Both Uses of
breadth
in
The Mill on the Floss
- Chapter II Aunt Glegg Learns the Breadth of Bob's Thumb While Maggie's life-struggles had lain almost entirely within her own soul, one shadowy army fighting another, and the slain shadows forever rising again, Tom was engaged in a dustier, noisier warfare, grappling with more substantial obstacles, and gaining more definite conquests.†
Chpt 5.2 *
- Lucy hurried out of the room, but Maggie did not take the opportunity of opening her book; she let it fall on her knees, while her eyes wandered to the window, where she could see the sunshine falling on the rich clumps of spring flowers and on the long hedge of laurels, and beyond, the silvery breadth of the dear old Floss, that at this distance seemed to be sleeping in a morning holiday.†
Chpt 6.2
Definition:
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(breadth) the distance between two sides; or the range of variety -- especially a broad range of knowledge