All 7 Uses of
breadth
in
War and Peace
- He tried to get away from them, but they would not for an instant let his shoulder move a hair's breadth.†
Chpt 2 *
- "Exactly, not a hair's breadth farther," answered Prince Vasili, laughing, "'Sergey Kuzmich...From all sides...From all sides...Sergey Kuzmich...'†
Chpt 3
- As if that money could add a hair's breadth to happiness or peace of mind.†
Chpt 5
- On each side of the trench, the earth was cut out to a breadth of about two and a half feet, and this did duty for bedsteads and couches.†
Chpt 5
- And considering it polite to return the young count's compliment, Ilagin looked at his borzois and picked out Milka who attracted his attention by her breadth.†
Chpt 7
- "It flew a hair's breadth past my ear," said the adjutant.†
Chpt 10
- For the fact that, from the point of view of observation, reason and the will are merely secretions of the brain, and that man following the general law may have developed from lower animals at some unknown period of time, only explains from a fresh side the truth admitted thousands of years ago by all the religious and philosophic theories—that from the point of view of reason man is subject to the law of necessity; but it does not advance by a hair's breadth the solution of the question, which has another, opposite, side, based on the consciousness of freedom.†
Chpt 15
Definitions:
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(1)
(breadth) the distance between two sides; or the range of variety -- especially a broad range of knowledge
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
More rarely, at one time a breadths described a piece of cloth of full width.