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

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

It was a beautiful old garden and had once formed part of the wide-stretching estate where people were in the habit, at the end of the eighteenth century, of going to drink the Passy waters.

From The Golden Triangle The Return of Ars?ne Lupin by Leblanc, Maurice

The land is largely composed of the pantanals, the flat, wide-stretching marshes through which the Paraguay and its affluents wind.

From A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open by Roosevelt, Theodore

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)