handbreadth
hand's-breadth

The door to the dungeons stood cracked open a handbreadth.

There was thus left half a handbreadth, for which the two sides of the Ark accounted.

A handbreadth of basis is enough for me, if it be actually basis and ground!

Beatrix was hardly able to see a handbreadth ahead in the fog and the dark.

A half moon had climbed a handbreadth above a craggy pinnacle.

Palm and hand, or handbreadth, have both historically been used in English to refer to specific lengths.

Each handbreadth was bought in the soul's strength.

The bullets smacked into the lip of the niche, missing him by a handbreadth.

The weapon tore past the elf, less than a handbreadth from his mottled face.

A disk, half a meter across and a handbreadth thick, materialized in midair.

And then suddenly it launched into the air, spreading leathery wings a handbreadth wide.

Elias leaned forward until his face was only a handbreadth from Simon's- "Lost!"

As I turned toward them, they shuffled a handbreadth toward me, exhausting themselves in the effort.

With a blade in his fist and himself a handbreadth from the polemarch's back?

He rested on his elbows a handbreadth from her, staring astonished at her.

Untidy masses were plastered there against the walls only a handbreadth from the ceiling.

Some opinions state that under a tefach (a handbreadth, about three inches total) of hair may show.

Just as the height of the table's border was a handbreadth, so was it also for the Ark-cover.

His first shot was low: acid wad smacking the wall a handbreadth beneath the keypad.

The sultry designer and the young blond model both looked distinguished in dresses that stopped a handbreadth above their knees.

Pryrates leaned down until his hairless face was only a handbreadth from the man's nose.

The blade was eighteen inches long, and the point erupted a handbreadth out of doomed man's chest, tearing through his heart on the way.

It came in closer, passing within a handbreadth of Wren as though it could neither see nor smell the human.

And after glancing quickly to either side and overhead, the Mouser opened the case a handbreadth on its hinges.

Niall stood within a handbreadth of a red-faced woman in rumpled fallweights.