Both Uses of
breadth
in
The Sunlight Dialogues
- 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.†
Chpt 21 *
- 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.†
Chpt 23
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.