A miswak should be one hand span in length when selected.

Now she tapped the control panel Helen had not seen, a hand span from the window frame, hidden in ivy.

She waited for it to subside, then moved another hand span.

Right now all she could deal with was this journey of hand spans.

Our territories have not grown by a hand span since you last knew them.

He had grown, it seemed, half a hand's span, and his shoulders were broader.

The sun was hovering, a bare hand span above the western horizon; she had sat here most of the day.

Then a hand span of sunlight made its way through the shutters, and she stirred.

The craft flew over the ice, no more than a hand span above the surface, a rocket against the wind.

His face was a hand span from hers.