wide-stretching
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Others, at night, lit torches from their fires, set ablaze piles of sugar cane over wide-stretching fields.
From Time Magazine Archive
As Toby had truly said, they could not really continue on their way without passing under the wide-stretching branches of the tree where he claimed to have seen "something that looked like a wildcat."
From Afloat or, Adventures on Watery Trails by Alan Douglas
The second brother, without meeting with any adventure, reached a wide-stretching moor, where he stopped for his meal.
From Fairy Tales of the Slav Peasants and Herdsmen by Emily J. Harding
The image of desolation and eery bleakness had its source in the wide-stretching sands, the unforgettable sea beyond, and particularly the inlet, or lagoon, up above the natural dam of stone.
From Kastle Krags A Story of Mystery by Absalom Martin
And from all this wide-stretching housing-place of a vast population, there rose into my ears a continuous, dull, peculiar sound, as of the magnified stertorous breathing of a hived and stifled humanity.
From A Cry in the Wilderness by Mary E. (Mary Ella) Waller
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