handbreadth
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of handbreadth
Example Sentences
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The room is so richly decorated that scarce a handbreadth of the surface is free from ornament.
From Southern Spain by Calvert, A. F. (Albert Frederick)
In a hundred years, not one handbreadth of all those vineyards will belong to those who rake and dig there.
From Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine by Auerbach, Berthold
They had spread a handbreadth of mainsail, but the jib was blown out of the boltropes by one big swoop of wind and carried down to leeward, looking like a giant's shirt.
From Sheila of Big Wreck Cove A Story of Cape Cod by Owen, R. Emmett (Robert Emmett)
A handbreadth of basis is enough for me, if it be actually basis and ground!
From Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none by Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm
Is it that His 'years are throughout all generations,' and 'my days are as an handbreadth'?
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John by Maclaren, Alexander
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