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

Come here," said I, leading him to the door, and pointing to the wide-stretching moor that lay before us; "it was there,—yonder, where you see that heavy cloud-shadow stealing along,—yonder we first met.

From Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas by Lever, Charles James

Its green forests, its impressive mountains, its rushing rivers, its white and many-colored cities, its wide-stretching shores, fringed with the foam of an azure sea, lay before the astonished eyes of our visitors.

From The Goddess of Atvatabar Being the history of the discovery of the interior world and conquest of Atvatabar by Bradshaw, William Richard

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

“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