hand's-breadth

• “Hand's-breadth by hand's-breadth he climbed the wall, never looking down.”

  Spirit Gate

• “Iron spikes, spaced about a hand's-breadth apart along the top, ruled out that idea.”

  Dragons Of Summer Flame

• “After all, there is a beak fully capable of biting through his spine less than a hand's-breadth from his nose.”

  The Eagle And The Nightingale

• “Everywhere but here the buildings stood so close together that there wasn't a hand's-breadth of space between them.”

  Prison Of Souls

• “She was tall, a hand's-breadth taller than he, and erect as one of the lilies she clasped.”

  A Rare Benedictine

• “If he could have stood erect he would have been a hand's-breadth taller than his sister, but thus hunched he looked even shorter.”

  The Pilgrim of Hate

• “The long knife quivered in its neck, point and a foot of blade showing on one side, and the hilt and a hand's-breadth of steel on the other, but it only seemed to madden the giant reptile.”

  Conan the Adventurer

• “On this wreath rested a crown of about a hand's-breadth, decorated with jewels and surmounted by three bands of metal crowned by a knob.”

  The Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary

• “The lilies wavered what seemed but a hand's-breadth from him.”

  The Coast of Chance

• “This span of days, this hand's-breadth of existence, is too palpably fragmentary.”

  Problems of Immanence: studies critical and constructive

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