There was a delicious sense of venture to the whole thing: it offered that expansible horizon so necessary to the happiness of youth, though it might be hard to see just why Horatio Ridge's entering upon the wholesale tea and coffee business at the mature age of fifty should light the path to a gorgeous future.
"One Woman's Life"
Robert Herrick
In some of the lesser pools birds larger than the stork, bearing under the throat an expansible bag like that of the pelican, were seeking for prey.
"Across the Zodiac"
Percy Greg
Aug 4, 1890 476,984 expansible Pulley.
"Edison, His Life and Inventions"
Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin