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

The village should not be its parish, but rather its base of operations, from which it goes forth to all the wide-stretching territory that lies beyond.

From The Making of a Country Parish by Harlow S.

As Toby had truly said, they could not really continue on their way without passing under the wide-stretching branches of the tree where he claimed to have seen "something that looked like a wildcat."

From Afloat or, Adventures on Watery Trails by Douglas, Alan

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)

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