handbreadth
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of handbreadth
Example Sentences
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The Good God protect and bless you——I will find an opportunity to add a handbreadth of flounces to the bottom.
From The Awakening of Spring A Tragedy of Childhood by Wedekind, Frank
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)
And when the perfect fruition is come, and we enter into the great spaces of Eternity, it will seem as an handbreadth.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah by Maclaren, Alexander
And it was an handbreadth thick; and the brim thereof was wrought like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily: it received and held three thousand baths.
From The Bible Story by Hall, Newton Marshall
There was not a handbreadth of shade anywhere, and the iron handles and girds of the barred windows were nearly red-hot.
From The Firebrand by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
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