All 6 Uses of
breadth
in
A Tale of Two Cities
- So with the three passengers shut up in the narrow compass of one lumbering old mail coach; they were mysteries to one another, as complete as if each had been in his own coach and six, or his own coach and sixty, with the breadth of a county between him and the next.†
Chpt 1.3
- He was a dark man altogether, with good eyes and a good bold breadth between them.†
Chpt 1.5 *
- This, in combination with the lifting of her darkly defined eyebrows over her toothpick by the breadth of a line, suggested to her husband that he would do well to look round the shop among the customers, for any new customer who had dropped in while he stepped over the way.†
Chpt 1.5
- When this interchange of Christian name was effected, Madame Defarge, picking her teeth with her toothpick, coughed another grain of cough, and raised her eyebrows by the breadth of another line.†
Chpt 1.5
- At this second interchange of the Christian name, Madame Defarge, still using her toothpick with profound composure, coughed another grain of cough, and raised her eyebrows by the breadth of another line.†
Chpt 1.5
- Chateau and hut, stone face and dangling figure, the red stain on the stone floor, and the pure water in the village well—thousands of acres of land—a whole province of France—all France itself—lay under the night sky, concentrated into a faint hair-breadth line.†
Chpt 2.16
Definition:
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(breadth) the distance between two sides; or the range of variety -- especially a broad range of knowledge