1 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.
2 The landscape outspread below her seemed an enlargement of her present mood, and she found something of herself in its calmness, its breadth, its long free reaches.
3 Miss Stepney, when her first fright had subsided, began to feel the superiority that greater breadth of mind confers.
4 He had read with astounding breadth, and astounding lack of judgment.
5 The sum is, that at particular seasons within that breadth and along that path, migrating whales may with great confidence be looked for.
6 He was tall and thin, and wore his coats padded, which gave a fictitious breadth and depth to his shoulders and chest.
7 I told you to take that loping miscreant under the line of white point; now, if your bullet went a hair's breadth it went two inches above it.
8 The lake itself varies in breadth from.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 20 9 Now don't forget to keep the bad breadth out of sight, Jo.
10 She could not roam about and amuse herself, for the burned breadth would show, so she stared at people rather forlornly till the dancing began.
11 His figure was enveloped in a riding cloak, fur collared and steel clasped; its details were not apparent, but I traced the general points of middle height and considerable breadth of chest.
12 Heathcliff measured the height and breadth of the speaker with an eye full of derision.
13 The present Catherine has no other likeness to her, except a breadth of forehead, and a certain arch of the nostril that makes her appear rather haughty, whether she will or not.
14 He is taller by almost the breadth of my nail, than any of his court; which alone is enough to strike an awe into the beholders.
15 Our "romantic" is a man of great breadth and the greatest rogue of all our rogues, I assure you.