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John B. Read’s lighting now makes less marvelous effects from the depths and breadths of the Met stage.

From New York Times • Jul. 1, 2014

Meg, who went shopping in the afternoon and got a ‘sweet blue muslin’, had discovered, after she had cut the breadths off, that it wouldn’t wash, which mishap made her slightly cross.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

As the width of the materials, of which a bathing gown is made, varies, it is impossible to say of how many breadths it should consist.

From Women's Bathing and Swimming Costume in the United States by Kidwell, Claudia B.

I've searched all lengths and breadths but this.

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman

So huge is the mosque that the eyes are deceived within it, and can no longer measure heights or breadths with accuracy.

From The Near East Dalmatia, Greece and Constantinople by Hichens, Robert (Robert Smythe)