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
Come here," said I, leading him to the door, and pointing to the wide-stretching moor that lay before us; "it was there,—yonder, where you see that heavy cloud-shadow stealing along,—yonder we first met.
From Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas by Lever, Charles James
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.
A narrow space on the right-hand side of the channel was left clear for steam-boats, but the rest of the river was covered with the wide-stretching nets.
From Tales of the Fish Patrol by Varian, George
On either side of the fountain, and leading to the terrace at the back, were flights of marble steps, with wide-stretching stone bases upon either side towering above the grass.
From The Little Schoolmaster Mark A Spiritual Romance by Shorthouse, J. H.
