I who, puffed up with pride and arrogance, Thought all the kingdoms of the earth mine own, If I would but Outstretch my hand and take them, Meet face to face a greater potentate, King Death-Epiphanes-the Illustrious!
"The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow"
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I believed for a moment my words had appealed to her nobler nature; that she would Outstretch to me her slightly uplifted hand and surrender utterly.
"My Lady of the North"
Randall Parrish
She raised her white arms above her head, finger-tips joined, poised an instant on the brink, swaying forward; then, at his brief word, they flashed downward together, cutting the crystalline sea-water, shooting like great fish over the glass-tiled bed, shoulder to shoulder under the water; and opening their eyes, they turned toward one another with a swift Outstretch of hands, an uncontrollable touch of lips, the very shadow of contact; then cleaving upward, rising to the surface to lie breathlessly floating, arms extended, and the sun filtering down through the ground-glass roof above.
"The Fighting Chance"
Robert W. Chambers