The door to the dungeons stood cracked open a handbreadth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Hunt]

She stood up in the handbreadth of dryness under the rustic porch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lady Chatterley's Lover] Reference

The youngster seemed to have grown a handbreadth since she had seen him last.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shield of Thunder]

Conan swore that he saw the Golden Serpent rise a handbreadth from the floor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan and The Gods of The Mountain]

A handbreadth of basis is enough for me, if it be actually basis and ground! —.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none] Reference

And then suddenly it launched into the air, spreading leathery wings a handbreadth wide.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dreamfall]

Untidy masses were plastered there against the walls only a handbreadth from the ceiling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dark Piper]

She followed him into the scullery, and combed her hair before the handbreadth of mirror by the back door.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lady Chatterley's Lover] Reference

Thus, it is said, "Thou hast made my days as a handbreadth," Ps 39: 5; "Teach me the MEASURE of my days," Ps.    From Wordnik.com.  [Barnes New Testament Notes] Reference

Men are asked to refrain from reading the Shema in the presence of a woman who has a single handbreadth exposed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Modesty and Sexuality in Halakhic Literature.] Reference

Then a knife hurtled from nowhere, thudding into the horror's emerald trunk a handbreadth from Heng Shih's face.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan and the Emerald Lotus]

Also he made thereunto a border of a handbreadth round about; and made a crown of gold for the border thereof round about.    From Wordnik.com.  [Exodus 37.] Reference

Also he made thereunto a border of an handbreadth round about; and made a crown of gold for the border thereof round about.    From Wordnik.com.  [Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences] Reference

And thou shalt make unto it a border of a handbreadth round about, and thou shalt make a golden crown to the border thereof round about.    From Wordnik.com.  [Exodus 25.] Reference

Now the thickness of it was a handbreadth, and the brim of it was like the brim of a cup, or of a crisped lily: and it held three thousand measures.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 14: 2 Paralipomenon The Challoner Revision] Reference

And the thickness of it was a handbreadth, and the brim of it like the work of the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies; and it received and held three thousand baths.    From Wordnik.com.  [2 Chronicles 4.] Reference

It was marked with narrow white bands across the body, exactly like those of the koodoo, and had a black patch of more than a handbreadth on the outer side of the fore-arm.    From Wordnik.com.  [Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa] Reference

R. José the Galilean said, “he must leave them an handbreadth high.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hebrew Literature] Reference

A handbreadth of basis is enough for me, if it be actually basis and ground!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none] Reference

My personal handbreadth is 8.25 inches; my personal cubit is 18 inches exactly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference

By what looked like a handbreadth, we cleared each other, and the race continued.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales] Reference

You have made my days a mere handbreadth; the span of my years is as nothing before You.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beauty from the Heart] Reference

A handbreadth is taken to be about 3 inches, sometimes being defined as one-sixth of a cubit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Propeller Most Popular Stories] Reference

“Less than this he may clear off, but he must leave it a handbreadth high over the ground.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hebrew Literature] Reference

The outer brim which was a handbreadth (four fingers) in thickness was adorned with colocynths.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference

But the great arrow had pierced right through her shoulder, and stood out a handbreadth upon the other side.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Heroine of France] Reference

“A tree decays and sprouts afresh; when less than a handbreadth, it is a sapling; when more than a handbreadth, it is a tree.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hebrew Literature] Reference

In the midst of it he made another rush, missed the calf by a handbreadth, and buried his sword to the socket in the mother's side.    From Wordnik.com.  [Children of the Wild] Reference

R. Maier said, “there must be not less than two seahs, (58) in height three handbreadths, and over them an handbreadth of dust.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hebrew Literature] Reference

Yet some of the critics contend that this measuring-reed was but six common cubits in length, and one handbreadth added to the whole.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)] Reference

Her blood tingled with the air from the wind-swept harbor, with the rush of the great engines, as by a handbreadth they plunged past her.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Scarlet Car] Reference

That the inner garment may not be seen below it to a handbreadth. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [From the Talmud and Hebraica] Reference

'years are throughout all generations,' and 'my days are as an handbreadth'?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John] Reference

A handbreadth shorter than the left, and Naphthali has pig's ears and a smell of live pork.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daniel Deronda] Reference

12 Also he made thereunto a border of an handbreadth round about; and made a crown of gold for the border thereof round about.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume I (Genesis to Deuteronomy)] Reference