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
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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
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
On either side of the fountain, and leading to the terrace at the back, were flights of marble steps, with wide-stretching stone bases upon either side towering above the grass.
From The Little Schoolmaster Mark A Spiritual Romance by Shorthouse, J. H.
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