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
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
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
About five miles from the city lay, in the midst of a wood--a former hunting castle of the prince--a wide-stretching building.
From The Student-Life of Germany by William Howitt
On a hill beyond the stream we mark a large white-belfried building, relieved against a dark background of wide-stretching timber-land.
From Eventide A Series of Tales and Poems by Effie Afton
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