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

They replied with their musketry, and it may well be supposed how terrific appeared that blaze of fire extending throughout the whole length of that wide-stretching line.

From Hurricane Hurry by Kingston, William Henry Giles

There was a strange mushroom look about them; low walls of muck-daubed logs supported wide-stretching roofs of reeds, which, in their turn, supported a thick covering of soot-begrimed snow.

From In the Brooding Wild by Cullum, Ridgwell

That healing flood is like the ocean fulness, and it will fill every bay, and cove, and creek in the wide-stretching shore of human need.

From My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year by Jowett, John Henry

Stretching away from it were fine park-lands, and beyond these were wide-stretching woods.

From The Everlasting Arms by Hocking, Joseph