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
As Toby had truly said, they could not really continue on their way without passing under the wide-stretching branches of the tree where he claimed to have seen "something that looked like a wildcat."
From Afloat or, Adventures on Watery Trails by Alan Douglas
The house was frame, low and wide-stretching, with an inviting verandah about a cavernous front door that was dark and rarely open.
From Stubble by George Looms
He remembered the wide-stretching purple of the sea, the yellow shell-strewn sand, the patch of coarse grass on the bank against which Winifred Anstice leaned.
From Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes by Maud Wilder Goodwin
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 G. Christopher Davies
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