Meanings of wide champaign in English

They sat later-thegentlemen by their wine-onthe stone terrace overlooking the wide champaign.

Here however,' and the juvenile looked steadfastly down upon the plain of flesh, the wide champaign beneath him-'herewe have promise of better fare.'

The rising wind, which, sweeping over the wide champaign, came to moan in the hill-side trees, seemed to sing the dirge of that long-past life.