finger-breadth

“Kirát” from i.e. bean, the seed of the Abrus precatorius, in weight = two to three (English) grains; and in length = one finger-breadth here; 24 being the total.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

There weren't any, and he saw to his surprise that the sun was hardly more than a finger-breadth from the horizon.

Werehunter Lackey, Mercedes 1999

Half a mile of blowing sand, with sparse, wiry grass sticking through, was between us and the breakers; yet the ocean, cold and lead-coloured, was beyond, and not so much as a finger-breadth of impediment to check the prospect.

A Sheaf of Corn Mary E. Mann

Interrupted sutures about a finger-breadth apart are recommended.

Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages James Joseph Walsh 1903

A curved incision is made through the parietes parallel with, and a finger-breadth below, the lower margin of chest wall on left side, the peritoneum should be opened at the linea semilunaris, the stomach sought for, and then attached to the abdominal wall by an outer ring of sutures and to the edge of the wound by an inner ring.

A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners Joseph Bell 1874

The Egyptian cubit, which was similarly derived, was divided into digits, which were _finger-breadths_; and each finger-breadth was more definitely expressed as being equal to four _grains of barley_ placed breadthwise.

Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library Herbert Spencer 1861

Abrus precatorius, in weight = two to three (English) grains; and in length = one finger-breadth here; 24 being the total.

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

Of the whole wide atmosphere it does not desire a single finger-breadth more than what is necessary for its sails to turn round in.

Biographia Literaria Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803

Its curious: there are women, who, even if you don't ask them for anything, surrender themselves completely, go just as far as it's possible to go, yet all the time they won't let you see so much as a finger-breadth of skin. "

A Mummer's Tale Anatole France 1884

There was cut out from the board above a finger-breadth from one side, and a finger-breadth from the other side, and they were put into the golden ring, that they should not separate one from the other, as is said, “And they shall be coupled together beneath, and they shall be coupled together above the head of it unto one ring.” (

Hebrew Literature Epiphanius Wilson 1880