In the week before Easter, with the first broadening sweep of the sun across the rich brown earth and down into the depths of the twisting lanes the spring was there-there in the sweet smell of the roots as they stirred towards the light, there in the watery gleam of the grass as it caught diamonds from the sun, but there, above all, in the primrose clump hidden in the clefts of the little Cornish woods-so with a cry of delight Spring had leapt from the shoulders of that roaring wind and danced across the Cornish hills.
"Fortitude"
Hugh Walpole
The stream of human thought and deed was hurrying and broadening onward.
"George Eliot"
Mathilde Blind
The ideal of national, constitutional liberty has changed in harmony with the educational revelations of the broadening conception of freedom; and more progressive conceptions of national liberty have rendered it necessary for the educators to reveal truer, freer methods of training children in harmony with the higher national organization.
"Dickens As an Educator"
James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes