The title unfolds, like a pair of outstretched arms, as if trying to grasp the width of a world that was, in Defoe's day, dramatically expanding its sense of possibility.

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One is a pair of long outstretched arms.

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He directed us to stand with our heels on a pair of marks on the floor, hold our arms out from our sides and stand still for roughly five seconds while the Kinect cameras mounted all around us snapped away.

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Daphne Elliott started the rush with a 3-pointer from the top of the key and Bultron finished it with a pair of baskets in the final 2:18, the first a pretty floater over the outstretched arms of Craig.

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Even frightened toddlers who prefer the arms of their parents may still be persuaded to hug the au pair.

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Now it appeared that a woman was with them, who was wider and heavier in the arms than they were, and, as I stood there, she decided that my pair of shoes, too, should be theirs.

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