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
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The house was frame, low and wide-stretching, with an inviting verandah about a cavernous front door that was dark and rarely open.
From Stubble by George Looms
A narrow space on the right-hand side of the channel was left clear for steam-boats, but the rest of the river was covered with the wide-stretching nets.
From Tales of the Fish Patrol by George Varian
The old house stood out boldly on the hillside, while the wide-stretching park-lands were plainly to be seen.
From The Everlasting Arms by Joseph Hocking
Come here," said I, leading him to the door, and pointing to the wide-stretching moor that lay before us; "it was there,—yonder, where you see that heavy cloud-shadow stealing along,—yonder we first met.
From Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas by Charles James Lever