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
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)
Peace, the peace of well-being, peculiar to late summer, pervaded the wide-stretching level fields.
From Regina or the Sins of the Fathers by Sudermann, Hermann
When Wynne came out of the cabin, instead of the river banks, he saw the wide-stretching Broad, the Queen of the Broads, for her beauty, size, and depth of water combined.
From The Handbook to the Rivers and Broads of Norfolk & Suffolk by Davies, G. Christopher
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
