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

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

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

At the estate of Semb, which consisted of the wide-stretching valley of Heimdal, and which was her paternal heritage, had she never, since the time of her marriage, been seen.

From Strife and Peace by Howitt, Mary (Mary Botham)