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

Mrs. Barnes' gaze came back from the wide-stretching scene beside her, and rested enquiringly on the old speaker.

From The Making of Mona by Quiller-Couch, Mabel

There was a strange mushroom look about them; low walls of muck-daubed logs supported wide-stretching roofs of reeds, which, in their turn, supported a thick covering of soot-begrimed snow.

From In the Brooding Wild by Cullum, Ridgwell

The slopes of the Armenian highlands are clothed with fine forests, and the vine is grown at their base, while on the wide-stretching steppes the Turko-Tatars pasture cattle, horses and sheep.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various

Peace, the peace of well-being, peculiar to late summer, pervaded the wide-stretching level fields.

From Regina or the Sins of the Fathers by Sudermann, Hermann