Outspread

Virgil too calls the outspread, even plain, “justissima tellus.” ❋ 1802-1876 (1871)

But there was weight in the cat's paw, and the claws of it were outspread like so many hooks. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"You are AWESOME," he repeated several times, holding his left arm in the air and gazing at his outspread fingers a move we copied all night long. ❋ MeiMei Fox (2012)

The angel pushed through the crowd, his wings outspread, even as Brystion slowly moved in front of me. ❋ Allison Pang (2011)

Its back bore a beetle with outspread wings, and, when the figure turned, its breastplate was embossed with a large, radiant Ankh. ❋ Savannah Schroll Guz (2011)

As I arrive, a hoopoe flounces down to the field alongside and, crest outspread, studiously feasts on worms. ❋ Unknown (2011)

A peregrine falcon was idling on the breeze, wings outspread – unusual behaviour, he said. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The best artists were imported for its decoration, which included carvings of warring archers, wild animal hunts, and eagles with outspread wings. ❋ Philip Freeman (2011)

Why had she sat in the same spot where I usually stayed, looking out over the ocean, my wings outspread to the night air? ❋ Kristine Douglas (2011)

A comma butterfly, its outspread wings angled perfectly to absorb the sun's rays. ❋ Unknown (2011)

In the bay-window display, apothecary bottles, one of the old-fashioned scales with its outspread pans like the arms of a crucifix, jars of Bromo-Seltzer, folded-up wheelchairs, ❋ Unknown (2010)

Some carry monikers that point to their geographical origin in the city: "Suvaco de Cristo," literally translated as "The Armpit of Christ," is based in a neighborhood more or less underneath the outspread arms of Rio's Christ the Redeemer statue. ❋ Unknown (2011)

At the bottom, an old Freeman's Journal—the great strike, Larkin, arms outspread, Jesus in a raincoat. ❋ James Claffey (2011)

A passing comma butterfly floated into view and settled on a yellow ragwort inflorescence, shuffled around until its outspread wings were angled perfectly to absorb the sun's rays and then uncoiled its tongue to feed. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The not yet-subsided sea rolled in long slow billows of mighty bulk and, striding in the Pequod's gurgling track, pushed her on like giants' palms outspread. ❋ Unknown (2011)