hand's-breadth
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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
I crossed a moor, with a name of its own And a certain use in the world, no doubt, Yet a hand's-breadth of it shines alone 'Mid the blank miles round about: 4.
From An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry by Corson, Hiram
Beneath his head a dark ooze spread a hand's-breadth on the trail.
From Sundown Slim by Fischer, Anton Otto
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