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

Come here," said I, leading him to the door, and pointing to the wide-stretching moor that lay before us; "it was there,—yonder, where you see that heavy cloud-shadow stealing along,—yonder we first met.

From Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas by Lever, Charles James

The house was frame, low and wide-stretching, with an inviting verandah about a cavernous front door that was dark and rarely open.

From Stubble by Looms, George

It was a beautiful old garden and had once formed part of the wide-stretching estate where people were in the habit, at the end of the eighteenth century, of going to drink the Passy waters.

From The Golden Triangle The Return of Ars?ne Lupin by Leblanc, Maurice

The land is largely composed of the pantanals, the flat, wide-stretching marshes through which the Paraguay and its affluents wind.

From A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open by Roosevelt, Theodore