What does wide-spread mean?
Wide-spread means Alternative spelling of widespread..
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Alternative spelling of widespread..
High brick walls stand where once stood that rosy and graceful tree; and if there be one object more dreary than another, it is a high, blank brick wall: as little vestige is there left of the wide-spread common.
"[…] a danger that the strongest and wisest of mankind, in striving to attain to a complete mastery over Nature, should destroy her simplest and widest-spread gifts […]"
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Wide-spread means Alternative spelling of widespread..
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High brick walls stand where once stood that rosy and graceful tree; and if there be one object more dreary than another, it is a high, blank brick wall: as little vestige is there left of the wide-spread common.
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