Adjective : wide-spreading showers; wide-spreading ivy. ,a wide-spreading infection.    From Dictionary.com. 

Is borne o'er the deserts and wide-spreading main.    From Wordnik.com.  [Everlasting Pearl One of China's Women] Reference

Where nought is the same but the wide-spreading sky.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet"] Reference

From his wide-spreading horns; his horns bright shone.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II] Reference

The wide-spreading pond and the mill which stood by it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romance of Old New England Rooftrees] Reference

The wide-spreading pond, and the mill that stood by it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home Pastimes; or Tableaux Vivants] Reference

Where are the noble parks and the wide-spreading groves?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Parks for the People Proceedings of a Public Meeting held at Faneuil Hall, June 7, 1876] Reference

Presently he hid behind a wide-spreading tree, and waited for.    From Wordnik.com.  [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference

MacRoth went his way to survey the great wide-spreading plain of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Táin Bó Cúalnge] Reference

The same wide-spreading influence impeded also the resources of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference

But after a time the branches loosen up and form a wide-spreading crown.    From Wordnik.com.  [Studies of Trees] Reference

Form and size: A medium-sized tree with a short trunk and wide-spreading top.    From Wordnik.com.  [Studies of Trees] Reference

As she came down the hill to the cabin she stopped to look at the wide-spreading ocean.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where the Sun Swings North] Reference

These trees grow very large and have wide-spreading branches about fifty feet from the ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Journey to Puerto Rico : for Intermediate and Upper Grades For Intermediate and Upper Grades] Reference

But as they stopped for a brief rest under the shadow of a wide-spreading beach tree Rebby said.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Little Maid of Old Maine] Reference

Beneath the wide-spreading lebbek a low table was laid for luncheon with two wicker chairs beside it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Palace of Darkened Windows] Reference

Again, in the warm twilight of evening, you hear the laugh and song go up under the wide-spreading elms.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.] Reference

He feared that the wide-spreading branches of the falling tree might hit some of the party of Overlanders.    From Wordnik.com.  [Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders in the Great North Woods] Reference

It was opposite the gymnasium, under the wide-spreading oaks that gave shade to that quarter of the campus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ruth Fielding At College or The Missing Examination Papers] Reference

They had been walking while he talked, and came to a halt beneath a wide-spreading, though not very tall, tree.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Matter of Honor A Terran Empire novel] Reference

Every discovery, and each step in social and moral evolution, produces its wide-spreading train of consequences.    From Wordnik.com.  [Are the Effects of Use and Disuse Inherited? An Examination of the View Held by Spencer and Darwin] Reference

On a knoll the others saw a low-roofed, but wide-spreading, bungalow sort of structure, with corrals and sheds beyond.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nan Sherwood at Rose Ranch] Reference

He had lured away, and placed another in the same position, so wide-spreading can a single evil step be in its results.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Captain's Bunk A Story for Boys] Reference

We pulled up for a while to give the poor creatures time to breathe, and for us to see the wide-spreading forests around.    From Wordnik.com.  [Through Finland in Carts] Reference

We have looked with pleasure upon many a long vista in the past, and on many a wide-spreading prospect of varied character.    From Wordnik.com.  [Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter] Reference

At noon the marsh deer with wide-spreading antlers sought them out as the only available protection from the blistering sunlight.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Black Phantom] Reference

Jacanas, birds with wide-spreading toes, ran nimbly over the lily pads on the surface, seemingly skating across the water itself.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Black Phantom] Reference

"What shall I do?" she said, standing close to the trunk of a pine tree that rose straight and tall with wide-spreading branches.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Little Maid of Old Philadelphia] Reference

Beneath their wide-spreading boughs there is a gloom almost of twilight, showing peeps here and there of deep purple distances beyond.    From Wordnik.com.  [Knights of Art; stories of the Italian painters] Reference

From wide-spreading chandeliers, with their pendent, pear-shaped crystals, a thousand candles threw a flood of light upon the scene, as.    From Wordnik.com.  [Under the Rose] Reference

It was a wide-spreading house of colonial build, snowy white with green shutters and overrun with climbing roses and honeysuckle vines.    From Wordnik.com.  [At the Time Appointed] Reference

Some moving object caught his eye, not upon the ground as might have been expected, but up in the branches of a wide-spreading oak tree.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Banner Boy Scouts on a Tour, or, The Mystery of Rattlesnake Mountain] Reference

So to the Welsh must be given the honor of having sown a seed from which has grown the wide-spreading tree we call the Arthurian Legend.    From Wordnik.com.  [English Literature for Boys and Girls] Reference

Form and size: The white oak grows into a large tree with a wide-spreading, massive crown, dissolving into long, heavy, twisted branches.    From Wordnik.com.  [Studies of Trees] Reference

"I'm so glad to feel you on my arm again, Hibbert!" said Paul, as he led him to a basket-seat, with cushions, beneath a wide-spreading elm.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hero of Garside School] Reference

Sure enough one of the cacti, with wide-spreading leaves which trailed on the ground for several yards, proved to be the seat of the virulent fumes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adventures in Many Lands] Reference