Definition of "wide-stretched" [wide-stretched]

• Large; extensive.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "She felt his hands going for her throat, saw his eyes staring down at her, spittle at the corners of his wide-stretched mouth."
• "Companions; Some had concealed themselves beneath a Table, on which the remnants of a feast were visible; While Others with gaping mouths and eyes wide-stretched pointed to a Figure, supposed to have created this disturbance."
• "The ground on which the battle was fought, was a level plain — so level, that from the tumuli you saw the waving line of mountains on the wide-stretched horizon; yet the intervening space was unvaried by the least irregularity, save such undulations as resembled the waves of the sea."