far-extending

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What a far-extending influence does each of these names represent!

From The Preacher and His Models The Yale Lectures on Preaching 1891 by Stalker, James

Then come plains, and dells, and far-extending valleys, arrayed in richest foliage; and beyond them, mountains piled on mountains, some bearing prodigious forests, others of bleak and barren aspect. 

From Wanderings in South America by Waterton, Charles

We passed through the far-extending suburbs of Sydney with their good houses and gardens.

From The Last Voyage to India and Australia, in the 'Sunbeam' by Pritchett, R. T. (Robert Taylor)

What remained of fragments scattered, Chips of wood, and broken splinters, On the bright expanse of ocean, On the far-extending billows,200 In the breeze were gently rocking, On the waves were lightly drifted.

From Kalevala, Volume I (of 2) The Land of the Heroes by Kirby, W. F. (William Forsell)

Opposite to the mouth of the bay rises the town, containing 60,000 inhabitants, with its lighthouse and far-extending suburbs.

From Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century by D'Anvers, N.