wide-extending

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This is, however, only one of a series of lakes which the doctor discovered in the wide-extending province of Londa.

From Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley by Kingston, William Henry Giles

I followed him up the rigging, and saw in the far west a wide-extending dark blue line moving quickly on towards us.

From Peter Biddulph The Story of an Australian Settler by Kingston, William Henry Giles

The latter are by far the most numerous inhabitants of its wide-extending forests.

From The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America by Kingston, William Henry Giles

The vast territory south of the Brazils is watered by a wide-extending branch-work of mighty streams, having as their main trunk the Rio de la Plata at their southern end.

From The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America by Kingston, William Henry Giles

Herodotus, the father of history, was a good geographer and an experienced traveler, yet his only conception of the world was as a flat, wide-extending surface.

From The Story of Extinct Civilizations of the West by Anderson, Robert Edward