hand's-breadth

Updated: May 18, 2025

I should say that he took after you, Glenfernie. But it's hard to tell whom the young take after!" The school-room at Glenfernie gave upon the hill's steepest, most craglike face. A door opened on a hand's-breadth of level turf across from which rose the broken and ruined wall that once had surrounded the keep.

Mary Johnston - Foes