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
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
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 Waller, Mary E. (Mary Ella)
The garrison of Kucha was not sufficiently numerous to guard in proper strength the wide-stretching suburbs and extensive fortifications of the existing Kucha, and the cities that had in olden days stood upon its site.
From The Life of Yakoob Beg Athalik Ghazi, and Badaulet; Ameer of Kashgar by Boulger, Demetrius Charles
On either side of the fountain, and leading to the terrace at the back, were flights of marble steps, with wide-stretching stone bases upon either side towering above the grass.
From The Little Schoolmaster Mark A Spiritual Romance by Shorthouse, J. H.
