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
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
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
Upon a barren, wide-stretching tableland stood a cluster of adobe huts.
From Jessica Trent: Her Life on a Ranch by Raymond, Evelyn
The slopes of the Armenian highlands are clothed with fine forests, and the vine is grown at their base, while on the wide-stretching steppes the Turko-Tatars pasture cattle, horses and sheep.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various
