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

It was a beautiful old garden and had once formed part of the wide-stretching estate where people were in the habit, at the end of the eighteenth century, of going to drink the Passy waters.

From The Golden Triangle The Return of Ars?ne Lupin by Leblanc, Maurice

Its green forests, its impressive mountains, its rushing rivers, its white and many-colored cities, its wide-stretching shores, fringed with the foam of an azure sea, lay before the astonished eyes of our visitors.

From The Goddess of Atvatabar Being the history of the discovery of the interior world and conquest of Atvatabar by Bradshaw, William Richard

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

The land is largely composed of the pantanals, the flat, wide-stretching marshes through which the Paraguay and its affluents wind.

From A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open by Roosevelt, Theodore