... The morning mists had dissolved; the sun was finally showing its bright and limpid light, lengthening the shadows of men and trees to fantastic dimensions... 
Vicente Blasco Ibanez Charlotte Brewster Jordan 「The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse」
...Straight in the line ofthe silver bar a water-vole came towardsme, only the head of the little swimmerbeing visible at the apex of a V-shapedwake lengthening rapidly behind him...
Alfred W. Rees 「Creatures of the Night」
...The lengthening of the lower limb,however, is probably copied from the usual form of the Christian emblem...
Washington Matthews 「Navajo Silversmiths」
...In thisway the sun passes round through the signs, lengthening or shorteningthe days and hours at definite seasons...
Vitruvius 「Ten Books on Architecture」
...When an impression is dark, the gilding process may be longer continued;but when light, it should be gilded quickly, as lengthening the time tendsto bleach the impression and make it too white...
Samuel D. Humphrey 「American Handbook of the Daguerrotype」
...The principal effect of the sun on the moon’sorbit is to diminish the earth’s influence, thus lengthening the periodto a new value generally taken as constant...
George Forbes 「History of Astronomy」
...The change ofthe seasons, and the lengthening and shortening of the day, are naturalphenomena, which occur as a consequence of the Earth’s annual revolutionround the Sun...
Thomas Orchard 「The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'」
...The energy of tides is nowknown to be obtained at the expense of the earth's rotation; andaccordingly our day must be slowly, very slowly, lengthening...
Oliver Lodge 「Pioneers of Science」
...The shadows of thenight were spoken of as chased away by the cool breezes of the morning,so the lengthening shadows cast by the declining sun marked the progressof the evening...
E. Walter Maunder 「The Astronomy of the Bible」
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