One might look the length and breadthof the broad avenue and see no sign of sin all along it.
Boomer's charge the minister was taken over the length andbreadth of Plutoria University, and reviled it from the foundations up.
This consists in multiplying length of keel, breadth and depth, and dividing by thirty.
The designs produced by the two naval officers differ widely in several respects, and more especially as regards the relation between the total length of the ship and the breadth of beam.
I see the vast advantages of this country, spanning the breadth of the temperate zone.
Every one who knew Clough even slightly," says one of his oldest friends, "received the strongest impression of the unusual breadth and massiveness of his mind.
The acting turned the girls' thoughts into other channels and threatened to counteract the teachings of simplicity and reason; no one ever showed more genuine good sense, wholesomeness of mind, and breadth of view, than were displayed by Mme.
When in power, she did not use her influence as the intriguing women of the epoch would have done, because she did not possess their qualities—taste, breadth of vision, and selfish ambitions.
Under the 44th degree of latitude, the breadth of the Coteau is about forty miles, and its mean elevation is here reduced to one thousand four hundred and fifty feet above the sea.
Jacques, between the two coteaux and in the latitude of Otuhuoja, may be laid down as having a breadth of eighty miles, sloping gradually down from an elevation of seven hundred to seven hundred and fifty feet.
There was, it is true, no change in the eyes or in the round head--in the whiteness and width of the forehead, or the breadth of the shoulders.
There might also be hair-breadth escapes in the hunting of big game and the tramping of the vast wilderness.
I heard him babble to his cabman, with wilfulbreadth of speech.
Oldbuck now took upon himself the full authority of cicerone, and anxiously directed the company not to go a foot-breadth off the track which he pointed out to them, if they wished to enjoy in full perfection what they came to see.
On her naked feet were jade bracelets, jade-set rings on her little toes; a cascade of jade and gold falling over her breasts to the straight, narrow breadth of peacock hue which fell to her ankles.
Its extreme length is about eighty miles, its breadth about thirty miles, opening boldly into the Atlantic on the northern side of the island.
The men lying along its length and breadth on the bundles of straw had been talking together and were agreed.
Her lips are trembling on her rows of sparkling teeth; the wholebreadth of her bosom heaves quickly.
The breadth of the surface subjected to violence was nowhere more than two hundred yards, and generally rather less than one hundred.
It would not measure more than a league in length, but itsbreadth varied wonderfully, according as it was seen at high or low water, at spring tide or neap tide.
Characterized by all the breadth and complexity, the insight and the profound analysis, of 'Middlemarch.
The newspapers carried the announcement the next morning over the length and breadth of the island, and the leading article writers struggled in their comments to maintain a decent gravity.
Is there not infinitely greater breadth in the Holy Scriptures than in all the human writings under the sun?
May every beloved workman throughout the length and breadth of the Church of God take home to himself the apostolic admonition, "Take heed to thyself, and to the teaching; .
But then we have to inquire what is narrowness, and what breadth of mind?
The sudden deepening and the great breadth of the Tyropoeon appear to me to render it impossible to draw the line farther east.
It seems to me pretty safe, therefore, to look on this gorge as the scene of the wonderful escape of David, due to a sudden Philistine invasion, which terminated the history of his hair-breadth escapes in the South Country.
The symmetry of the present proportions is destroyed by the great breadth of the larger building in comparison with its height, which is due simply to the addition of the outer wall.
The whole breadth of the land was thus seen--some thirty miles across, from Jordan to the promontory above Haifa.
And they followed the passage until an arched and curtained doorway but screened them from that 'twas within the grand saloon, and Constance made bold to draw aside a finger-breadth of the sweeping curtain and peep within.
From the hour of his terrible vengeance upon the priests of Quetzal's temple, he was known through the length and breadth of Anahuac as a bitter enemy of the Aztec gods and a relentless persecutor of their priests.
Her fine instinct avoids the romantic and melodramatic touches which, however seductive to an actor who aims at effect, would destroy at once that breadth and unity which characterize her best impersonations.
If there be something Oriental in his philosophy and tropical in his imagination, they have yet the strong flavor of his mother earth--the underived sweetness of the open Concord sky, and the spacious breadth of the Concord horizon.
It is quite immeasurable the breadth and length which now separates the spirit of those Orders from the spirit of their Founders.
The clearness of her mind and her breadth of view impressed every one who saw her.
In the middle part it had less breadth than at the ends, being perhaps three hundred yards at its narrowest, and a hundred yards wider at its broadest.
At that, I stared out over the breadth of the weed, showing very ghostly in the moonlight; but, for the moment, I saw not the thing to which he purposed to draw my attention.
I conceived, now that I could see so much of it, that its length would be near to half a mile, though its breadth was something under four hundred yards; thus it was very long in proportion to its width.
