wide-extending

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The latter are by far the most numerous inhabitants of its wide-extending forests.

From The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America by Kingston, William Henry Giles

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

Yet again they sought a butcher, Sought again to find a slaughterer, On the ocean's shining surface, On the wide-extending billows.

From Kalevala, Volume I (of 2) The Land of the Heroes by Kirby, W. F. (William Forsell)

One day, the sage Narada, O bull of Bharata's race, seeing the wide-extending and innumerable branches of that tree and the circumference of his trunk, approached and addressed him, saying, 'O thou art delightful!

From The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 by Ganguli, Kisari Mohan

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

From Twice Lost by Stanilard, C.J.