Literary notes about Extended (AI summary)
The word “extended” is employed with impressive versatility across literature, functioning in both concrete and abstract senses. It often conveys physical length or reach, as when a hand is stretched out in greeting or aid [1][2][3][4], or when a form lies spread across the floor [5][6]. At the same time, authors use it to denote the vast spatial or temporal reach of entities and ideas—empires or narratives that span broad territories or epochs [7][8][9][10], or discussions that cover comprehensive fields of inquiry [11][12]. This multifaceted usage enriches descriptions by simultaneously invoking literal physical reach and the broader extension of influence, duration, or conceptual scope.
- “Yes, Sir Ethelred,” said the Assistant Commissioner, pressing deferentially the extended hand.
— from The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad - The firm old man extended his hand and held her up, keeping his eye upon hers as if to repress any outbreak of passion.
— from Twice-told tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne - The young woman extended her stiff white hands towards him.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet - She raised the hand extended towards her to her lips, and kissed it with a mixture of love and respect.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet - Jacintha therefore hastened alone to Antonia's assistance, and great was her amazement to find her extended upon the floor.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. Lewis - This form was lying face downward, flat on the pavement, with the arms extended in the form of a cross, in the immobility of death.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo - As tribunes of the people, Augustus and Tiberius applied tit to their own persons, and extended it to an infinite latitude.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon - It extended only to Italy, with the exception of Rome and its district, which was governed by the Praefectus urbi.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon - His kingdom extended from the Orontes to the Euphra tes, and as far as the Bosphorus.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon - Yet he might have united them to his empire and in a single reign would have extended Russia from the Gulf of Bothnia to the mouths of the Danube.
— from War and Peace by graf Leo Tolstoy - A retrospect over human experience, if a little extended, can hardly fail to come upon many interesting recurrences.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana - This illustration (whose point is to be extended to all associations lacking reciprocity of interest) brings us to our second point.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey
