wide-stretching
Example Sentences
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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
When the tiny spider standing at the center of its wide-stretching and intricate web, woven for destruction, chances to touch any thread of the web, immediately that thread vibrates to the uttermost extremity.
From A Man's Value to Society Studies in Self Culture and Character by Hillis, Newell Dwight
Mrs. Barnes' gaze came back from the wide-stretching scene beside her, and rested enquiringly on the old speaker.
From The Making of Mona by Quiller-Couch, Mabel
The house was frame, low and wide-stretching, with an inviting verandah about a cavernous front door that was dark and rarely open.
From Stubble by Looms, George
He, who has firmly established the tottering earth and arrested the quivering mountains; he who has fixed the extent of the wide-stretching atmosphere, and who has propped up the sky,—O man, it is Indra!
From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 by Various
