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
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 Leblanc, Maurice
The second brother, without meeting with any adventure, reached a wide-stretching moor, where he stopped for his meal.
From Fairy Tales of the Slav Peasants and Herdsmen by Harding, Emily J.
He remembered the wide-stretching purple of the sea, the yellow shell-strewn sand, the patch of coarse grass on the bank against which Winifred Anstice leaned.
From Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes by Goodwin, Maud Wilder
