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 are mountains, and sea, and grassland, and trees, and a wide-stretching sky, and white pebbles at my feet.

From My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year by Jowett, John Henry

“Don’t want to be alone,” replied Dick lazily, as he gazed away over the wide-stretching fen-land with the moist air quivering in the glorious sunshine.

From Dick o' the Fens A Tale of the Great East Swamp by Fenn, George Manville

How like to reality were the gigantic thistles, the ombu-trees, the wide-stretching pampas, the ostriches, the wild horses and other animals, the gauchos and their costumes—in short, everything delineated.

From The Finger of Fate A Romance by Reid, Mayne

Stretching away from it were fine park-lands, and beyond these were wide-stretching woods.

From The Everlasting Arms by Hocking, Joseph