled up in a chair albeit a fairly luxurious one.

But if, as Smith described, one man wrought the iron and another stretched it, who could say what was the marginal productivity of each?

After a moment's hesitation, the young man stretched out his hands to meet it.

Porter stretched out on his bed, hands clasped behind his head.

He did not condemn the inability of police to halt the violence, saying officers had been stretched "very thin. "

After your knee has stretched out for a while, perform a set of ten quadriceps contractions with your leg in the same position.

Grantaire rose to his feet with a start, stretched out his arms, rubbed his eyes, stared, yawned, and understood.

The snail crept half out of his shell, stretched out his horns, and drew them in again.

For by now I could have stretched out my hand and struck you and your people with a plague that would have wiped you off the earth.

The heat sink of lamp is made of stretched aluminum, with its reflex housing made of stretched high-purity anodized aluminum plate.

Now they stretched themselves out on their elbows and began to puff, charily, and with slender confidence.

And seemed so beautifully warm that the child stretched out her feet as if to warm them, when, lo!

It would not have been difficult to do this, with a few snares stretched at the openings of the burrows.

The pair inspected one another. The meerkat stretched out a little paw and appeared to kiss the giraffe.

He made the earth by his power; he founded the world by his wisdom and stretched out the heavens by his understanding.

Indeed, the correction has helped to ease valuations , which had begun to test more stretched levels in certain sectors and markets.

How much are the particles stretched in their direction of motion.

While swinging one day, my son, James, 3, closed his eyes and stretched out his arms as the wind blew through his hair.

stretched long over the meadow eastward, as if we were the only motes in its beams.

He was stretched out on a chair, with a handkerchief over his eyes.

Jonas, who had already been stretched out on the bed when the question came to his mind, sat back up.

It's been of a great pleasure all this autumn on my trip to work, if only it stretched to no end.

Now of course, your head would be squeezed and stretched unhelpfully, so you might have trouble understanding what's going on.

Take your time with intercourse and allow her to fully feel every inch of you that she's stretched around.

Love is a sea of desire stretched between shores-only the shores are real, but how much more compelling is the sea.

So Moses stretched out his hand toward the sky, and total darkness covered all Egypt for three days.

"I noticed this little girl was leaning against the glass with both hands out stretched staring at the 'big kitties', " he said.

Adobe is soil that contains at least 40% clay. In its purest form, clay can be shaped and stretched and used to make objects.

With your leg stretched out in front of you and the knee supported, make an imaginary line from the heel to the ground.

The patient shook her head and stretched out her hands towards the baby. The doctor put it in her arms. She kissed it on the forehead.

He had, however, a baby in his beak that was as lovely as an angel, and stretched out its little hands to the Queen.

He unzipped his jacket and sat, his legs stretched out in front of him, his head resting against the cushioned upholstery.

As soon as she cut him open, a little kid stretched out his head, and then a second, and a third sprang out as she continued cutting.

He stretched out his arm and said, "Grandpa, let me take you across. "

The young Emperor was stretched on a couch of dyed lion skins, and a ger-falcon perched upon his wrist.

Dressed in a light dress, her rhythmic movements danced the flare. A pair of white velvet wings stretched at her back.

Their temples, roads, and dwelling places stretched across the breadth of the dark continent.

So Moses stretched out his staff over Egypt, and the Lord made an east wind blow across the land all that day and all that night.

The back-and-forth on the matter began Thursday morning and stretched into the afternoon, a senior Obama administration official said.

The additional troops quickly divided the North Korean forces, which had been stretched from north to south.

The EU's response, stretched over the next couple of years, is inevitably going to be a messy compromise.

And at the moment he stretched out his hand, he felt his fingers touched her soft cotton dress.

When he had slowed to twenty and stretched his wings again at last, the boat was a crumb on the sea, four thousand feet below.

In the back end of the season they (Manchester United) have had a few little injuries which have maybe stretched them a little bit.

But when I stretched the naps during the day, I felt more tired at night and made up for it by taking more frequent naps at night.

Often after sex he would be so comfortably stretched out, immobile, that he would not clean himself up, staining her sheets.

Romola stretched out her hand to the crucifix, and this act appeared to relieve the tension of her mind.

This asana is so named because the body mimics the shape of a bow with its string stretched back ready to shoot an arrow.

They stretched out their hands towards her, but they did not venture so near the land as her sisters did.

But since he had come he meant to wait; and he sank into a chair and stretched his feet to the logs.

But amazingly the tiger hung his head, stretched a paw out to her hand and rubbed his cheek against where the girl's face was.

His eyes were closed, as if the king of this domain were taking a nap, stretched in the sun to soak up the long-awaited warmth of spring.

She stretched out her hand to touch his arm; then she drew herself up in the dark and rubbed her eyes, realising that she was alone.

The minister, Nelson Jobim, said the debris which appeared to include aircraft seats as well as wires and metal stretched over a wide area.

Lenny watched from the side, fully dressed, stretched out on a plastic lounge chair, peering out from underneath a baseball cap.

e. g. He spends all day stretched out on the sofa and never lifts a finger to help.

He found Mormont stretched out in the lower one, swaying slowly with the motion of the ship.

Stretched over a punishment rack, his hands tied down and feet held, the prisoner was beaten.

How wonderful it was that You came to me, it was a miracle. You stretched Your miraculous hand to catch me from falling down into the abyss.

Loch seemed not to hear me as he walked forwards and stretched his hand out for the next door, as if drawn by a magnetic force.

His hands stretched forth straightly, as if asking for something.

He stretched out his hand desperately as if to snatch only a wisp of air, to save a fragment of the spot that she had made lovely for him.

The pullover stretched (ie out of shape) after I had worn it a few times.

"I see! " The baby camel stretched his neck and looked up at his mother, "Then what are we doing in this cage in the middle of a zoo? "

Fletcher shook his head and stretched his wings and opened his eyes at the base of the cliff, in the center of the whole Flock assembled.

Then they looked up in wonder to see their first rainbow, stretched across the sky in brilliant bands of color!

Mr. Prince said he never sold more than a few of the Citigroup shares amassed during a career that stretched nearly 30 years.

Reis used an animal membrane stretched over a small cone inserted into a bung hole of a barrel. To the membrane was fixed a platinum wire.

MY BOSS STANDS too close to my desk with his little smile, his lips together and stretched thin, his crotch at my elbow.

And immediately Jesus stretched out His hand and took hold of him and said to him, You of little faith, why did you doubt?

"It is an investment, " he said, as he stretched his arms the width of the room, laying his palms flat on opposite sides of the wall.

It's an ugly sweater with red plastic buttons and a collar and sleeves all stretched out like you could use it for a jump rope.

And I said yes. Then he stretched his leg over the hole, and the hole sealed up. He took me home.

With silkscreen printing, a stencil is attached to a fine piece of stretched silk or nylon cloth.

She and Ginny got into the front seat, which had been stretched so that it resembled a park bench.

He picked a seat by the door for me and I stretched the large-sized purple coat made by him across the seat.

She gets down on her knees. She opens her mouth, her lips stretched wide and thin, and runs her tongue along the bottom of Lenny's sole.

I imagined with my hands stretched out of the windows and started to feel a bit colder.

The haunted, Aphex Twin-sampling "Blame Game" bottoms out with a verse in which Kanye's voice is sped up, slowed down and stretched out.

And Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt; and the frogs came up, and covered the land of Egypt.

The coup in 1973, which had the backing of the United States, ended a democratic tradition in Chile that stretched back to the 1930s.

I turned the corner of a warehouse, and my own shadow stretched out in front of me.

The hare stretched and yawned and began to run again, but it was too late. The tortoise was over the line.

She worked nights at the hospital, but the small wage that she was earning could only be stretched so far.

If all the blood vessels in a single human body were stretched end to end, they would form a rope capable of going around the world.

He stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way.

sid yawned , stretched , then brought himself up on his elbow with a snort , and began to stare at tom.

Captain Nemo and his muscular companion were already stretched out in this clear crystal, setting us a fine nap time example.

Then stretched out his hands, like the water in the palm of your hand, but they always from my fingers go.

And behold, one of those with Jesus stretched out his hand and drew his sword, and struck the slave of the high priest and took off his ear.

As the debate stretched into the night, a towering Tuareg man came over to ask if I and my security advisor were tired.

on the train back to Washington, Lincoln bay stretched out on a seat, tired and discouraged.

Someone had played a trick on her, stretched a piece of string at the top of those steps.

Much of the world could end up in a beggar-my-neighbour position towards an increasingly fiscally stretched US.

Now and then, he stretched his head out of the roof to find out if the rain would be gone.

Rippling crystal streams stretched away into the distance from the towering bluffs like the beautiful streamers of a fairy maid.

All of a sudden, he stretched out his four limbs and turned instantly into a big tall man.

In a few seconds , she stretched herself out stiff , and turned up her eyes .

He promised to repay me in three days. But the days stretched into months and I never got a cent back from him.

Still, like most skiers, I couldn't bear the thought of being left out of any morning skiing and cautiously stretched my limbs to warm up.

I often put his hand stretched, let sunshine in coloured glaze window scattered lazy to go through. As if can.

Optimus Prime was stretched out on his bier, his body larger, bulkier, and bristling with new armaments, both familiar -looking and strange.

Then he saw Pinocchio stretched out on the floor with his feet burnt.

Korean pine used to be the mainstay of the "Great Northern Wildnerness" which once stretched across an area bigger than northern Europe.

Little tom went shopping with his mom and he stretched out his hand to take the cake on the shop counter .

The tired man awakened. He stood up, stretched out his hand, and said, "Peace. "

If they had been alone they might have stretched out their arms to it.

I collected all my instruments around me so that I might bring life to the creature that lay stretched out in front of me.

Just beyond it, a tabletop-flat slab of concrete runway stretched for two miles.

Stretched naked on a long table lay the body of Henry Armstrong, the head defiled with blood and clay from a blow with a spade.

Only now it was not a stump because all the pulling had stretched it into the long trunk that elephants have now.

All head first entries shall be executed with the arms stretched beyond the head in line with the Body, with the legs close together.

I am 5'2 " and if I had stretched out in it my legs would have been up the wall. "

The stalled traffic stretched between Jining in Inner Mongolia and Huai'an in Hebei province, north-west of Beijing, said the Global Times.

They did this, and when Aaron stretched out his hand with the staff and struck the dust of the ground, gnats came upon men and animals.

eg. In some tropical regions small boats used to be made of skins stretched over a wooden frame.

Waking up feeling stiff the next morning, Johannah sat up and stretched, accidentally knocking Peanut off of her chest.

It did not seem beautiful to us, merely flat with cathedral-sized silos and fields that stretched to the horizon.

Draws the surface stretched to the indicated region. color is the blending color and alpha indicates the transparency setting.

The security line stretched the length of the Dallas Airport and check-in lines were crowded as well.

I changed my shoes, and stretched out my right hand to the wall to turn on the lights so that the hall would be properly lighted.

He crawled to the roadside, and stretched out his limbs on the snow, with a deep sigh.

Stretched out in front of the oak stump, he appeared but a shadow of the proud beast he once had been.

After he saw off slowly and turned to the thick arms stretched out, very lovingly looked inside the door, as in what went on.

He grinned, stretched out the corners of his mouth, and pressed down his brows.

He stepped out on to the narrow ledge and, holding the frame, stretched across to wipe away the annoying smudge.

In the photos we can see two massive chrome bars stretched across the grille with a prominent Ford oval badge resting between them.

The sure-fire test for runner's knee: sit down and put your leg out on a chair so that it's stretched out straight.

A strange cloud of red and orange flames began surrounding the object, and before he knew it, the object stretched out like a rubber band.

At the last words, he stretched out his hand again, hurriedly, and cried.

I stretched out my hands, closed my eyes and waited for the pigeons to fly to me.

Over the last five years, the Web has been stretched perhaps further than at any other time in its history.

Sadly masculine his naked body lies beside me, stretched out on the pale sheets of my otherwise deserted bed.

But we may be seeing a consumer reacting to all the deep discounts and buying early because retailers have stretched the season out so much.

asked Josie at length, after our eyes had explored the long room. She stretched out her hand and took up a ballerina doll.

And, just as when you bend a piece of metal back and forth, it gets hot, Io is being stretched back and forth and getting hot.

Her father's great faculties seemed, as they stretched away, to lose themselves in a sort of luminous vagueness.

Her mother, herself a lilting mezzo, insisted that the Voice should never be stretched or overtaxed.

He had the strange feeling that instead of lying on a comfy spring mattress he was stretched out on something hard.

The Princess's hair seemed magical for it stretched the whole distance and even with his weight did not break.

The train let us off at a spacious lodge with restaurants and brilliant views of peaks and valleys that stretched to the Black Forest.

Interpretation of the article has been stretched so far, especially under Mr Koizumi, that it has become almost meaningless.

There was not even a robin or a squirrel among the trees, and the wood stretched as far as he could see in every direction.

This method has been used in the GMS satellite stretched VISSR image receiving and processing system developed by authors.

He stretched himself out on the beach, bathing in the sun.

The man did this and walked out of the store with his right arm stretched down his left shoulder lifted up and his right leg stiff.

The criminal would be attached to a cart wheel and his arms and legs stretched out along the spokes.

We've begun to do that, by eliminating a backlog in background checks that at one point stretched back almost a year.

A fine net stretched between two trees across a flight path is an effective method of catching birds in flight.

More times than not, the administrator resource is already stretched thin, so getting a new environment deployed can be a painful process.

Other cosmetics are stretched with a variety of fillers to bulk-up the quantity of the product and the margin of profit.

With it's linear snake-like shape, stretched volume and facade coating building is corresponding with a environment.

Composites showed higher conductivity and lower percolation threshold along the stretched direction than perpendicular to it.

There is still a deadline and benchmarks that go with that and these cannot be stretched, changed or altered in any way.

A hand stretched up to the wind.

Some young people dressed in black shouting "Russia for Russians" and stretched out his right arm Nazi salute.

One summer afternoon in 2002, Mr. Wu went out on an errand and saw a banner stretched across the main road downtown.

By the side of the motorway, we saw long queues of cars waiting for petrol - some of the lines stretched for several hundred metres.

Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know! Who stretched a measuring line across it?

This allows the various layers to be assembled at a more manageable scale and then heated and stretched out, like seaside rock.

Loyal at the top but weak even by regional standards, it would be stretched to cover the whole country especially the vast north-east.

I did not see how he managed to covey the thin hair stretched tightly back over the skull without actually painting it.

The wagon will essentially be a stretched version of the five-door hatch so expect to see a body stretching more than 4. 4m.

At times their different interests stretched the bonds between them almost to breaking point.

With their heads stretched out, constantly bobbing, it seriously seemed as if they were posing.

He himself stretched out his arms; to catch the lump clay, but it was dirt it?

The wings are made of a polythene film stretched over a carbon fiber frame.

He stretched hand to carry my collar of dress and lifted my heel to leave ground.

But since this highly strung fault line has stretched several millimeters per year for the last 250 years, it was time for it to snap.

Muscle strain can warm up before exercise, after exercise, stretch pull muscles. Do not be stretched elastic vibration.

He stretched the canvas tightly over the frame and began to paint.

The restoring force in a vibrating flexible membrane arises from the tension with which it is stretched.

The SNMP protocol was stretched to its limit supporting new and varying devices that it was never designed for.

This allows the various layers to be assembled at a more manageable scale and then stretched out, like seaside rock.

By the time of his death in 1227, he had created an empire that stretched from the Pacific coast to the Caspian Sea.

Bending down, the blind man stretched out his hand and patted the dog's head.

The children stretched a rope across the path .

An instrument with a usually pear-shaped body and a fretted neck over which several pairs of strings are stretched.

Across the rivers great and small stretched the fish weirs, usually made of stakes and nets or basket work.

Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.

She stretched out a bony hand, and with amazing strength stabbed a cushion .

His influence stretched across a modern world that he seemed to see coming years in advance.

The white lane stretched before him, and his eyes were upon it; but they were staring into next year, and not at the lane.

The escort climbed aboard, seating himself in front beside my out-stretched feet. The driver called.

On their journey across the universe, the wavelengths of light have stretched. The farther the light travels, the more stretched it gets.

Lady Ashton is undoubtedly stretched, and not merely by lack of experience or an inability to be in two places at once.

At the bottom level, Lenovo leaves management of the expansion to external distributors, so that re-sources are not stretched too thinly.

He saw some tender leaves on a branch and stretched out his neck to reach them.

But the British market may do rather better than still-stretched valuations suggest.

He sank into a chair and stretched his feet to the logs.

People stretched out on the floor of the hallway near our safe room, often wearing their body armour, dozing when they could.

The two countries also share burgeoning populations of elderly people and a social security system already stretched beyond capacity.

About 600 people were required to carry the veil as it stretched down the road behind the bride in Elena's wedding.

House prices are an ever-present concern in Australia, with affordability stretched after years of solid growth.

And he stretched forth his hand toward his disciples, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren!

Paris would have been smothered in lush tropical rainforest which stretched east across the entire continent.

I lay there stretched out straight and stiff in the dark, my fists clenched hard upon nothing.

Dale stretched . His arm went along the back of the bench , not quite around her shoulders , but she felt his muscles .

The relationship with GE stretched back to China, where ICBC provided the company with some backup credit lines.

On the horizon , a huge cloud of dense smoke from the burning oil well stretched across the sky .

This forward-and-backward motion is the usual adjustment of the body; it moves to keep the arms from a stretched or overly bent position.

The President lay stretched out on the large Lincoln bed.

They speculate that the island may have even been part of a much larger landmass that once stretched from Scotland to Norway.

That vast expanse of water mist in the Yellow River has so much like a beautiful picture, stretched far away to connect the blue sky!

"People think it's a good business with good prospects, but the valuation is stretched and the stock price is overdone, " he said.

Then he stretched himself out on the boy three times and cried to the Lord , "O Lord my God, let this boy's life return to him! "

She also said that dollar short positions had begun to look extremely stretched.

A working life that stretched out for longer but clipped along at a slower pace might suit most people rather better .

A paintbrush dipped full of ink draws quickly across the stretched canvas, the figure of an ancient dancer is slowly formed.

they are all without knowledge; they are all dogs without tongues, unable to make a sound; stretched out dreaming, loving sleep.

He stood up, stretched his four limbs, as if to show off what an athletic body he had.

The golden age of growth for the American city stretched from the late 1800s into the early 1900s.

As I learnt when I was a governor of the Fed during the current crisis, its staff have been stretched to the limit.

Sit down on the floor with both legs stretched forward and your hands place on your hips.

he started up, and stretched out hin hands to seize and kill us; but we ran to such places as he could not reach.

Soon he was sound asleep. The little rest stretched into a good long nap.

Enthusiasm for betting has rebounded "like a stretched string" after the long ban.

We were in Tibet, no matter what the borders say, with a huge sky that stretched from mountain range to mountain range.

Ps 136: 12 With a strong hand, and with a stretched out arm, for his mercy endureth for ever.

A standardized piece of dough is stretched with the hook of a Brabender extensograph until the piece breaks.

If stretched too thin, teachers will be forced to attend only to the neediest students, he said.

When he stretched her hand to write on the blackboard, we could see a part of her back.

And a number simple become too stretched to maintain the quality and service that drove then to the top at home.

Lining the side of the road, several families had stretched sheets of white, red and blue plastic over wooden poles.

Conflicts around the globe have also led to great human suffering and have stretched health care services to the extreme.

Rainwater will be collected in tarps stretched over the deck, and a desalinator will turn sea water into drinking water.

Many of the trees stretched so far forwards as almost to blend the rock with the shore, when seen from a little distance.

He picked a leaf from above, and moved to the gate. He stretched out a leaf first, but the strong wind in the desert thrashed the leaf.

I was yet aware that the world waited outside, as hungry as a tiger, and that trouble stretched above us, longer than the sky.

"Chu Zhong walks to own location, at public an stagnant vision in stretched out a hand to the red elder sister, " my rice?

Jack sat up and stretched as much as the handcuff on his wrist would allow. Then he looked around.