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Sentences starting with breadth

Breadth and length being specified, we both of us know quite well, before the master has begun his work, what we shall receive when it is finished. [10]

Sentences ending with breadth

They were not ten feet from him, and swords flashed before his eyes, but still he did not stir a hair's breadth. [11]
He was neither tall nor short, but of a good breadth. [9]
Within, the greater souls alone were calm, and a man's worth was set down to a hair's breadth. [9]
And considering it polite to return the young count's compliment, Ilagin looked at his borzois and picked out Milka who attracted his attention by her breadth. [2]
Mr. Dickens saw our ancestors bowed in a task that had been too great for other blood,--the task of bringing into civilization in the compass of a century a wilderness three thousand miles it breadth. [9]
The wood was inflexible as iron and all his efforts only availed to move it one finger's breadth. [10]
He was broad in the shoulders, and the clothes he wore rather enhanced this breadth. [9]
Woe betide you if you fail to do it, or disobey me by a hair's breadth. [12]
He tried to get away from them, but they would not for an instant let his shoulder move a hair's breadth. [2]
But Bob reflected, as he walked back to his rooms in the dark through the snow-laden streets, that Cynthia, young though she might be, possessed principles from which no love would sway her a hair's breadth. [9]

Sentences containing breadth two or more times

They were from fifty to one hundred yards long, and they gradually tapered from a nine-log breadth at their sterns, to a three-log breadth at their bow-ends. [5]

More example sentences with the word breadth in them

He was well-figured, with a hand of peculiar whiteness, suggesting in its breadth more the man of action than of meditation. [11]
By six o'clock we were pretty high up in the air, and the view of lake and mountains had greatly grown in breadth and interest. [5]
In his pages we find characters and scenes minutely set forth in elaborate and characteristic detail, which is relieved and heightened in effect by the artistic breadth of light and shade thrown across the broader prospects of history. [6]
Oldring appeared, and Venters had one glimpse of his great breadth and bulk, his gold-buckled belt with hanging guns, his high-top boots with gold spurs. [13]
Joseph Twichell, who, unlike Howells, had no scruples about Mark's 'Elizabethan breadth of parlance. [5]
Such delicacy of treatment, with such breadth and force of effect, is hard to match anywhere, and we know him by his style at sight. [6]
This River of Topahanock, seemeth in breadth not much lesse than that we dwell upon. [4]
Now, I wish to know what the Judge can charge upon me, with respect to decisions of the Supreme Court, which does not lie in all its length, breadth, and proportions at his own door. [7]
His name seems to have gone the length and breadth of the land. [9]
The Colonel seemed to be all breadth, like a card. [9]
If they have three fingers' breadth of cloth about them, they consider themselves elegantly dressed.--But come, sit down--there, at my feet. [10]
I would rather this tongue should wither than that I should unchivalrously permit it to deviate one straw's breadth from the truth in order to attain a selfish purpose. [10]
The Mongolians of the plains of northern Asia, according to Pallas, have wonderfully perfect senses; and Prichard believes that the great breadth of their skulls across the zygomas follows from their highly-developed sense organs. [1]
In front sloped the lay of ground with its purple breadth split by the white trail. [13]
Just think, if that cut had been only a finger's breadth lower--you would have lost your eyes, and oh! [10]
The breadth of that boat [consults Admiral], two hundred feet. [5]
Petrus had been talking to his grown up elder sons; they were tall men, but their father was even taller than they, and of unusual breadth of shoulder. [10]
Her breadth was still considerable, but the flesh, with which she had moved about so briskly a few months ago, now seemed to have become an oppressive burden. [10]
Twichell and Clemens spent four glorious days tramping the length and breadth of the beautiful island, and remembered it always as one of their happiest adventures. [5]
He does not send me his intellectual measurements, and he might as well have sent to a Boston tailor for a coat, without any hint of his dimensions in length, breadth, and thickness. [6]
You would have said he was a man of one set idea, though the head had a breadth sorting little with narrowness of purpose. [11]
There was one place where an eighteen-inch breadth of light masonry had been added to the verge of the path, and as there was a very sharp turn here, a panel of fencing had been set up there at some time, as a protection. [5]
At noon the people were permitted to rest, but there was not a hand's breadth of shade where they sought repose. [10]
Have it your own way, But the sight of your face in the patent outsides of the country press would be worth half a dozen subscribers in every school district throughout the length and breadth of this fair land. [8]
No deviation even one hair's breadth, no swifter or slower movement for the unresting wanderers. [10]
Now I was on my feet, pacing restlessly the short breadth of the room, trying to shut out from my mind the horrors of which my ears gave testimony. [9]
On each side of the trench, the earth was cut out to a breadth of about two and a half feet, and this did duty for bedsteads and couches. [2]
The main part of the steering is done at the bow, with a pole; the three-log breadth there furnishes room for only the steersman, for these little logs are not larger around than an average young lady's waist. [5]
We are conscious of all this, so much breadth and atmosphere has the artist given his little history of half a dozen people in this struggling world. [4]
But this background of a great city, of an empire, is not essential to the breadth of treatment upon which we insist in fiction, to broad characterization, to the play of imagination about common things which transfigures them into the immortal beauty of artistic creations. [4]
Your name does not occur throughout the length and breadth of it. [9]
A pilgrim without money, whether he be a Protestant or a Catholic, can travel the length and breadth of Palestine, and in the midst of her desert wastes find wholesome food and a clean bed every night, in these buildings. [5]
As if that money could add a hair's breadth to happiness or peace of mind. [2]
It is twenty-five miles long, and from one to three in breadth, a free growth of stately pines, whose boughs are full of music and sweet odors,--a succession of lovely glades and avenues, with miles and miles of drives over the springy turf. [4]
The miracle doesn't lie in what Paul saw, but in the whole man transformed, made incandescent, journeying tirelessly to the end of his days up and down the length and breadth of the empire, labouring, as he says, more abundantly than they all. [9]
Let us have it, in all its dimensions, length, breadth, and thickness. [6]
He had no inherent greatness, no breadth of policy. [11]
Yet it has in it the breadth of life itself, the depth and passion of all our human struggle in the world-a little story with a vast horizon. [4]
At any rate, I know this, between Tull and death then there was not the breadth of the littlest hair. [13]
There was in him a dispassionateness, a breadth, which seemed most strange in a trifler of the Court, in an exquisite--for such he was. [11]
Man or woman had found in Leicester the delicate and intrepid gamester, exquisite in the choice of detail, masterful in the breadth of method. [11]
It shows a good breadth of front-yard before its door, as its owner shows a respectable expanse of a clean shirt-front. [6]
A man of gigantic height and awful breadth of shoulders, with a hand as big as a shovel, there was nothing mean or little in his soul. [4]
Should they swerve from them even a finger's breadth they would no longer be themselves. [10]
You see, the first and most important detail is the length, then the breadth, and then the depth; the depth of that boat was [consults again] --the Admiral says it was a flat boat. [5]
He had breadth enough of view to see that there was nothing so very exceptional in this educational trader's dealings with his subordinates, but he had also manly feeling enough to attack the particular individual instance of wrong before him. [6]
He spoke very distinctly, however, and if his nationality could be discovered in his speech it was only in a certain richness and breadth of tone. [5]
Victoria sat motionless, but her eyes followed irresistibly the lines of power in the tall figure against the sky--the breadth of shoulder and slimness of hip and length of limb typical of the men who had conquered and held this land for their descendants. [9]
In spontaneity, freshness, breadth of conception, and joyous vigor, it belongs to the springtime of literature. [4]
The sense of breadth and vastness, and the inspiration of pure air could be a very gospel of strength, beauty, and courage, to such an one--for a time. [11]
Occasionally the mist became so thin that a long line of coast and a great breadth of sea were visible, with the white sails drifting. [4]
It scarcely need be said that it is not multitude of figures on a literary canvas that secures breadth of treatment. [4]
Here it was, barring his passage the whole length and breadth of the South American continent, and he couldn't get by it. [5]
Only so far as the longing for the beautiful permits do even the better ones remain faithful to Nature, not a finger's breadth more. [10]
But if you are, provided you have any strength with breadth of will, do not despair. [5]
The introductory chapters are of that elephantine facetiousness which pleased our great-grandfathers, but which is exceedingly tedious to modern taste; and the humor of the book occasionally has a breadth that is indelicate to our apprehension, though it perhaps did not shock our great-grandmothers. [4]
It was long and narrow, but lofty, almost symmetrical, and of more nearly equal breadth in its anterior and posterior regions than many or most heads. [6]
Leicester's dark face and its sardonic look, his lithe figure, the nervous strength of his bearing, were in strong contrast to the bulking breadth, the perspiring robustness of Lempriere of Rozel. [11]
Name the length and breadth of the streams of lava which issued from the Skaptar Jokul in the eruption of 1783. [5]
Yet in build, and at any rate in height and breadth of shoulders, there was some resemblance between him and the Gaul. [10]
He was not an organizer, but a power behind many organizers, inspiring them with lofty motive, giving breadth, to their views, always tending to become narrow through concentration on their special objects. [6]
On the shore above the Horseshoe they first comprehended the breadth, the great sweep, of the rapids. [4]
There is even a mill down there, where there is breadth enough for a building; and altogether, the ravine is not so delivered over to the power of darkness as it used to be. [4]
He knew to a hair's breadth the social value of every human being in the parish. [11]
It was but a hair's breadth from the wire. [11]
Do not lean a hair's breadth against your own feelings, or your judgment of the public service, on the idea of gratifying me. [7]
I know of a better mistress for you--Art--to whom belongs everything of beauty that the Most High has created--In Art in all its breadth and fulness, not fettered and narrowed by any Agapitus. [10]
It was of "greater breadth than common. [5]

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