wide-extending

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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

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

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

The greater portion of the mountainsides are covered, from the water’s edge upwards to the elevation of 1500 feet, by one wide-extending forest of evergreen beeches.

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