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
His father's ambition for him was that he should be a great conqueror, that he should lead his troops against the neighbouring kings and overcome them, and in time make for himself a wide-stretching empire.
From The Soul of a People by H. (Harold) Fielding
About five miles from the city lay, in the midst of a wood--a former hunting castle of the prince--a wide-stretching building.
From The Student-Life of Germany by William Howitt
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 Maurice Leblanc
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
