far and wide
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Far and wide, diplomats remarked that for the League to have already accumulated 1,000 such documents, constituted no insignificant tribute to its prestige.
From Time Magazine Archive
Its slow march tune was catchy, and its lyrics fitted Berlin's melancholy mood: Far and wide as the eye can wander, Heath and bog are everywhere.
From Time Magazine Archive
Far and wide they stretch forth their claws of death; and well might the poor natives call them devils of the night, or fiends of the clouds.
From Memoirs of the Extraordinary Military Career of John Shipp Late a Lieut. in His Majesty's 87th Regiment by Shipp, John
Far and wide as the great breeder of Southdown sheep, became known the name of Jason Goodell, and his flocks and barns grew with acres steadily.
From The Cassowary What Chanced in the Cleft Mountains by Waterloo, Stanley
Far and wide they went, but could find no trace of Isota.
From The Warden of the Plains and Other Stories of Life in the Canadian North-west by Maclean, John
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