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
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 Waller, Mary E. (Mary Ella)
He, who has firmly established the tottering earth and arrested the quivering mountains; he who has fixed the extent of the wide-stretching atmosphere, and who has propped up the sky,—O man, it is Indra!
From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 by Various
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 Martin, Absalom
When the tiny spider standing at the center of its wide-stretching and intricate web, woven for destruction, chances to touch any thread of the web, immediately that thread vibrates to the uttermost extremity.
From A Man's Value to Society Studies in Self Culture and Character by Hillis, Newell Dwight
