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
Stretching away from it were fine park-lands, and beyond these were wide-stretching woods.
From The Everlasting Arms by Hocking, Joseph
His father's ambition for him was that he should be a great conqueror, that he should lead his troops against the neighbouring kings and overcome them, and in time make for himself a wide-stretching empire.
From The Soul of a People by Fielding, H. (Harold)
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.
“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
