hand's-breadth
Britishnoun
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“Every little pebble was distinct, every speckled trout, every hand’s-breadth of sand,” Mark Twain wrote of his unimpeded glimpse into Lake Tahoe’s depths in “Roughing It.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 14, 2013
No eye can venture to compass more than a hand's-breadth.
From Time Magazine Archive
I have a bed which is about a hand's-breadth wide .
From Time Magazine Archive
As night shows where her one moon is,10 A hand's-breadth of pure light and bliss, So life's night gives my lady birth And my eyes hold her!
From Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning by Myra Reynolds
A door opened on a hand's-breadth of level turf across from which rose the broken and ruined wall that once had surrounded the keep.
From Foes by Mary Johnston
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