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

When the tiny spider standing at the center of its wide-stretching and intricate web, woven for destruction, chances to touch any thread of the web, immediately that thread vibrates to the uttermost extremity.

From A Man's Value to Society Studies in Self Culture and Character by Hillis, Newell Dwight

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

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

And from all this wide-stretching housing-place of a vast population, there rose into my ears a continuous, dull, peculiar sound, as of the magnified stertorous breathing of a hived and stifled humanity.

From A Cry in the Wilderness by Waller, Mary E. (Mary Ella)