| 单词 | hair's-breadth |
| 例句 | They've found excuses to turn nearly every moment into a frantic race against the clock, driving the characters from one hair's-breadth escape to the next. Star Trek Beyond: two minutes of humor, two hours of angst 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z This time, a New Hampshire win would go even further to juice up her campaign after her unsatisfying hair's-breadth win in Iowa. You may have heard about the establishment lane in the campaign, the outsider lane and more 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z In 2000, George W. Bush targeted California and boldly stumped in the state on the last weekend of the hair's-breadth campaign. Partisan hurdles too high for Davis in Texas, Kashkari in California 2014-11-02T04:00:00Z A few days ago, a bark, which has just arrived, was within a hair's-breadth of perishing. Famous European Artists 2012-04-07T02:00:30.487Z It contains neither a guerrilla nor a spy; narrates no thrilling deed of blood or hair's-breadth escape; describes no battle; and admits that both parties embrace many noble and honorable men. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z Between the sublime and the ridiculous there is a whole step; but in comic art there is but a hair's-breadth between the happy and the flat. Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. 2012-04-04T02:00:59.277Z You were within a hair's-breadth of finding us all dead and gone, Lina. Fickle Fortune 2012-03-20T02:00:13.167Z Now try to absorb into your system the fact—equally important to a hair's-breadth—that Labour cannot exist without Capital. A Safety Match 2012-03-19T02:00:23.817Z It shaved his shoulder almost by a hair's-breadth, only missing his chest because the man stumbled over one of Blanco's soldiers who had just fallen. Swift and Sure 2012-03-16T02:00:24.627Z A hair's-breadth more and you had died at the first stab. Cardigan 2012-02-24T03:00:29.073Z He continued in the Duke's retinue to the end, without appearing by this means to have advanced a hair's-breadth towards the goal of his desires. Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter 2012-02-08T03:00:20.643Z It was, however, not his business to instruct the Crown Recorder, and Eshelby seldom deviated a hair's-breadth from the course he had once decided on. Delilah of the Snows 2012-01-23T03:00:09.087Z At school he had scraped into the Sixth by a hair's-breadth; at the University he had secured a degree of purely nominal value. A Safety Match 2012-03-19T02:00:23.817Z Far be it from me to willingly discompose an artist," replied Manasseh drily, "though from the elegance of the design, I venture to think my interruption will not make a hair's-breadth of difference. The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies 2011-12-28T03:00:34.587Z Neither umbrella nor war-horse turned her by a hair's-breadth from her course, still less did her rider, a lean and long-legged country boy, whose single object was to keep on her back. Further Experiences of an Irish R.M. 2011-11-24T03:00:44.527Z Once when he was there, Carew hurled a tumbler at her which missed her head by a hair's-breadth. Maid of the Mist 2011-11-21T03:00:11.937Z He made no attempt whatever to slow down, but just at the last moment he caused the car to swerve violently, and they missed the dog by a hair's-breadth. Across the Stream 2011-11-05T02:00:11.673Z "No," said Mr. Spangler, "mercenary considerations do not move me a hair's-breadth." Dr. Lavendar's People 2011-10-13T02:00:52.167Z If there were nothing for you to push back against your forward push would not move the cart a hair's-breadth. The Story of Great Inventions 2011-10-05T02:00:16.353Z Did his labours over his book displace by a hair's-breadth some minute particle of matter in his brain? Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, September 2nd, 1893 2011-09-30T02:00:16.737Z Among other things he remarked that he had never heard her sing even a hair's-breadth out of tune, so perfect was her natural ear. Garcia the Centenarian And His Times Being a Memoir of Manuel Garcia's Life and Labours for the Advancement of Music and Science 2011-09-05T02:00:19.693Z "I don't know," denied the promoter, and he said it without flinching a hair's-breadth. The City of Numbered Days 2011-08-31T02:01:25.807Z Lightly, nimbly, quickly, and with hair's-breadth accuracy, she carried on the dance. Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) 2011-06-22T02:00:23.137Z It would be something to have such a woman as that beside one, strengthening one's hands; but of course it cannot be—she could not deviate from her duty by a hair's-breadth.' Heriot's Choice A Tale 2011-04-20T02:00:22.760Z Horror of horrors; it gave an awful crack and would not budge a hair's-breadth. 13 Days The Chronicle of an Escape from a German Prison 2011-04-01T02:00:33.827Z At the end he would strike the chord again, to show that they had not deviated from the pitch to the extent of even a hair's-breadth. Garcia the Centenarian And His Times Being a Memoir of Manuel Garcia's Life and Labours for the Advancement of Music and Science 2011-09-05T02:00:19.693Z Just missing a pedestrian here, who saves himself only by a hair's-breadth, grazing a wheel there, on, on! until he drew up by a knot of people along the curb. Peeps at People 2011-03-26T02:00:17.597Z I yielded not a hair's-breadth, and those to whom I owed no filial respect were sharply handled and despatched. Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) 2011-06-22T02:00:23.137Z The cart slewed across the smooth asphalt, lunged perilously to one side, came within a hair's-breadth of upsetting, and then righted. Rick Dale, A Story of the Northwest Coast 2011-03-24T02:00:12.337Z Here he had sat eating and drinking and idly talking, while the fugitive, who had escaped by a hair's-breadth, was counting miles and miles between himself and his lax pursuer. The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains 2011-03-22T02:00:18.637Z When I re-entered the surgery I found Tarn still standing in just the same pose and place, as if he had not moved a hair's-breadth since I left him. Here and Hereafter 2011-02-07T03:00:23.580Z "You came within a hair's-breadth of being deceived." A Hero of the Pen 2011-02-04T03:00:19.217Z "Hit to a hair's-breadth!" said she, whirling round upon her heel, as she was wont on such occasions. Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) 2011-06-22T02:00:23.137Z What they cannot endure is that a hair's-breadth should be taken away from the proud estate of the pope. Works of Martin Luther With Introductions and Notes (Volume II) 2011-01-11T03:00:31.950Z The ball, as she spoke, suddenly slowed down and stopped dead, midway, to a hair's-breadth, between the ball and the hole. "Pip" A Romance of Youth I mounted and rode on again in an amazingly pleasant frame of mind for a spy within a hair's-breadth of capture, and very probably of ignominious death. The Spy in Black Roughly hewn out of fir trunks, they were so firmly planted in the earth, that they did not move a hair's-breadth when he shook them. Regina or the Sins of the Fathers We have not these means; the people have a great degree of freedom, but we cannot allow that in one single case even a hair's-breadth should be over-stepped.' Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. II. Infinite pains and labor went into these records of the dead; one hair's-breadth error, and the whole page was replaced by a new one. Rodman the Keeper Southern Sketches So am I, for that matter, though I have never found that I have advanced it a hair's-breadth by losing a night's sleep over it. The Span o' Life A Tale of Louisbourg & Quebec Yet in spite of his best efforts the wild thing still struggled, and indeed more than once came within a hair's-breadth of fastening her teeth in his cheek. The Firebrand He dared not turn a hair's-breadth to the right nor to the left; nothing was better than to walk straight on. The Captain of the Gray-Horse Troop He knows to a hair's-breadth the best theme to select, and almost unerringly what details to omit. A Traitor's Wooing There were doubters among the ten; desperate men whose lawless days and nights were filled with hair's-breadth chance-takings. The King of Arcadia "I do not know of any," said I. His eyebrows rose perhaps a hair's-breadth, but I noted the implied sarcasm, and for an instant forgot my dignity. Lost Man's Lane A Second Episode in the Life of Amelia Butterworth Not a hair's-breadth too far did she permit her inflammable lover to venture. Shadows of Flames A Novel For, in spite of her efforts to be Thorne and Duero, she had never departed a hair's-breadth from her American belief in complete liberty of personal choice in marriage. East Angels "So be it!" he replied, with a hardness of determination which I realized all my anger and despair could not move a hair's-breadth. A Volunteer with Pike The True Narrative of One Dr. John Robinson and of His Love for the Fair Señorita Vallois The exposure of even a hair's-breadth rim of ankle would have seemed to her an unpardonable impropriety. Anne "It went, the doctor said, within a hair's-breadth of the artery." A Day's Ride A Life's Romance The shot had entered the breast just above the heart, only escaping it by a hair's-breadth. Waldfried A Novel Terry, Aha! you have said it exactly—defined it to a hair's-breadth—the plight of the authors who would rise up on wings as eagles but only they faint and are weary. Seeds of Pine "I will place my ball so exactly between his eyes that you cannot measure a hair's-breadth farther on the one side than on the other." A Volunteer with Pike The True Narrative of One Dr. John Robinson and of His Love for the Fair Señorita Vallois No entreaties, threats, arguments, denunciations, stirred him a hair's-breadth. A House-Party Don Gesualdo and A Rainy June Herbert approaches within a hair's-breadth of the standpoint of Sociology, and what separates him from it is not so much the logical accentuation of the social-contract theory as the indirect assumption of it. Anarchism A Criticism and History of the Anarchist Theory Not if his life depended on it would he depass that precise instant by a hair's-breadth. The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. I ducked, just in time, for he missed me by a mere hair's-breadth. My Brave and Gallant Gentleman A Romance of British Columbia He remained there for maybe the space of half an hour, without moving a hair's-breadth, so far as I could see. The Rose of Paradise Being a detailed account of certain adventures that happened to captain John Mackra, in connection with the famous pirate, Edward England, in the year 1720, off the Island of Juanna in the Mozambique Channel; writ by himself, and now for the first time published Had I wavered but a hair's-breadth, I must have plunged down into the abyss. Eyes Like the Sea As Christianity not only did not free mankind from the power of ancient spectres, but rather strengthened and increased them, so too the Reformation did not remove the chains of mankind a hair's-breadth. Anarchism A Criticism and History of the Anarchist Theory She had had a hair's-breadth escape of being handsome in a somewhat original and eccentric way. The Return of the Prodigal The stab, he said, had gone wonderfully near the vital parts; a hair's-breadth deviation to the right or left, and Vasari would have been a dead man. Under False Pretences A Novel If they are out of trim only a shadow of a shade of a hair's-breadth, the desired accuracy is interfered with, and they have to be re-adjusted. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. Like Goethe or Stendhal, Conrad can write in the midst of war's alarums about the hair's-breadth 'scapes of his characters. Ivory Apes and Peacocks I have no wish to exaggerate by a hair's-breadth about Finn. Finn The Wolfhound It would support an enormous building without budging a hair's-breadth. A History of Science, Volume 5(of 5) Aspects Of Recent Science Heaps of times we escaped a smash-up by a hair's-breadth. How I Filmed the War A Record of the Extraordinary Experiences of the Man Who Filmed the Great Somme Battles, etc. We shaved the next big tree in our road by a hair's-breadth, and then discovered that the reins were coupled in an extraordinary manner. The Last Voyage to India and Australia, in the 'Sunbeam' Within a hair's-breadth she drew back, and struck out for Victory's; but God helped her not to flinch. Things as They Are Mission Work in Southern India "Captain, drop that revolver on the floor without moving your hand a hair's-breadth." Marcy The Blockade Runner But even this delicate measure, a hair's-breadth, tells its own tale; it lays down a limit of twenty-five billion miles within which no star can lie! The Children's Book of Stars Andrew did not say that it was only a hair's-breadth escape of his own life. A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia But perfect as this balance appears at present, it has lost something, the merest hair's-breadth, of its original faultlessness of adjustment. Rambles Beyond Railways; or, Notes in Cornwall taken A-foot "It takes the Ideal to blow a hair's-breadth off the Dust of the Actual." Things as They Are Mission Work in Southern India The campaign of 1672, which brought the French armies to the gates of Amsterdam, and placed the United States within a hair's-breadth of destruction, was to him fruitful in valuable lessons. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 She had been hurt by Mellony's rebellion, but not influenced by so much as a hair's-breadth. A Christmas Accident and Other Stories Not a hair's-breadth: that lady had only to lift her little finger and he would have run after her to church, with his tongue out.” The Brothers Karamazov All that, seven years ago, an' the thing is dune the day wi'oot a hair's-breadth difference. The Dop Doctor Once a kingfisher dived for him, missed him by a hair's-breadth, and flew back, scolding and chattering, to his perch on an old stub that leaned far out over the water. Forest Neighbors Life Stories of Wild Animals Remember that man's life lies all within this present, as 't were but a hair's-breadth of time; as for the rest, the past is gone, the future yet unseen. Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature It was not often that Linda aspired to question either his motives or decisions; and he had begun to suspect that her loyalty wavered, by a hair's-breadth, where Desmond was concerned. Captain Desmond, V.C. They can contemplate such depths of belief and disbelief at the same moment that sometimes it really seems that they are within a hair's-breadth of being ‘turned upside down,’ as the actor Gorbunov says.” The Brothers Karamazov All these things did not turn Takauji by a hair's-breadth from his purpose. A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era I catch Luca by a hair's-breadth only, with my 1400 rod; but on the whole, with very little coaxing, I get the groups in this memorable and quite literally 'handy' form. Ariadne Florentina Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving So for the hair's-breadth of time assigned to thee live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it. Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature You have not altered my conviction by a hair's-breadth. Captain Desmond, V.C. But, on my oath, I looked at her for three seconds, or five perhaps, with fearful hatred—that hate which is only a hair's-breadth from love, from the maddest love! The Brothers Karamazov There was a certain pretentiousness about his people which caused them to escape complete vulgarity only by a hair's-breadth. The Hero The great ship swung round with a majestic sweep, and as we waited breathlessly, the torpedo passed right under our bow, missing the ram by a hair's-breadth. The Iron Pirate A Plain Tale of Strange Happenings on the Sea Between death and life, success and failure, what a hair's-breadth after all. Frenzied Finance Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated She had been divided from him by no more than a hair's-breadth. The Creators A Comedy Now, it is not well to live in a place which a gun has located, because modern artillery is fine in its workings to a hair's-breadth, and can repeat its performance to a fractional inch. Young Hilda at the Wars Perhaps he would have been a trifle shaken in his confidence had he seen Wilhelmine fall back in her chair, breathing hard like some wild animal who had escaped the hunter's knife by a hair's-breadth. A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg This, however, is of but little importance to our tale; it will be enough not to stray a hair's-breadth from the truth in the telling of it. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VIII (of X) - Continental Europe II. Is there but a hair's-breadth intervention of some invisible nerve, some slender web of imagination, between mirth and melancholy? Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 She kept her head; she held it high; she fixed her eyes on the tossing balls, and simply trusted her feet not to swerve by a hair's-breadth. The Creators A Comedy I would not have the church compromise one hair's-breadth with sin. Amusement: A Force in Christian Training You live, in the physical sense, and move and have your being in God, and yet your inmost life would not be altered one hair's-breadth if there were no God at all. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John Nor was there at any time an instant when any one of the Bonapartes could have overstepped, by a hair's-breadth, the line of decency, without being fatally exposed. Hortense Makers of History Series But Aunt Emmy had not moved mentally by a hair's-breadth. The Lowest Rung Together with The Hand on the Latch, St. Luke's Summer and The Understudy It had a round chin that was a shade too large for it; an absurd little nose with a round end, tilted; grey eyes a thought too round, and eyebrows too thick by a hair's-breadth. The Creators A Comedy According to the canon of the Bampton Lecturer, this, though carrying a strong appearance of an immediate exertion of Divine energy, lacks by a hair's-breadth the quality of a miracle. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 If they threaten you, or if they hold out promises, do not depart a hair's-breadth from the truth. The Basket of Flowers Time and again they came within a hair's-breadth of destruction. The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest Within a hair's-breadth she had let him disappear. The Lost Girl Not a feature that did not err by a thought, a hair's-breadth or a shade. The Creators A Comedy Experience, he urges, can only deal with the past; and the moment we attempt to project experience a hair's-breadth beyond the point it has at any moment reached, we are condemned by reason. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 Shots were judged to a hair's-breadth, and the judging was perfectly fair. Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer But however large the region governed by the suspected new Laws may be that cannot diminish by a hair's-breadth the size of the territory where the old Laws still prevail. Natural Law in the Spiritual World His extraordinary knowledge of the sun's position, to a hair's-breadth in Mr Turner's pictures, and minute of the day, is quite surprising. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV. "Ice right ahead!" suddenly shouted the watch on the forecastle, and only by a hair's-breadth was the Vega saved. A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole And when you take it off you tear out a piece of paper and that gives you the exact measure to a hair's-breadth. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 18, 1914 The flash of the negro's rifle revealed where he stood, and the Shawanoe, who was watching for that clew, lost no time in firing, missing by a hair's-breadth a fatal result. The Phantom of the River That man could tell a story, without deviating a hair's-breadth from the truth, that would astonish the commonwealth of Massachusetts, or I am vastly mistaken in him. A War-Time Wooing A Story Again and again the shining steel was within a hair's-breadth of me—now at my head, now at my heart—while I was almost suffocated in the press. At the Point of the Sword Her chair had not moved a hair's-breadth from the chalk-marks on the floor. The Shadow World Neither of them would harm a fly, or go a hair's-breadth from the truth for all the world. Aunt Rachel At the exact hair's-breadth of time, he had changed from human being to spirit. The Wind Bloweth Clean, simple, valiant, well-beloved, Flawless in faith and fame, Whom neither ease nor honours moved An hair's-breadth from his aim. The Years Between Just as a billion, minus the billionth fraction of a unit, is no longer a billion, so infinity itself, limited though it be but by a hair's-breadth, is no longer, strictly speaking, infinite. Problems of Immanence: studies critical and constructive "The hereditary principle—" Brother Copas inhaled his snuff, sideways eyeing this friend whose weakness he understood to a hair's-breadth. Brother Copas Skater after skater was left behind, often by a hair's-breadth margin of safety which evoked half-heard protests as they skimmed on. A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life These were the men who fought the revenue officers and had the hair's-breadth escapes. Highways and Byways in Sussex The crews, while they baled, had each a separate tale to tell of their latest adventure; each, it seemed, had escaped destruction by a hair's-breadth. Fort Amity An arrow whizzed past my face and glanced within a hair's-breadth of the Indian's head. Lords of the North But he had sense enough to know that such primitive methods would not shift, by one hair's-breadth, their real point of division; would, in fact, be no less than inverted defeat. The Great Amulet The cherries that swung from her hat-brim stirred not a hair's-breadth, but the commotion their stillness caused in Quin's heart was nothing short of cyclonic. Quin He put sand all over his pants to make 'em rough, but he could only go so high, and there he stopped, unable to budge a hair's-breadth. Dixie Hart I threw him into the water, and he was within a hair's-breadth of remaining at the bottom, considering it indiscreet to give me the trouble of saving him. Debit and Credit Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag This structure is so constituted that not a stone of it admits of being a hair's-breadth broader or narrower. History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) Many things can happen at night and on the sea—strange escapades and hair's-breadth 'scapes—thrills denied to stay-at-homes dwelling in cities, who seldom venture beyond a lighted area. The Stowaway Girl On to this pier, picket boats, launches, dinghies, barges, all converge through the heavy swell with shouts and curses, bumps and hair's-breadth escapes. Gallipoli Diary, Volume I Vast companies were within a hair's-breadth of being floated. John Gabriel Borkman And the characters never say or do a thing which oversteps by a hair's-breadth the probable and natural conduct of such persons. Studies in Early Victorian Literature "Him" was originally written "her," but the r has been lengthened to an m, and the e dotted, both with a care which overshot their mark by an almost imperceptible hair's-breadth. Life of Father Hecker There was a quick thrust, answered by Godefroy's counter-stroke at the stern; and the canoe grazed past the rocks not a hair's-breadth off. Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade Doubtless the chiefs restrained their young men somewhat, but more than once we came within a hair's-breadth of serious conflict. When Wilderness Was King A Tale of the Illinois Country She swerved not her eyes a hair's-breadth when she came close to him—so close that their shoulders almost touched in passing in the narrow path. Madelon A Novel It went within a trembling hair's-breadth of a tragedy. The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady A bomb had fallen just before the colonel's house and missed his servant by a hair's-breadth. The Luck of Thirteen Wanderings and Flight through Montenegro and Serbia Even then its success was within a hair's-breadth of failing. Juliana Horatia Ewing And Her Books He never stepped a hair's-breadth outside those regulations that hedge round the Quartermaster. Adventures of a Despatch Rider There were two windows on each side of the door and two rows of five above, fourteen in all, and every window had its little curtains rigged up exactly alike to a hair's-breadth. Carette of Sark Yet I did make shift to hold fast, and in mid flight the twirling ax veered aside to miss me by a hair's-breadth, gashing the tree at my ear when it struck. The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady He saw Finn and Jan just as plainly as they saw him, but he never turned a hair's-breadth in their direction, or betrayed his recognition by a single glance. Jan A Dog and a Romance In the third drawer lay an unset emerald, worth a king's ransom, a clasp of two amethysts, and a necklace of black pearls graduated to a hair's-breadth. Corporal Sam and Other Stories He looked along his gun, adjusted it and readjusted to a hair's-breadth. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864 I turned pale to imagine the doom she had escaped as by a hair's-breadth. Grey Roses "Yes and no," replied the old woman, cautiously, not wishing to depart a hair's-breadth from the truth. The Pilot and his Wife Margaret, indeed, glanced at her suspiciously once or twice, without moving her head by so much as a hair's-breadth. Pearl of Pearl Island Cut the other hydra a hair's-breadth farther up. The Whence and the Whither of Man A Brief History of His Origin and Development through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895 The next was Tom's lowered head and cumbrous body, as he charged like a bull into Gard and both rolled to the ground, the table escaping catastrophe by a hair's-breadth. A Maid of the Silver Sea She had noted every blow, how it was calculated to a hair's-breadth, and fell without waste of one single ounce of power. The Man in the Twilight Delicate to a hair's-breadth, hand and eye true and steady as steel. A Daughter of the Snows But this amiable pliability, while angering very many of the Orleanists, failed to move the monarch-designate by one hair's-breadth from those principles of divine right against which the more liberal monarchists always protested. The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.) "With the poor remaining strength of your declining years you will not succeed in removing a hair's-breadth of the mountains, much less the whole vast mass of rock and soil." The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 They went on to Broadway, crossed it precariously, and reached the pavement by what Johnny considered a hair's-breadth of safety as a big car slid past his heels. The Thunder Bird He knew that he had saved his life by a hair's-breadth. The Story of the Foss River Ranch A Tale of the Northwest A man might be set above all his fellows, to be but so much less than he was before; a man cannot be raised a hair's-breadth above himself, without rising nearer to God. Hope of the Gospel The threats of the use of force, said the Attorney-General, would not turn them aside by a hair's-breadth. John Redmond's Last Years And every now and then he glanced at his wife sideways out of his brilliant sapphire eyes, without moving his head a hair's-breadth. The Belfry You could not alter your plans by one hair's-breadth to save their gallant lives. Rosa Mundi and Other Stories He represented to me the imminent hazard of straying a hair's-breadth to the right or left of the orders of Robespierre! Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844 That great stream, the pouring out of His own very inmost Being, knows no pause, nor does the deep fountain from which it flows ever sink one hair's-breadth in its pure basin. Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) Who gets a hair's-breadth on by showing That Something Else set all agoing? The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell The hermit's eye wavered not; he bent forward a hair's-breadth; the glittering spear-point touched the animal's breast, pierced through it, and came out at its side below the ribs. Martin Rattler We deviated from our course one hair's-breadth on the twelfth day. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, February 21, 1891 With regard to England we stand entirely independent of her: we are not a hair's-breadth more dependent on England than England is on us. William of Germany In the measure in which that is your heart's desire, and not one hair's-breadth further, have you a right to call yourself a Christian. Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) "But, my best, worthiest gentlemen!" said the student Anselmus, "do you not feel, then, that you are all and sundry corked up in glass bottles, and cannot for your hearts walk a hair's-breadth?" The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 05 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English I watched the doors painfully, to see that not one was left open a hair's-breadth, until the time Miss Axtell went up to her own room. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 63, January, 1863 No fear of that," answered James, confidently, still continuing to throw the stones; "I can come within a hair's-breadth of her, and not touch her. Frank, the Young Naturalist The same barrel will play a fresh tune by a hair's-breadth shifting of a spring. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 56, June, 1862 The genuineness of the check had been almost taken for granted—entire success had been missed, as it were, by a hair's-breadth. Bred in the Bone In fact, the present Constitution of the United States was strenuously opposed by large political factions, and, it may almost be said, succeeded by only a hair's-breadth. Abraham Lincoln, a History — Volume 02 As he withdrew it, the door-keeper slashed at his abdomen, missed by a hair's-breadth, raised his arm to save his neck from a slash, and was stabbed to the heart, the knife held dagger-wise. Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life How it picks and chooses, taking a man here and leaving a man there by just a hair's-breadth of difference. The Soul of the War I guess the gods were offended at my presumption and determined by one hair's-breadth shift to destroy the balance of my whole structure. Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories For an instant a savage, puerile feeling of hate popped up in my bosom, and I came within a hair's-breadth of obeying my foremost impulse—that of stuffing the document into the fire. Stories by American Authors, Volume 5 O Belford! what a hair's-breadth escape have I had!—Such a one, that I tremble between terror and joy, at the thought of what might have happened, and did not. Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 6 All love and all success were pressed into a hair's-breadth, and yet the target was never missed. This Is the End Ten times he was saved by a hair's-breadth from a fall; ten times he righted himself again and a strange and bubbling voice jerked out defiance to the horse. Alcatraz There is not a hair's-breadth space between any two of his words, nor is there a single expression either ill-chosen or out of its place. The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits I have lost no old likings or dislikings; my memory has not failed me by a hair's-breadth. Barnaby Rudge: a tale of the Riots of 'eighty No general stupor having occurred, she was requested to move her arm; but she could not lift it a hair's-breadth from her side. Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 3 For the first time it stood open, though by but a hair's-breadth: and there was a light within. Dombey and Son He began to wonder: what would happen if he waited until the finger tips were within a hair's-breadth of his nose? Alcatraz I know not how many hair's-breadth escapes we may have had while these thoughts passed through my brain. James Pethel Laugh not again, lest the hair's-breadth be wanting. Allan Quatermain With all my strength I hurled myself upon him, missing my clutch again by a hair's-breadth and going headlong into the salt furrow his chest was turning up. Gulliver of Mars He saw that what had happened had happened, and that a thousand words would not alter matters by a hair's-breadth. The Red Fairy Book I was within a hair's-breadth of the last opportunity for pronouncement, and I found with humiliation that probably I would have nothing to say. Heart of Darkness Miss Leary had missed by a hair's-breadth the psychological moment, and felt some resentment toward the little negroes who had interrupted her lover's train of thought. The House Behind the Cedars For a space hast thou stood within a hair's-breadth of death. Allan Quatermain Nothing ever tempted him a hair's-breadth out of the path he had been bred to walk in. The Market-Place "Not a hair's-breadth," said the voice, and it was the smallest voice that ever spoke. At the Back of the North Wind Trying is violent exercise, and that sort of thing isn't in order for a man with a hole in his side as big as your hat, that begins to bleed if he moves a hair's-breadth. The American "Suppose anything you please, Miss Clack, it wouldn't shake my belief in Rachel Verinder by a hair's-breadth." The Moonstone There is some little coil of my brain, the twentieth of a hair's-breadth out of order—that's all! Hauntings Our Southern opponents, we acknowledge, committed some "irregularities"; but nobody can assert, that, in dealing with them, we deviated, by a hair's-breadth, from the powers intrusted to the Government by the Fathers of the Republic. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862 The wax will yield but a hair's-breadth each time, but a hair's-breadth counts, and in a few minutes the seal will be lifted entire. The Cavalier She would play the same piece a hundred times without varying the performance by a hair's-breadth. The Lovels of Arden He had been within a hair's-breadth of refusing to act as executor, and of allowing this magnificent jewel to be lost to the family. The Moonstone He could copy a drawing to a hair's-breadth, but never drew. The Vicar's Daughter Then a ripple of laughter broke the stillness, and a little finger was thrust out, stopping within a hair's-breadth of the dot of Chinese white, still wet, which topped my burnt-umber figure. The Under Dog We also pointed out that he had escaped being telescoped or drowned by the merest hair's-breadth. The Forest Everything, the commonest, well done, is something for the progress of the world; that is, lessens, if by the smallest hair's-breadth, the distance between it and God. Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood Thus Mytilene escaped destruction by a hair's-breadth, and Athens was saved from committing a great crime. Stories from Thucydides He will excuse him to the very uttermost of truth, but not a hair's-breadth beyond it; he is his true father, and will have his child true as his son Jesus Christ is true. Unspoken Sermons Series I., II., and II. But there is another way of coming to this arbitrament,—inevitable, if they deviate a hair's-breadth from the strict line of law,—should they deem there is no other remedy for their wrongs. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858 Because he chooses to have such a mother, am I to bring her a hair's-breadth nearer to my uncle! The Flight of the Shadow She sat sideways to the door, so that without turning her head she must have seen the parson enter, but she did not move a visible hair's-breadth. There & Back All the pictorial adjectives in the dictionary will not bring it a hair's-breadth nearer to truth and nature. Among My Books Second Series It does not consist in obeying this or that law; not even the keeping of every law, so that no hair's-breadth did we run counter to one of them, would be righteousness. Unspoken Sermons Series I., II., and II. Then I would watch every inch and hair's-breadth of the progress of the season; and not a leaf should put itself forth, in the vicinity of our old mansion, without my noting it. Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 2. When she had once made up her mind in the negative, no foolish attempt of mine could overpersuade her—could make her trust our weight on it a hair's-breadth. The Flight of the Shadow Had he driven his nail one hair's-breadth too near the quick, Miss Brown would have made the smithy tight for them! There & Back Now it is precisely this audacity of self-reliance, I suspect, which goes far toward making the sublime, and which, falling by a hair's-breadth short thereof, makes the ridiculous. Among My Books Second Series What room for honesty, where love fills full the law to overflowing—where a man would rather drop sheer into the abyss, than wrong his neighbour one hair's-breadth? Unspoken Sermons Series I., II., and II. You have missed your calling by something more than a hair's-breadth, Morty. A Fool for Love I moved not an inch, spoke not a word, drew not a step nearer, retreated not a hair's-breadth. The Flight of the Shadow And you and I are Christians just in the measure in which that coincidence of wills is true about us, and not one hair's-breadth further, for all our professions. Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII This same eye could keep its watch, also, over the entire establishment, with no need of the huge body to which it was attached moving a hair's-breadth. In and out of Three Normady Inns Draw from it ever so much, it sinks not one hair's-breadth in its pure basin. Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms Teresa noiselessly drew back the bolt; and, opening the baize door by a mere hair's-breadth, admitted sound from the sitting-room. Heart and Science A Story of the Present Time She shrank from seeming to press into his life a hair's-breadth farther than he was prepared to have her go. Sanctuary When the terrible and immediate peril has been staved off by such a mere hair's-breadth, why listen again to "the chronic appetite" which "calls for its habitual dose?" The Opium Habit They have during the last eighty years made an enormous addition to the sum of that knowledge, but they have not, since Democritus, taken away one hair's-breadth from the Mystery which lies behind. Reflections and Comments 1865-1895 No man who writes thus, on the verge of another world, would willingly swerve by so much as a hair's-breadth from what he believes to be the truth. Memoirs of Sir Wemyss Reid 1842-1885 His interference, however, had nearly been productive of most unfortunate consequences; for a massive andiron, with round brazen head, whizzed past him, within a hair's-breadth of his ear. Fanshawe Such 'boldness and access with confidence' will often make short work of so-called seemly reverence, but it will never transgress by so much as a hair's-breadth the limits of lowly, trustful love. Expositions of Holy Scripture The moment you depart a hair's-breadth from its immaculate principle there is no medium state between that and roguery. The Reminiscences of Sir Henry Hawkins (Baron Brampton) Kiddo, this last week has been a whole sea story; in itself— just one hair's-breadth escape after another. Roy Blakeley's Adventures in Camp And now they fell upon the omelet, which was round, sufficiently thick, and cooked, so to speak, to a hair's-breadth. The Book of Household Management Jervis was threading her needle when her mistress uttered that cry; but her hand did not tremble, nor did the thread deflect a hair's-breadth from the straight line. Old Lady Mary A Story of the Seen and the Unseen The verdict was also fair enough," Dave continued, "for I am aware that I took a hair's-breadth more than the count. Dave Darrin's Second Year at Annapolis Or, Two Midshipmen as Naval Academy "Youngsters" This stickler for etiquette was absolutely shocked; he held up his hands, began a declamation on the rules of evidence, and uttered so many Pharisaical platitudes that I only escaped annihilation by a hair's-breadth. The Reminiscences of Sir Henry Hawkins (Baron Brampton) Such things made him suffer, but he never flinched from the occasion by a hair's-breadth. Hawthorne and His Circle He escaped shipwreck as by a hair's-breadth, from the sawyer which had attracted the notice of Jack. The Lost Trail He would die for them, and, what is more rare, he would not swerve a hair's-breadth from them for any worldly advantage, or for fear of any hardship. Rudin Headstrong chief of a headlong race, no will must depart a hair's-breadth from his; and fifty years of arrogant port had stiffened a neck too stiff at birth. Mary Anerley : a Yorkshire Tale But darling, if familiar with that form of address, must have been slumbering, for she never turned or moved a hair's-breadth or gave a symptom of intelligence. The Arctic Prairies : a Canoe-Journey of 2,000 Miles in Search of the Caribou; Being the Account of a Voyage to the Region North of Aylemer Lake Yet, child as she was, they found to their indignant astonishment that she would not move a hair's-breadth from the path her conscience approved. England under the Tudors He is very resolute; and, in a matter of this kind, you could not move him a hair's-breadth. The Earth Trembled I am just as strong as you are, and you could not make me yield a hair's-breadth. Greifenstein And yet, like the earthquake-roll, it had in that one moment jarred every belief, and hope, and memory of his being each a hair's-breadth from its place.... Hypatia — or New Foes with an Old Face How to a hair's-breadth will he command and guide them with his eye at all times, when they should either turn to the right hand or to the left. Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 When he set an end before himself, no influence could make him waver a hair's-breadth in his pursuit of it, and he spared neither friend nor foe in the attainment of it. England under the Tudors They tore along, dodging in and out between trucks and automobiles, ambulances and artillery caissons, horse-wagons and mule-wagons, achieving again and again those hair's-breadth escapes which are the joy in life of every normal motor-cyclist. Jimmie Higgins If William Durgin had testified falsely on that point, if he had swerved a hair's-breadth from the truth in that matter, then there was but one conclusion to be drawn from his perjury. The Stillwater Tragedy Whizz came a flint, apparently out of the air, and missed Mr. Marvel's shoulder by a hair's-breadth. The Invisible Man We instinctively aim the forefinger at the object to a hair's-breadth of exactness. Sant' Ilario Presently the now well-known step and well-known tap at the door were heard, and the Diva, without stirring a hair's-breadth from her charmingly-chosen attitude, spoke, in a silver voice, the "Passi" which admitted her visitor. A Siren Again the tide raised its broad shoulders a hair's-breadth. Aladdin O'Brien All my life seemed suddenly to hang on the point of a hair's-breadth of possibility. The Life Everlasting; a reality of romance The dogs required their daily ration, and they got it -- measured out to a hair's-breadth. The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian Antarctic expedition in the "Fram," 1910-12 — Volume 1 and Volume 2 An acid humor stirred in his Forsyte blood; a subtle pain divided by hair's-breadth from pleasure. To Let Day by day and year by year their two strong wills had been silently opposed, and neither the one nor the other had ever been unconscious of the struggle, nor had either yielded a hair's-breadth. The Witch of Prague At high noon the sun has reached within a hair's-breadth of the third bull's-eye from the bottom. The Gates of Chance That hair's-breadth deviation of the bullet made all the difference.' The Trial It was this hair's-breadth escape which drew from the agonized mother that shriek which, pealing through the open stern window, had roused the soldiers in the boat. For the Term of His Natural Life The dogs required their daily ration, and they got it — measured out to a hair's-breadth. The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the "Fram," 1910-1912 — Volume 1 But, because the law says a man is a blackguard, when I'd stake my life he's nothing of the kind, it doesn't alter my opinion one hair's-breadth. The Hermit of Far End "Ah!" said Eberhard with a long breath, after having listened with a hunter's keen interest to this hair's-breadth escape, "it sounds like a gust of my mountain air thus let in on me." The Dove in the Eagle's Nest I have raised 700-800 seedlings from cowslips, artificially fertilised with care; and they presented not a hair's-breadth approach to oxlips. More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 One hair's-breadth from the unknown path of truth, one shadow of impurity in the mysterious light of faith, and there shall be anathema! anathema! anathema! Eminent Victorians Old experience had taught him that the way to meet the horrors of the fancy is to refuse them a single hair's-breadth of obedience. Donal Grant, by George MacDonald But he only grew very red, and then—no, I am not departing by a hair's-breadth from the truth—it is true— that he took this unworthy hand in his, and shook it! Poor Folk And most of all, unbearable to think how narrowly it has missed being a signal triumph;—missed actually by a single hair's-breadth, which is as good as by a mile, or by a thousand miles! History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 19 Congress ate its dinner heartily, and wrote immensely, for the space of eighteen months; but advanced no hair's-breadth any-whither; no prospect before it, but that of dinner only, for unlimited periods. History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 06 France was within a hair's-breadth of becoming actually Protestant. History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 03 Or, this: That the whole universe, her own sex and yours, and Providence, or Destiny, to boot, make common cause against the woman who swerves one hair's-breadth out of the beaten track. The Blithedale Romance I know not what is mine and what is thine— Of branch and stem I miss the differing mark— But if a mere hair's-breadth me separateth, That hair's-breadth is eternal, infinite death. A Book of Strife in the Form of The Diary of an Old Soul But nothing Pepper said could turn me a hair's-breadth from my purpose. The Story of a Bad Boy His antagonist's bullet had passed near enough to the side of his neck to tear the flesh, and had missed the vital parts, literally, by a hair's-breadth. Little Novels A sudden shuddering shook her from head to foot—the forewarning, it might be, of the influence which that letter, saved from destruction by a hair's-breadth, was destined to exercise on her life to come. Man and Wife Without altering the course a hair's-breadth we slipped by each other within an oar's-length. Some Reminiscences Allow me to cut away a bit of this strange substance, sir," he said to Raphael; "it is so extraordinary——" "A bit!" exclaimed Raphael; "not so much as a hair's-breadth. The Magic Skin I do not see a hair's-breadth of difference between attracting custom and forcing your goods upon the consumer. The Firm of Nucingen Martin Cole, I will not go a hair's-breadth out of my way for Dene or any other man. Heritage of the Desert With many hair's-breadth escapes, the expedition now passed through the rapids or "great shoot." First Across the Continent The story of the exploring expedition of Lewis and Clark in 1804-5-6 Goupil, he fully believed, was the only man capable of carrying a persecution to the very verge of the penal code without infringing a hair's-breadth upon it. Ursula I stuck out my head, and escaped by a hair's-breadth. The First Men in the Moon |
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