Come, did you have any 'hairbreadth' 'scapes or moving accidents by field and flood? ". From Wordnik.com. ['Smiles' A Rose of the Cumberlands] Reference
He will not deviate an hairbreadth from the law of. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches of the Covenanters] Reference
Dan fired and missed the captain by a hairbreadth. From Wordnik.com. [Young Glory and the Spanish Cruiser A Brave Fight Against Odds] Reference
"By hairbreadth escapes we always win," he had said. From Wordnik.com. [The Rose of Old St. Louis] Reference
But do you think that brings you a hairbreadth nearer?. From Wordnik.com. [Pan] Reference
"It was a hairbreadth escape, and I'm mighty grateful.". From Wordnik.com. [The Rim of the Desert] Reference
Either she's in rapture, or just a hairbreadth from drowning. From Wordnik.com. [Give HBO Some Credit] Reference
A coup which brought me within a hairbreadth of total success. From Wordnik.com. [Menace of the Mutant Master]
How many dangers, distresses, and hairbreadth escapes had We seen. From Wordnik.com. [John Adams autobiography, part 2, "Travels, and Negotiations," 1777-1778] Reference
They do so, and meet with many adventures and hairbreadth escapes. From Wordnik.com. [Dick, Marjorie and Fidge A Search for the Wonderful Dodo] Reference
There would be plenty of excitement, plenty of hairbreadth escapes. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, July 15, 1914] Reference
How different with him who will not surrender a hairbreadth of truth!. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches of the Covenanters] Reference
Space forbids me to enumerate the hairbreadth escapes of that journey. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Impression of the Philippines] Reference
Yet they stood by their Covenant; they would not yield an hairbreadth. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches of the Covenanters] Reference
The arrow, caught by the breeze, drifted a hairbreadth wide of the dummy. From Wordnik.com. [Shield of Thunder]
Is it a hairbreadth too short to cover the scratch for which you want it?. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851] Reference
She kept her head down as she escaped the room, passing within a hairbreadth of him. From Wordnik.com. [Did You Say Twins]
Pedgift Senior failed to move him a hairbreadth from the position which he had taken up. From Wordnik.com. [Armadale] Reference
The stories of hairbreadth escapes and the annihilation of families continue to be told. From Wordnik.com. [The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin] Reference
Within a hairbreadth of the post on one side, and the van on the other, we cut our bright way through. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843] Reference
I cannot describe the maze we got into and the hairbreadth escapes we have had to pass through today. From Wordnik.com. [The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told]
Iloilo and Capiz, though after all her hairbreadth escapes she came near ending herself in a typical way. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Impression of the Philippines] Reference
Ironically, both parties are so utterly of the center that scarcely an ideological hairbreadth divides them. From Wordnik.com. [Right? Left? Center!] Reference
Many strange adventures have befallen individual men of the Guides, and many a hairbreadth escape have they had. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Guides] Reference
Probably, if any successful life were examined, it would be found to consist of a series of hairbreadth escapes. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 17, March, 1859] Reference
The handle (gold, red, green or black) has little legs that keep the blade half a hairbreadth from the counter-top. From Wordnik.com. [All I Want For Christmas...] Reference
Words are inadequate to describe the emotions excited by reunion, after such dreadful perils and hairbreadth escapes. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858] Reference
He become so small, we ourselves saw Miss Lucy, ere she was at peace, slip through a hairbreadth space at the tomb door. From Wordnik.com. [Dracula] Reference
Dramatic turns of fortune and hairbreadth escapes from perils are pleasant, because we feel all such things are wonderful. From Wordnik.com. [Rhetoric] Reference
Many hairbreadth escapes fell to his lot, and at last he quitted the sea, as he states "to the no small joy of my parents.". From Wordnik.com. [Robert Moffat The Missionary Hero of Kuruman] Reference
The lad's journey across France, and his hairbreadth escapes, makes up as good a narrative of the kind as we have ever read. From Wordnik.com. [Katie Robertson A Girls Story of Factory Life] Reference
One poor soldier had his leg completely severed from his body, while the escapes of his nonchalant bed-fellows were hairbreadth. From Wordnik.com. [The Siege of Kimberley] Reference
Drummond's Halls, and Cyprus Grove, but we had no time to see the caves where Sir Alexander Ramsay had such hairbreadth escapes. From Wordnik.com. [From John O'Groats to Land's End] Reference
I say that one might do a thousand things instead, and that whenever I really come there I have the sense of hairbreadth escape. From Wordnik.com. [The Man Who Was Thursday] Reference
On the other hand, the neck as a region offered some of the most striking examples of hairbreadth escape of important structures. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre] Reference
After many hairbreadth escapes he succeeded in reaching the German frontier, and to his unbounded relief knew that he was at last free!. From Wordnik.com. [The Letter-Bag of Lady Elizabeth Spencer-Stanhope — Volume 1] Reference
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