far-extending
Example Sentences
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Dædalus built for this purpose the Labyrinth, a far-extending edifice, in which were countless passages, so winding and intertwining that no person confined in it could ever find his way out again.
From Historic Tales, vol 10 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Charles Morris
We passed through the far-extending suburbs of Sydney with their good houses and gardens.
From The Last Voyage to India and Australia, in the 'Sunbeam' by R. T. (Robert Taylor) Pritchett
Then come plains, and dells, and far-extending valleys, arrayed in richest foliage; and beyond them, mountains piled on mountains, some bearing prodigious forests, others of bleak and barren aspect.
From Wanderings in South America by Charles Waterton
The separation for which the ewes wailed and their little ones wept, seemed a cruelty; that far-extending lamentation of the flocks was part of some universal coronach for things eternally doomed.
From Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure by Neil Munro
The trees which form these far-extending wilds are as useful as they are ornamental.
From Wanderings in South America by Charles Waterton
