Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a wide view or survey.
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Examples
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One kingly, broad-eyed warrior is the combatant in the chariot.
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Blue and pied and green, purple, grey and white and black mantles; a kingly, white-grey, broad-eyed hero in the van of that company; wavy, grizzled hair upon him; a blue-purple cloak about him; a leaf-shaped brooch with ornamentation of gold in the cloak over his breast; a shield, stoutly braced with buckles of red copper; yellow sandals he wore; a large, strange-fashioned sword along his shoulder.
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If we are satisfied that these implements of bronze were the work of the artisans of Atlantis -- of the antediluvians -- they must acquire additional and extraordinary interest in our eyes, and we turn to them to earn something of the habits and customs of "that great, original, broad-eyed, sunken race."
Atlantis : the antediluvian world Ignatius Donnelly 1866
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