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

There are mountains, and sea, and grassland, and trees, and a wide-stretching sky, and white pebbles at my feet.

From My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year by Jowett, John Henry

You see yonder gulf," said he, "and the wide-stretching blue plains beyond.

From Childhood's Favorites and Fairy Stories The Young Folks Treasury, Volume 1 by Hale, Edward Everett

His father's ambition for him was that he should be a great conqueror, that he should lead his troops against the neighbouring kings and overcome them, and in time make for himself a wide-stretching empire.

From The Soul of a People by Fielding, H. (Harold)

That healing flood is like the ocean fulness, and it will fill every bay, and cove, and creek in the wide-stretching shore of human need.

From My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year by Jowett, John Henry