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 image of desolation and eery bleakness had its source in the wide-stretching sands, the unforgettable sea beyond, and particularly the inlet, or lagoon, up above the natural dam of stone.
From Kastle Krags A Story of Mystery by Absalom Martin
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 H. (Harold) Fielding
When the tiny spider standing at the center of its wide-stretching and intricate web, woven for destruction, chances to touch any thread of the web, immediately that thread vibrates to the uttermost extremity.
From A Man's Value to Society Studies in Self Culture and Character by Newell Dwight Hillis
Upon a barren, wide-stretching tableland stood a cluster of adobe huts.
From Jessica Trent: Her Life on a Ranch by Evelyn Raymond
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