Significados de handbreadth em inglês

A cart creaked past, one wheel coming within a handbreadth of Owein's head.

By what looked like a handbreadth, we cleared each other, and the race continued.

The door to the dungeons stood cracked open a handbreadth.

A handbreadth of basis is enough for me, if it be actually basis and ground!

She was kicking at him while simultaneously attempting to climb the last handbreadth up onto the platform.

Now, ''tis a handbreadth, 'tis a tale.'

You have made my days a mere handbreadth; the span of my years is as nothing before you.

Instantly his scarlet robe ballooned out tautly, until it stood a handbreadth away from his body at every point.

But the great arrow had pierced right through her shoulder, and stood out a handbreadth upon the other side.

He pulled the blade a handbreadth from its wood and leather sheath and rubbed at the symbols etched in its iron.

And when the perfect fruition is come, and we enter into the great spaces of Eternity, it will seem as an handbreadth.

And the borders of them were of one handbreadth, turned inwards round about: and upon the tables was the flesh of the offering.

Her blood tingled with the air from the wind-swept harbor, with the rush of the great engines, as by a handbreadth they plunged past her.

And so, in like manner, Moses and Elijah halted ten handbreadths from heaven.

Eighteen handbreadths was the height of the golden candlestick.

Behold, Thou hast made my days a few handbreadths, and my lifetime is nothin' in Thy sight.