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Значения термина finger's breadth на английском

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The length of breadth of a finger used as a linear measure.

dedo da mão
Использование термина finger's breadth на английском
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Its blade was missing, snapped off a finger's breadth from the guard.
Thief of lives
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We saw a finger's breadth of battle area; a pin-point of army front.
My Year of the War / Including an Account of Experiences with th...
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Should they swerve from them even a finger's breadth they would no longer be themselves.
The Story of My Life — Volume 06
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The scalding steam barely missed my eye and blistered my brow a finger's breadth above it.
My Boyhood
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Often, they are face to face, separated by a space no wider than a finger's breadth.
Bramble-Bees and Others
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She pushed back the lid a finger's breadth and he saw the pink satin for a second.
The Heart of Rome: A Tale of the "Lost Water"
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A break in the contact, of a finger's breadth, is as effectual as one of a mile.
Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. John Chapters I to XIV
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The wood was inflexible as iron and all his efforts only availed to move it one finger's breadth.
An Egyptian Princess — Volume 10
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Just think, if that cut had been only a finger's breadth lower-youwould have lost your eyes, and oh!
Serapis — Volume 02
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He was no longer than a man's forefinger, and the blade of the hatchet at his belt was but a finger's breadth.
National Epics
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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.
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 26: 1577, part III
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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.
Arachne — Volume 05
Translations for finger's breadth
португальский
dedo da mão
каталонский
dit
испанский
dedo