All 4 Uses of
breadth
in
The House of Mirth
- The landscape outspread below her seemed an enlargement of her present mood, and she found something of herself in its calmness, its breadth, its long free reaches.†
Chpt 1.6
- "I don't flatter myself that my coming has deflected your course of action by a hair's breadth."†
Chpt 1.6 *
- Miss Stepney, when her first fright had subsided, began to feel the superiority that greater breadth of mind confers.†
Chpt 1.11
- The conviction that he had been sent by Gerty, and that, whatever straits he conceived her to be in, he would never voluntarily have come to her aid, strengthened her resolve not to admit him a hair's breadth farther into her confidence.†
Chpt 2.9
Definition:
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(breadth) the distance between two sides; or the range of variety -- especially a broad range of knowledge