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  • You didn't try out last year, did you?" asked Harry, taking note of the breadth of McLaggen and thinking that he would probably block all three goal hoops without even moving.†   (source)
  • Celaena threw her dagger, and the blade clanged as it landed a hair's breadth from the one she'd already embedded in the bull's-eye.†   (source)
  • The bulk of the rampart holds her in its breadth.†   (source)
  • I remember Julian's map, the breadth of the greater world beyond our country.†   (source)
  • I continue to underestimate the breadth of your ignorance.†   (source)
  • What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the Galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through and still know where his towel is, is clearly a man to be reckoned with.†   (source)
  • Up, up, the blade inched until it was only a hair's breadth—the expression "hair's breadth" here means "a teeny-tiny measurement"—away from Charles's foot.†   (source)
  • He stands in the middle of the lane and tells the world to step outside, he's ready to fight, ready to fight and die for Ireland, which is more than he can say for the men of Limerick, who are known the length and breadth of the world for collaborating with the perfidious Saxons.†   (source)
  • I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach….†   (source)
  • It seemed that before today he had never really understood the breadth of his responsibility to the Overlook.†   (source)
  • It missed by a finger's breadth and hissed into darkness.†   (source)
  • For the breadth of a river we stared without speaking.†   (source)
  • "It seemed to me," he wrote, in a letter to John in Brookline, "that at the least it must have been extremely disquieting, gaudy & childish, if not savage and an injury to the Exposition, through its disturbance of dignity, and injury to breadth, unity & composure."†   (source)
  • From below, it looked as though even a squirrel would have had trouble jumping from the tree onto the house, for the breadth of that small branch was no bigger than my mother's wrist.†   (source)
  • She carries money in a suitcase the length and breadth of Latin America.†   (source)
  • He was taller than she was by almost a hand's breadth.†   (source)
  • Estha settled against a distant pillar and they sat through the performance like this, separated by the breadth of the kuthambalam, but joined by a story.†   (source)
  • He has such breadth of, he has such a wide range of … of things that interest him.†   (source)
  • The room was so full of books there wasn't more than a palm's breadth of wall visible in the entire room.†   (source)
  • But in the crowd leaving the church she felt him so close, so clearly, that an irresistible power forced her to look over her shoulder as she walked along the central nave and then, a hand's breadth from her eyes, she saw those icy eyes, that livid face, those lips petrified by the terror of love.†   (source)
  • He shook his head sharply, focusing his attention on the evidences that spoke of profound depth and breadth in this Fremen culture that had swallowed them.†   (source)
  • And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them.†   (source)
  • They circled overhead a half-dozen times in arcs that took in the entire breadth of the docks, then settled on the swells to seaward.†   (source)
  • These are the mathematical properties, or, in other words, the kinds of things that are measurable, such as length, breadth, and depth.†   (source)
  • They might have been calling each other across that breadth of water, seeking for each other as the darkness relentlessly fell.†   (source)
  • … He was running at my side, out of breadth, at the end of his strength, at his wit's end.†   (source)
  • Though his voice is cool and flat as a legionnaire's, he doesn't have the breadth and height of a Martial.†   (source)
  • If the punt did pass under the bridge without sticking, it would do so by no more than a claw's breadth.†   (source)
  • The breadth of his activity and experience is narrowed by the limitations of his relatively weak, sluggish body.†   (source)
  • In his regulation dress uniform shoes he was about six feet five and the breadth of his shoulders filled the doorway.†   (source)
  • So close and yet so far, she felt as though she were in a dream; there, but not there, within a hair's breadth but not reaching it.†   (source)
  • As I outline the last three weeks, I notice the breadth of his shoulders.†   (source)
  • In breadth it looked to be no more than two or three furlongs at the widest point.†   (source)
  • Sometimes in the evening I would go out to him and find him in the garden near the oratory, sitting absolutely composed on a stone bench there, and I'd tell him my troubles, the difficulties I had with the slaves, how I distrusted the overseer or the weather or my brokers …. all the problems that made up the length and breadth of my existence.†   (source)
  • If the professor's field was limitless, requiring a breadth of knowledge that extended from heart failure to poliomyelitis and myriad conditions in between, she chose a field that had some boundaries and a mechanical component—operations.†   (source)
  • It was the first time Thomas had been exposed to the full breadth of the fight method developed by Tanis, and it made the martial arts of his dreams feel simple by comparison.†   (source)
  • I knew I could not match him and Danny in, the breadth of their knowledge, but I wondered if I might not be able to keep up with them in terms of depth.†   (source)
  • Above all, the prime suspect had proven to be impossible to locate, despite the fact that she was no taller than a hand's breadth and had tattoos all over her body.†   (source)
  • "I read forever," he would remember happily, and as years passed, in an age when educated men took particular pride in the breadth of their reading, he became one of the most voracious readers of any.†   (source)
  • Paranormal talents are anticipated, but researchers are surprised by 89-58's great breadth of more ordinary genius—which includes the ability to play any piece of piano music after hearing it once—and by his physical precocity, for which no genetic selection has been made.†   (source)
  • We covered the length and breadth of the property as well as some property off the farm, even though Otis had never left the farm before.†   (source)
  • Only his height and breadth made her think he was a man at all.†   (source)
  • Where the canyon pinched to a breadth of less than ten feet, Max ventured a look behind him.†   (source)
  • I only note his beauty: the smooth brown of his skin, the breadth of his shoulders, the muscles of his arms, so very different from my own.†   (source)
  • For ten years she hadn't realized the breadth of what I had accomplished with my exacting competence, the daily work I did, which unto itself became an unassailable body of cover.†   (source)
  • The water lapped against the shore in quick waves no higher than the breadth of a finger.†   (source)
  • And no one watching them could really have said how the news spread so fast, the length and breadth of the whole plantation, though the word went from the master's bedroom, to the kitchen, then to the stable, then to the quarter, where the little children managed to tell the field hands while they brought the water to them.†   (source)
  • To get to Kentucky, Booth must cross the great breadth of Virginia, following almost the exact same path General Lee took in his escape from Petersburg.†   (source)
  • At the very last moment, Heafstaag diverted the axe, its blade whistling within a hair's breadth of the southerner's throat.†   (source)
  • The villagers were building a wooden palisade around their homes, and when they saw the breadth of the Hound's shoulders they offered them food and shelter and even coin for work.†   (source)
  • I have traveled the length and breadth of Alabama, Mississippi and all the other southern states.†   (source)
  • My theory is that the guy missed Mongolian idiocy by the breadth of a genetic hair.†   (source)
  • I then had a visit from a young college instructor of English—a born Southerner of great breadth of understanding.†   (source)
  • At one moment Jan was looking down upon a beautiful, fertile country with nothing strange about it save the countless small statues scattered-yet not randomly— over its length and breadth.†   (source)
  • Whether this mass extermination of the Jews was necessary or not was something on which I could not allow myself to form an opinion, for I lacked the necessary breadth of view.†   (source)
  • It was an arrow, a hands-breadth of its shaft sticking from the snow as though it had been shot from the air.†   (source)
  • Then I turned my attention to the mosquito bites, which were legion over the length and breadth of my body.†   (source)
  • It's on a hill, normally--or on a range of hills--a city not so vast as New York or London or Rome, but you wouldn't know that to look at it: it stretches as far as you can see, hill after hill, or the breadth of a whole valley.†   (source)
  • My shaft thudded a hand's breadth from his.†   (source)
  • The width and breadth of this question nearly shook her.†   (source)
  • He had complained that Heaven had cast him off, but now the whole breadth of heaven leaned low over his bed, holding out two strong, white, woman's arms to him.†   (source)
  • Most of them, despite their differences, held much in common—the breath-taking talents of the orator, the brilliance of the scholar, the breadth of the man above party and section, and, above all, a deep-seated belief in themselves, their integrity and the rightness of their cause.†   (source)
  • But the Spaniard, cocking his head at Emma's full-sailed manifestation, simply pointed to his own breadth and opened his eyes on Eugene with one warm, brimming question of his own.†   (source)
  • He was tall and thin, and wore his coats padded, which gave a fictitious breadth and depth to his shoulders and chest.   (source)
  • Go, walk through the length and breadth of the land, for I am giving it to you.   (source)
  • But it continues to grow, to acquire breadth and scope, new outlets, new passages and means.†   (source)
  • Separated by the breadth of a kuthambalam.†   (source)
  • He was trying not to look at the blade, now scarcely a hand's breadth from his snow-white shirt.†   (source)
  • Nature produces an enormous breadth of variation.†   (source)
  • I doubt a soul alive understands the breadth of our power.†   (source)
  • They're coming into open roar, making a noise that keeps enlarging itself in breadth and range.†   (source)
  • Most simply, he shifted us a finger's-breadth away from where we had been standing.†   (source)
  • The sun was no more than a finger's breadth above the horizon when a runner arrived at the tent.†   (source)
  • I crossed the entire breadth of Alagaesia with that staff.†   (source)
  • In height and breadth, it feels like a wren's house," she wrote.†   (source)
  • Teeleh spread his wings to their full breadth.†   (source)
  • The tip of Zar'roc stopped less than a finger's-breadth from Eragon's skin.†   (source)
  • The first time you hear such talk you think "What breadth of imagination, what richness!†   (source)
  • Their dreams and aspirations had the grandeur, scope, and breadth of postage stamps.†   (source)
  • For whom in this world is all this breadth, So much agony and such power?†   (source)
  • Trish sped up, doing her best to stay composed, but the breadth of the darkness felt like it would engulf her.†   (source)
  • While it terrified him to see her down there, a hand's breadth from Dorian's unprotected throat, what terrified him even more was that he trusted her.†   (source)
  • The first sentence was "This tome will endeavor to scrutinize, in quasi-inclusive breadth, the epistemology of ophthalmologically contrived appraisals of ocular systems and the subsequent and requisite exertions imperative for expugnation of injurious states," and as Violet read it out loud to her sister, both children felt the dread that comes when you begin a very boring and difficult book.†   (source)
  • Acceptance of "the distinguished gentleman's offer," they wrote, would be "equivalent to a statement that the great body of civil engineers in this country, whose noble works attest their skill abroad as well as throughout the length and breadth of the land, lack the ability to cope with such a problem, and such action could have a tendency to rob them of their just claim to professional excellence."†   (source)
  • I go to stand up, but an image of Alex last night—standing so close to me, speaking those weird, wonderful words, I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach—knocks me down again, and I thud back onto the toilet.†   (source)
  • She turned her head and saw, a hand's breadth from her eyes, those other glacial eyes, that livid face, those lips petrified with fear, just as she had seen them in the crowd at Midnight Mass the first time he was so close to her, but now, instead of the commotion of love, she felt the abyss of disenchantment.†   (source)
  • His words were cut short as the door opened a hand's breadth and two bowls were pushed through the space.†   (source)
  • And only now, after working this same land for ten years, am I coming to understand the length and breadth of outsiders' failure to impose themselves on Africa.†   (source)
  • The dove squawked as Saphira's sharp teeth snapped together a hair's breadth behind its tail feathers.†   (source)
  • Smoke drifted from red beams of light into darkness and then into the breadth of scenic white floods.†   (source)
  • But there he was, just a hand's breadth from her fingers, his gray eyes wide, his arms swinging as if he could turn them into wings.†   (source)
  • The knife was barely a finger's breadth from Basta's white shirt, but suddenly Dustfinger plunged his hand into Basta's pants pocket, took out the keys to the cells, and stepped back.†   (source)
  • The little lake suddenly became a boundless ocean— not in depth or breadth, but in its glittering detail and the intricate patterns of its waves.†   (source)
  • At times they nearly touched, taut skin only a hair's breadth away, but then momentum would whirl them apart, and they would withdraw for a second, only to join again.†   (source)
  • She couldn't move as he leaned toward her, closer and closer, the table groaning beneath him, until he stopped, his lips just a hair's breadth from hers.†   (source)
  • It was a Saint Bernard for sure; there was no mistaking the heavy coat, tawny even in the shadows, the breadth of shoulder.†   (source)
  • If I could mend Isidar Mithrim, though, it would go a long way toward earning us the goodwill of all the dwarves, not just a select few who have the breadth of knowledge to appreciate the importance of their cooperation with us.†   (source)
  • But in spite of his immense wisdom and his mysterious breadth, he had a human burden, an earthly condition that kept him involved in the small problems of daily life.†   (source)
  • The Empire and the Varden had disintegrated into a series of smaller groups contending against one another over the entire breadth and width of the Burning Plains.†   (source)
  • Lately she'd been noticing a lot more things about Mark—the way the odd, faerieinfluenced shape of his face was appealing, and the breadth of his shoulders under his T-shirts.†   (source)
  • It was one of those days of light and scale when everything you see has the full breadth of intention.†   (source)
  • And why—when you consider that Lisbeth Salander is, according to our information, only one hand's breadth tall—do those leather pants you're holding up fit a person who is at least five foot eight?"†   (source)
  • It became clear quickly enough that though I was unequal to Danny in breadth, I was easily equal to him in depth, and this seemed to please Reb Saunders enormously.†   (source)
  • To escape the breadth of the huge camp before the dawn exposed them, they would have to flee back the way they came.†   (source)
  • The colt was a descendant of the mighty Man o' War through his sire, the brilliantly fast, exceptionally handsome Hard Tack, but his stunted build reflected none of the beauty and breadth of his forebears.†   (source)
  • Soon after daylight they began to hear and smell hrududil passing, not so far away as the breadth of a small field.†   (source)
  • And oh, how much I wanted to confide to him the breadth of what I didn't understand; how, searching all these years, I'd been astonished to discover those vampires above had made of immortality a club of fads and cheap conformity.†   (source)
  • With the auspicious attention of a diamond merchant he examined the banana meticulously, dissecting it with a special scalpel, weighing the pieces on a pharmacist's scale, and calculating its breadth with a gunsmith's calipers.†   (source)
  • With a loud flap, he unfolded his wings to their full breadth, shrugged his shoulders, and then wrapped them around his body once again.†   (source)
  • They had sailed madly across the breadth of the lakes and ran and fought all the way across the plain, yet Jensin Brent, the lone surviving spokesman of the original four, for Schermont and the two from the southern cities had fallen on the Eastway, would not let them rest.†   (source)
  • The world crumbled and ceased to exist at the boundary of the small space which soon became the length and breadth of Claudia's dressing room: a bed whose posters reached only to my breast buttons, and small mirrors that reflected only the legs of an unwieldy giant when I found myself lost among them; paintings hung low for Claudia's eye; and finally, upon her little vanity table, black evening gloves for tiny fingers, a woman's low-cut gown of midnight velvet, a tiara from a child's…†   (source)
  • She was charmed by his perfect manners, his manifold interests and breadth of reading, and, though she did not say it in so many words, by the attention he paid to her.†   (source)
  • It is not otherwise touchable somehow, for all the menacing heft and breadth of the material, the actual pulsing thing.†   (source)
  • His travels, his reading, the time spent in the company of men like Francis Dana and Thomas Jefferson had given him a maturity, made him conversant on a breadth of subjects that people found astonishing.†   (source)
  • He had a Rus-toleum yellow he'd started using, like mad canary, and the crew fitted different nozzles on the can so he could vary the breadth and mass of the strokes.†   (source)
  • Something about the juxtaposition deepened the moment, faces against the landscape, the enormous openness, the breadth of sheepland and divided sky that contains everything outside us, unbearably.†   (source)
  • And how curious, what a distance he sought to travel from the grating sound of that c-h with its breadth of reference, its guttural history and culture, those heavy hallway smells and accents—from this to the unknown x, mark of mister anonymous.†   (source)
  • The height and breadth of the area, the pillars and tall windows were out of some early dream, not quite nightmarish, of a child located at the edge of a room, or a child dreaming the room but not in it herself—a room surreally open at one end, where the child stands or the dream begins, a room where things, where objects are called chairs and curtains and beds but are also completely different, unsupported by the usual guarantees, and she shifted in the bed and woke up Miles.†   (source)
  • That he cannot do, in force to assail the City, either north of Cair Andros because of the marshes, or southwards towards Lebennin because of the breadth of the River, that needs many boats.†   (source)
  • Later, as a result of this entertainment, he supposed, broken glass had been spread the length and breadth of his driveway.†   (source)
  • His mind held, not as warring principles but as a solemn resolution, the length and breadth of the valley stretching out as if endlessly from the burning wreck, and the close-knit pattern in the wallpaper of Will Jr's livingroom.†   (source)
  • In introducing his work, Benton states that "the bare enumeration of the measures of which he was the author and the prime promoter, would be almost a history of Congress Legislation…… The long list is known throughout the length and breadth of the land—repeated with the familiarity of household words …. and studied by the little boys whofeel an honorable ambition beginning to stir within their bosoms …."†   (source)
  • "The Nile," all of them shouted, poking each other with their fingers and exulting in the breadth of their education.†   (source)
  • If Mrs. C. Serto, going to Naples, might miss by a hair's breadth being the largest mother, there was no question about which was the largest daughter-that was hers.†   (source)
  • They were unaware that such dramatic excesses, far from showing their warmth and breadth of character, expressed intellectual poverty.†   (source)
  • They entered the water hesitantly, but it did not take long for them to put their heads under the water, dive off the side of the pool headfirst, and after the third day, to dog paddle formlessly and desperately across the breadth of the pool.†   (source)
  • The cnams creaked, but we sat so still that the thing did not sway a hair's breadth.†   (source)
  • The bard rose throughout the length and breadth of his brave new world.†   (source)
  • The Magnuses too were big; they had a Netherlandish breadth of bone.†   (source)
  • 'Then canoes slipped through palely tinted yellow branches,' said Neville, 'and Bernard, advancing in his casual way against breadths of green, against houses of very ancient foundation, tumbled in a heap on the ground beside me.†   (source)
  • What this means is not a single Tower of Babel plotted in common, but hundreds of thousands of separate beginnings, the length and breadth of America.†   (source)
  • Knowing eternity makes one comprehensive; comprehension makes one broadminded; breadth of vision brings nobility; nobility is like heaven.†   (source)
  • …and drank the wine—as Sebastian promised, they were delicious together—and we lit fat, Turkish cigarettes and lay on our backs, Sebastian's eyes on the leaves above him, mine on his profile, while the blue-gray smoke rose, untroubled by any wind, to the blue-green shadows of foliage, and the sweet scent of the tobacco merged with the sweet summer scents around us and the fumes of the sweet, golden wine seemed to lift us a finger's breadth above the turf and hold us suspended.†   (source)
  • Moreover, her reputation for bickering pettiness spread through the length and breadth of Niggertown.†   (source)
  • One of the great, achievements of the last hundred years has been to deaden the human conscience on that subject, so that by now you will hardly find a sermon preached or a conscience troubled about it in the whole length and breadth of Europe.†   (source)
  • His were the feelings of a point in geometry, existing mysteriously on the shortest distance between two points: or of a line, drawn on a plane surface v/hich had length, breadth but no magnitude.†   (source)
  • She sets the basket into the wagon and climbs in, her leg coming long from beneath her tightening dress: that lever which moves the world; one of that caliper which measures the length and breadth of life.†   (source)
  • His was as Irish a face as could be found in the length and breadth of the homeland he had left so long ago—round, high colored, short nosed, wide mouthed and belligerent.†   (source)
  • …young prince Gautama 8akyamuni set forth secretly from his father's palace on the princely steed Kanthaka, passed miraculously through the guarded gate, rode through the night attended by the torches of four times sixty thousand divinities, lightly hurdled a majestic river eleven hundred and twenty-eight cubits wide, and then with a single sword-stroke sheared his own royal locks—whereupon the remaining hair, two finger-breadths in length, curled to the right and lay close to his head.†   (source)
  • The great turret of a fellow, who had entered in the height and breadth of armour, and who had stood for a second looking for his adversary through the slit of his helmet, this man had given an impression of docility—he seemed to have come in, and to have handed his sword to Lancelot, and to have thrown himself upon the ground.†   (source)
  • The red curtains and the white blinds blew in and out, flapping against the edge of the window, and the light which entered by flaps and breadths unequally had in it some brown tinge, and some abandonment as it blew through the blowing curtains in gusts.†   (source)
  • Not a fiddler throughout the length and breadth of Scandinavia played as he did.†   (source)
  • They have used a horizontal breadth for a frieze, and that adds wonderfully to the confusion.†   (source)
  • 'Nor, having only length, breadth, and thickness, can a cube have a real existence.'†   (source)
  • Martin Cole, I will not go a hair's-breadth out of my way for Dene or any other man.†   (source)
  • It was amazing, the length and breadth of this beautiful land.†   (source)
  • He was as far as he could get from them—the whole breadth of the ship.†   (source)
  • To attentive ears she recited the whole length and breadth of her woes.†   (source)
  • He had read with astounding breadth, and astounding lack of judgment.†   (source)
  • But I can measure distances to a hair's-breadth-always could."†   (source)
  • She bent to gather up a mud-stained breadth, and followed him up the steps into the hall.†   (source)
  • "I don't flatter myself that my coming has deflected your course of action by a hair's breadth."†   (source)
  • A hoof missed my brother's foot by a hair's breadth.†   (source)
  • Her eyes drank in the breadth of it, until her tears blinded her.†   (source)
  • In front sloped the lay of ground with its purple breadth split by the white trail.†   (source)
  • Beyond the marble rock this canyon opened out to great breadth and wonderful walls.†   (source)
  • He ought not to let the incident divert him a hair's breadth from his path.†   (source)
  • There's no more than a hair's breadth of difference between the advantages and disadvantages.†   (source)
  • Whizz came a flint, apparently out of the air, and missed Mr. Marvel's shoulder by a hair's-breadth.†   (source)
  • It is repeated, of course, by the breadths, but not otherwise.†   (source)
  • Not the breadth of a hair between this and that.†   (source)
  • Heathcliff measured the height and breadth of the speaker with an eye full of derision.†   (source)
  • He was a dark man altogether, with good eyes and a good bold breadth between them.†   (source)
  • Our "romantic" is a man of great breadth and the greatest rogue of all our rogues, I assure you….†   (source)
  • Why, you used to reproach me with breadth!†   (source)
  • The Otsego is about nine miles in length, varying in breadth from half a mile to a mile and a half.†   (source)
  • But this time I mean to outdo him in breadth of intention.†   (source)
  • Its breadth at no point exceeds a quarter of a mile.†   (source)
  • 'Thou hast never stepped a hair's breadth from the Way of Obedience.†   (source)
  • "Now don't forget to keep the bad breadth out of sight, Jo.†   (source)
  • I—yea, all men—are larger and purer by the infinite breadth of that one little life.†   (source)
  • Every object was agreeable, whether to be gazed at in the breadth, or examined more minutely.†   (source)
  • You look awfully kind," said Isabel with a breadth that cost her no effort.†   (source)
  • The lake itself varies in breadth from one to three miles.†   (source)
  • "Exactly, not a hair's breadth farther," answered Prince Vasili, laughing, " 'Sergey Kuzmich….†   (source)
  • There remains untorn by the idolater no more than the breadth of my fingernail.'†   (source)
  • "It flew a hair's breadth past my ear," said the adjutant.†   (source)
  • As if that money could add a hair's breadth to happiness or peace of mind.†   (source)
  • And if there is I'll never trouble you a hair's breadth again, but will be, if you will let me, a very faithful friend."†   (source)
  • The strong walls, the steel of the girders, the breadth and beam and pomp of it were there only to bring out the contrast with the young beauty beside him.†   (source)
  • It continued to swear with that breadth and variety that distinguishes the swearing of a cultivated man.†   (source)
  • At any rate, I know this, between Tull and death then there was not the breadth of the littlest hair.†   (source)
  • The distances he traversed on foot were enormous, and extended nearly the whole length and breadth of Wessex.†   (source)
  • I was within a hair's-breadth of the last opportunity for pronouncement, and I found with humiliation that probably I would have nothing to say.†   (source)
  • Barrymore's only indication had been that the stranger lived in one of these abandoned huts, and many hundreds of them are scattered throughout the length and breadth of the moor.†   (source)
  • Conversely, rich and interesting events are capable of filling time, until hours, even days, are shortened and speed past on wings; whereas on a larger scale, interest lends the passage of time breadth, solidity, and weight, so that years rich in events pass much more slowly than do paltry, bare, featherweight years that are blown before the wind and are gone.†   (source)
  • The squareness of his head and a reasonable breadth of shoulders saved him from any appearance of effeminacy or of that querulous timidity which artistic young gentlemen call Sensitiveness.†   (source)
  • But aside from these three cities, which are notoriously so overgrown that no decent white man, nobody who loves his wife and kiddies and God's good out-o'doors and likes to shake the hand of his neighbor in greeting, would want to live in them—and let me tell you right here and now, I wouldn't trade a high-class Zenith acreage development for the whole length and breadth of Broadway or State Street!†   (source)
  • By and by he moved, approached the fire, stood one moment in the dying ruddy glow, his great breadth and bulk magnified, with all about him vague and shadowy, but the more sinister for that.†   (source)
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