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  • I remember Julian's map, the breadth of the greater world beyond our country.†  (source)
  • Her slender figure contrasted vividly with the breadth of the flag: It was her sister, Wenxue.†  (source)
  • For the breadth of a river we stared without speaking.†  (source)
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  • In breadth it looked to be no more than two or three furlongs at the widest point.†  (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)
  • Separated by the breadth of a kuthambalam.†  (source)
  • Be it parenthesized here that since the mizzentopmen having not to handle such breadths of heavy canvas as the lower sails on the main-mast and fore-mast, a young man if of the right stuff not only seems best adapted to duty there, but in fact is generally selected for the captaincy of that top, and the company under him are light hands and often but striplings.†  (source)
  • Nature produces an enormous breadth of variation.†  (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)
  • The length and breadth of her seemed edgeless.†  (source)
  • The 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)
  • I continue to underestimate the breadth of your ignorance.†  (source)
  • It is repeated, of course, by the breadths, but not otherwise.†  (source)
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