wide-extending

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Herodotus, the father of history, was a good geographer and an experienced traveler, yet his only conception of the world was as a flat, wide-extending surface.

From The Story of Extinct Civilizations of the West by Anderson, Robert Edward

I followed him up the rigging, and saw in the far west a wide-extending dark blue line moving quickly on towards us.

From Peter Biddulph The Story of an Australian Settler by Kingston, William Henry Giles

The vast territory south of the Brazils is watered by a wide-extending branch-work of mighty streams, having as their main trunk the Rio de la Plata at their southern end.

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

The wide-extending marshes and pools are frequented by pelicans, herons, and wild geese, ducks, and flamingoes; while other birds—chiefly belonging to the Falconidae, Ardeidae, Strigidae, and Psittacidae—are numerous.

From The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America 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.