handsbreadth

IPA: hˈænsbrˈɛdθ

Examples of "handsbreadth" in Sentences

I remained with my face a handsbreadth from the ground while he asked questions.
The lama brought his thousand-wrinkled face once more a handsbreadth from the Englishman's.
The lama brought his thousand-wrinkled face once more a handsbreadth from the Englishman’s.
They roared and bellowed within a handsbreadth of each other as they confronted the travelers.
Albric slid his sword a handsbreadth from the scabbard, and the ghouls hissed at the sight of steel.
With my failing right eye I saw dark loam, and my hands pushing something deep into it, some kind of white seeds that I planted a handsbreadth apart.
Using a heavy piece of bark as a spade, he dug into the earth between the tree roots until he had excavated a shallow little hollow two handsbreadth across and perhaps eight inches deep.
It is a hadith qudsi, which Muslim scholars translate as a divine saying revealed by God to the Prophet Muhammad: "And if [my servant] draws nearer to me by a handsbreadth; I draw nearer to him by an armslength; and if he draws nearer to me by an armslength, I draw nearer to him by a fathom; and if he comes to me walking, I come to him running."