wide-stretching
Example Sentences
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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
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
When the tiny spider standing at the center of its wide-stretching and intricate web, woven for destruction, chances to touch any thread of the web, immediately that thread vibrates to the uttermost extremity.
From A Man's Value to Society Studies in Self Culture and Character by Hillis, Newell Dwight
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
