1 The width of the continent might have spread between her and home instead of twenty- five miles of dusty road.
2 The width and bigness of it, which had expanded her spirit an hour ago, began to frighten her.
3 The largest, a middle one, is in width something less than three feet, and in depth more than four.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 103. Measurement of The Whale's Skeleton. 4 The smallest, where the spine tapers away into the tail, is only two inches in width, and looks something like a white billiard-ball.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 103. Measurement of The Whale's Skeleton. 5 In the large and pleasant salon which extended across the width of the house, the Ratignolles entertained their friends once a fortnight with a soiree musicale, sometimes diversified by card-playing.
6 The brook was irregular in its width, sometimes shooting through narrow fissures in the rocks, and at others spreading over acres of bottom land, forming little areas that might be termed ponds.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 32 7 A white, dull light fell from a large window, with tiny panes, on the left, which usurped the whole width of the room.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—NUMBER 62 RUE PETIT-PICPUS 8 They walked arm in arm, occupying the whole width of the street and taking in every Musketeer they met, so that in the end it became a triumphal march.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 5 THE KING'S MUSKETEERS AND THE CARDINAL'S GUARDS 9 The field of ice is almost a league in width, but I spent nearly two hours in crossing it.
10 That wouldn't matter, though, but she's no independence in her views, no width, nothing.
11 The Rutulians start up with a groan, and all the hill echoes round about, and the width of high woodland returns their cry.