wide-extended

He suggested that Ararat must represent a primordial island, from which all created species had dispersed: “If we therefore enquire into the original appearance of the earth, we shall find reason to conclude, that instead of the present wide-extended regions, one small island only was in the beginning raised above the surface of the waters.”

The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

He suggested that Ararat must represent a primordial island, from which all created species had dispersed: “If we therefore enquire into the original appearance of the earth, we shall find reason to conclude, that instead of the present wide-extended regions, one small island only was in the beginning raised above the surface of the waters.”

The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

He will embrace a pure system, from its abstract truth, its beauty, its simplicity, and its promise of wide-extended benefit; unless custom has turned poison into food, he will hate the brutal pleasures of the chase by instinct; it will be a contemplation full of horror, and disappointment to his mind, that beings capable of the gentlest and most admirable sympathies should take delight in the death-pangs and last convulsions of dying animals.

The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley 2003

At the same time, he assured them that he had “no lust after power, but I wish with as much fervency as any man upon this wide-extended continent for an opportunity of turning the sword into the ploughshare.”

Angel in the Whirlwind Benson Bobrick 1997

At the same time, he assured them that he had “no lust after power, but I wish with as much fervency as any man upon this wide-extended continent for an opportunity of turning the sword into the ploughshare.”

Angel in the Whirlwind Benson Bobrick 1997

Breathless messengers had borne the evil tidings to Montcalm, and far and near his wide-extended camp resounded with the rolling of alarm-drums and the din of startled preparation.

The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book Ontario. Ministry of Education

Breathless messengers had borne the evil tidings to Montcalm, and far and near his wide-extended camp resounded with the rolling of alarm drums and the din of startled preparation.

Elson Grammar School Literature v4 William H. Elson

From this entrance, a road, some five or six feet wide had been cut out into the middle of the thicket, which was a large open area covered with grass and shaded by bushy trees, of small altitude, with wide-extended branches.

Eveline Mandeville The Horse Thief Rival Alvin Addison

Thou knowest thy body to be a small part of that wide-extended earth which thou everywhere beholdest; the moisture contained in it, thou also knowest to be a small portion of that mighty mass of waters whereof seas themselves are but a part, while the rest of the elements contribute, out of their abundance, to thy formation.

Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life

As the nauseous odors of a slaughterhouse, carried on the breeze, pollute the air in every direction, so the evil influences emanating from these wide-extended battlefields taint the atmosphere of the whole political world.

New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 April-September, 1915 Various