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
As Toby had truly said, they could not really continue on their way without passing under the wide-stretching branches of the tree where he claimed to have seen "something that looked like a wildcat."
From Afloat or, Adventures on Watery Trails by Douglas, Alan
The second brother, without meeting with any adventure, reached a wide-stretching moor, where he stopped for his meal.
From Fairy Tales of the Slav Peasants and Herdsmen by Harding, Emily J.
He remembered the wide-stretching purple of the sea, the yellow shell-strewn sand, the patch of coarse grass on the bank against which Winifred Anstice leaned.
From Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes by Goodwin, Maud Wilder
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)
