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
Its green forests, its impressive mountains, its rushing rivers, its white and many-colored cities, its wide-stretching shores, fringed with the foam of an azure sea, lay before the astonished eyes of our visitors.
From The Goddess of Atvatabar Being the history of the discovery of the interior world and conquest of Atvatabar by Bradshaw, William Richard
He remembered the wide-stretching purple of the sea, the yellow shell-strewn sand, the patch of coarse grass on the bank against which Winifred Anstice leaned.
From Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes by Goodwin, Maud Wilder
“Don’t want to be alone,” replied Dick lazily, as he gazed away over the wide-stretching fen-land with the moist air quivering in the glorious sunshine.
From Dick o' the Fens A Tale of the Great East Swamp by Fenn, George Manville
The old house stood out boldly on the hillside, while the wide-stretching park-lands were plainly to be seen.
From The Everlasting Arms by Hocking, Joseph
