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

The land is largely composed of the pantanals, the flat, wide-stretching marshes through which the Paraguay and its affluents wind.

From A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open by Roosevelt, Theodore

Peace, the peace of well-being, peculiar to late summer, pervaded the wide-stretching level fields.

From Regina or the Sins of the Fathers by Sudermann, Hermann