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
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.
Mrs. Barnes' gaze came back from the wide-stretching scene beside her, and rested enquiringly on the old speaker.
From The Making of Mona by Mabel Quiller-Couch
Its green forests, its impressive mountains, its rushing rivers, its white and many-colored cities, its wide-stretching shores, fringed with the foam of an azure sea, lay before the astonished eyes of our visitors.
From The Goddess of Atvatabar Being the history of the discovery of the interior world and conquest of Atvatabar by William Richard Bradshaw
And from all this wide-stretching housing-place of a vast population, there rose into my ears a continuous, dull, peculiar sound, as of the magnified stertorous breathing of a hived and stifled humanity.
From A Cry in the Wilderness by Mary E. (Mary Ella) Waller
