Citations:reach


 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * Yes, said Mistrust, for just before us lie a couple of lions in the way, whether sleeping or waking we know not, and we could not think, if we came within reach, but they would presently pull us in pieces.
 * Yea, here they heard continually the singing of birds, and saw every day the flowers appear on the earth, and heard the voice of the turtle in the land. [Isa. 62:4, Song of Solomon 2:10-12] In this country the sun shineth night and day; wherefore this was beyond the Valley of the Shadow of Death, and also out of the reach of Giant Despair, neither could they from this place so much as see Doubting Castle.


 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * How it bared its breadth of breast, and opened its capacious palm, and floated on, outpouring, with a generous hand, its bright and harmless mirth on everything within its reach!


 * 2008 February 4 — Ronald W. Langacker. Cognitive Grammar: A Basic Introduction. Oxford University Press. Page 136.
 * By analogy to lake, it might plausibly be suggested that a board is a continuous mass of wood bounded on all sides by... by what? Not by air, since we can easily imagine a board submerged in water or floating in the vacuum of outer space. We can only say, in general, that it is bounded by the absence of wood. A bit of a reach, perhaps. We think of a board as having a surface and a shape, but not a boundary.