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

Mrs. Barnes' gaze came back from the wide-stretching scene beside her, and rested enquiringly on the old speaker.

From The Making of Mona by Quiller-Couch, Mabel

“Don’t want to be alone,” replied Dick lazily, as he gazed away over the wide-stretching fen-land with the moist air quivering in the glorious sunshine.

From Dick o' the Fens A Tale of the Great East Swamp by Fenn, George Manville

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

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 Fielding, H. (Harold)