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
There was a strange mushroom look about them; low walls of muck-daubed logs supported wide-stretching roofs of reeds, which, in their turn, supported a thick covering of soot-begrimed snow.
From In the Brooding Wild by Cullum, Ridgwell
The village should not be its parish, but rather its base of operations, from which it goes forth to all the wide-stretching territory that lies beyond.
From The Making of a Country Parish by Harlow S.
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
The garrison of Kucha was not sufficiently numerous to guard in proper strength the wide-stretching suburbs and extensive fortifications of the existing Kucha, and the cities that had in olden days stood upon its site.
From The Life of Yakoob Beg Athalik Ghazi, and Badaulet; Ameer of Kashgar by Boulger, Demetrius Charles
