"Handsbreadth" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... a small house in a street turning up from the Strand, a confined little house of the ordinary lodging-house sort, with a handsbreadth of gravel and shrubs in front, and from the sitting-room window up stairs a side-glance at the sea. From a few words that Mr. Gardiner dropped, Bessie learned that it was theirs for twelve months, until the following ...
— The Vicissitudes of Bessie Fairfax • Harriet Parr |
