All 3 Uses of
breadth
in
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
- I have walked hundreds of miles this past summer, painting these texes on every wall, gate, and stile the length and breadth of this district.†
Chpt 2 *
- She knew how to hit to a hair's-breadth that moment of evening when the light and the darkness are so evenly balanced that the constraint of day and the suspense of night neutralize each other, leaving absolute mental liberty.†
Chpt 2
- Through the doorway she saw against the declining light a figure with the height of a woman and the breadth of a child, a tall, thin, girlish creature whom she did not recognize in the twilight till the girl said "Tess!"†
Chpt 6
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.