wide-extending

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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

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

Manna asked hesitatingly, why the Priest had not taken upon himself the wide-extending benevolent work, which the Professorin was now commissioned by her father to carry on.

From Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine by Auerbach, Berthold

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 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