Bring and put him to the test, Your specimen disciple, a handbreadth separate From you, he almost seemed to touch before!
The dome of heaven had stood As made up of a multitude Of handbreadth cloudlets, one vast rack Of ripples infinite and black, From sky to sky.
Item, four cushions of the same linen, all of them adorned all round with about a handbreadth of the aforesaid decoration of birds, leaves, and letters.
Less than this he may clear off, but he must leave it a handbreadth high over the ground.
José the Galilean said, “he must leave them an handbreadth high.
But the Sages say, “not less than four cabs, in height an handbreadth, and an handbreadth of dust over them, and they must be stored in a place where men tread.
He made a border of a handbreadth around it, and made a golden molding on its border around it.
The hooks, a handbreadth long, were fastened within round about: and on the tables was the flesh of the offering.
It was a handbreadth thick; and the brim of it was worked like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily: it received and held three thousand baths.
It was a handbreadth thick: and the brim of it was worked like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily: it held two thousand baths.
Scarce a handbreadth of rock lay between the smooth-cut upper wall and the perpendicular face of the pit.
A horrified shriek from the blacks, and he was over, the pit a scant handbreadth behind him.
A handbreadthof basis is enough for me, if it be actually basis and ground!
Three lawful handbreadths: a handbreadth between shoes and hose, a handbreadth between ear and hair, a handbreadth between the fringe of the tunic and the knee.
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