wide-extending

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So thought Mr. Watchorn, as he turned his feverish face up to the bright, blue sky, imbibing the fine fresh air of the wide-extending downs, instead of the stale tobacco smoke of the fetid beer-shop.

From Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour by Surtees, Robert Smith

Manna asked hesitatingly, why the Priest had not taken upon himself the wide-extending benevolent work, which the Professorin was now commissioned by her father to carry on.

From Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine by Auerbach, Berthold

This is, however, only one of a series of lakes which the doctor discovered in the wide-extending province of Londa.

From Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley by Kingston, William Henry Giles

Perseveringly we trudged onwards, over table-lands and wide-extending plains and across valleys.

From Twice Lost by Stanilard, C.J.

Then it brought him out into the open country, and now Lilar, from the east, flung, over the wide-extending spikes of grain, the splendor of a high golden ball to meet him.

From Titan: A Romance v. 1 (of 2) by Richter, Jean Paul Friedrich