wide-extending

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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

One day, the sage Narada, O bull of Bharata's race, seeing the wide-extending and innumerable branches of that tree and the circumference of his trunk, approached and addressed him, saying, 'O thou art delightful!

From The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 by Ganguli, Kisari Mohan

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

The wide-extending marshes and pools are frequented by pelicans, herons, and wild geese, ducks, and flamingoes; while other birds—chiefly belonging to the Falconidae, Ardeidae, Strigidae, and Psittacidae—are numerous.

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

The greater portion of the mountainsides are covered, from the water’s edge upwards to the elevation of 1500 feet, by one wide-extending forest of evergreen beeches.

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