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

“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

They replied with their musketry, and it may well be supposed how terrific appeared that blaze of fire extending throughout the whole length of that wide-stretching line.

From Hurricane Hurry by Kingston, William Henry Giles

How like to reality were the gigantic thistles, the ombu-trees, the wide-stretching pampas, the ostriches, the wild horses and other animals, the gauchos and their costumes—in short, everything delineated.

From The Finger of Fate A Romance by Reid, Mayne

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