The length of breadth of a finger used as a linear measure.
1 Its blade was missing, snapped off a finger 's breadth from the guard.
2 We saw a finger 's breadth of battle area; a pin-point of army front.
3 Should they swerve from them even a finger 's breadth they would no longer be themselves.
4 The scalding steam barely missed my eye and blistered my brow a finger 's breadth above it.
5 Often, they are face to face, separated by a space no wider than a finger 's breadth .
6 She pushed back the lid a finger 's breadth and he saw the pink satin for a second.
7 A break in the contact, of a finger 's breadth , is as effectual as one of a mile.
8 The wood was inflexible as iron and all his efforts only availed to move it one finger 's breadth .
9 Just think, if that cut had been only a finger 's breadth lower-youwould have lost your eyes, and oh!
10 He was no longer than a man's forefinger, and the blade of the hatchet at his belt was but a finger 's breadth .
11 Carefully sewed up in his waistband was found a letter, of a finger 's breadth , written in cipher, and sealed with the Governor-General's seal.
12 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.
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