| 单词 | hairsbreadth |
| 例句 | Criminal and cop are separated only by a hairsbreadth of circumstance. Denise Mina’s ‘Blood, Salt, Water’: An atmospheric, chilling thriller 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z “This is why last year was much more stressful in many ways. We did come within a hairsbreadth of triaging patients last year.” California surpasses astonishing 6 million COVID-19 infections as Omicron wave expands 2022-01-10T05:00:00Z Though it lasts only 73 minutes, “Tito” is jammed with enough action, adventure and hairsbreadth escapes to energize a much longer feature. Review: The visually imaginative animation ‘Tito and the Birds’ speaks to today 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z These factors could already be steering the world ever closer to a new Cuban Missile Crisis, when the world came within a hairsbreadth of nuclear incineration. On the road to World War III? 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z Also returning is the first film's zesty mixture of whip-smart, knowing dialogue, hairsbreadth escapes and realistic family dynamics made more involving by being filtered through parents and children gifted and burdened with super powers. 'Incredibles 2' is the superhero family saga we need right now 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z Sagan won the race by a hairsbreadth with some deft sprinting at the finish line. Racing through Flanders Fields 2018-04-07T04:00:00Z Most people might be in a bit of a flap on hairsbreadth avoidance of death. We love Harrison Ford even when he’s causing real life havoc. Here’s why | Catherine Shoard 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z Another hairsbreadth escape came while Mr. Keeley was second in command in the U.S embassy in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Robert V. Keeley, outspoken ambassador, dies at 85 2015-01-10T05:00:00Z This progress culminated in the development of quantum electrodynamics, whose accuracy in Richard Feynman’s words is equivalent to calculating the distance between New York and Los Angeles within a hairsbreadth. Theories, models and the future of science 2012-09-05T18:15:02.587Z Now, one of them escaped annihilation by a hairsbreadth, while the thundering vivas went up to the glaring sky, and a comrade turned the tormented beast again. For Jacinta 2012-01-27T03:00:20.840Z It was just one of those exciting moments when you miss a thing just by a hairsbreadth, as it were. The Heath Hover Mystery 2011-12-01T03:00:22.357Z "Yes, sir," replied the man, but looking neither to the right nor left, nor unbending from his stiff, upright position a hairsbreadth. The Heatherford Fortune a sequel to the Magic Cameo 2011-11-15T03:00:18.930Z But his lordship, while believing her statement, swerved not a hairsbreadth from his original and private opinion. Dorrien of Cranston 2011-07-07T02:00:31.540Z He knew to a hairsbreadth just where the trimming blade should strike the log to get the maximum square of timber. The Trail of the Axe A Story of Red Sand Valley 2011-06-27T02:00:56.823Z Nay, not dead; but stark Outstretched, a hairsbreadth this side of the dark. Euripedes and His Age 2011-03-05T03:00:26.617Z Although he is virtually certain London will be his last Games, Hoy is keeping the door open, a hairsbreadth. Sir Chris Hoy in gear for Manchester's three-day World Cup meeting 2011-02-17T15:31:12Z It was a fit ending to the first stage of Canadian history—a hopeless venture, a confession of weakness, a hairsbreadth escape. A Historical Geography of the British Colonies Vol. V, Canada—Part I, Historical Ah, good God! why had he escaped by a hairsbreadth, as it were, from the deadliest of perils that night on the seashore! Dorrien of Cranston 2011-07-07T02:00:31.540Z The fist missed the Angelic shoulder by a hairsbreadth, and the tinker collapsed in a heap with his face against the parapet of the bridge. The Wonderful Visit Possibly nationality did count in the long run, though, where love was the consideration, Aletta, for her part, could not understand how nationality should make a hairsbreadth of difference. Aletta A Tale of the Boer Invasion He carefully turned an unconnected control knob a hairsbreadth with utmost deliberation and precision. The Kenzie Report This mildest and meekest of girls and wives was not to be moved a hairsbreadth by all argument or entreaty, or insistence on a husband's rights. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901 Frank King followed Madge, and it was most extraordinary how she was always missing by a hairsbreadth, and leaving balls over pockets. The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols Nor am I disinclined to invent a species of machinery for this purpose; being anxious to fulfil, with hairsbreadth accuracy, all the requisitions that are made of epic poets, even on the side of form. The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works He was more than once within a hairsbreadth of death but at length he was brought by his master, Kakinathucca, to his home. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920 Two people can travel side by side without advancing a single hairsbreadth towards acquaintance if they choose. The Splendid Folly When old Henry Ford made up his mind on any p'int a cyclone wouldn't turn him a hairsbreadth—no, nor an earthquake neither. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901 He had a habit of darting them around a wide circle of objects, without turning his head a hairsbreadth. Adèle Dubois A Story of the Lovely Miramichi Valley in New Brunswick The Marquis d'Aubremel was within a hairsbreadth of that utterly crushed state that ends in madness, or in suicide—which is only a variety of madness. The Aldine, Vol. 5, No. 1., January, 1872 A Typographic Art Journal "You heard my terms, and nothing that you can urge will move me a hairsbreadth from them." Winston of the Prairie To know to a hairsbreadth how far you can go with a man, to know when to give him his head with the snaffle and when to draw him in with the curb. The Divine Fire It has already been remarked in these pages that he was pre-eminently one of those men whose expanding opinions never alter by a hairsbreadth the actual ground-plan of their moral sense. Robert Browning As he spoke I became aware of a thin thread of almost intolerable light, let down from heaven at an immense distance--one vertical hairsbreadth of frozen lightning. A Diversity of Creatures Whatever might have been placed in the other, would have seemed light; all the objections in the world would not have moved it a hairsbreadth. Recollections of My Youth Her excitement had missed by a hairsbreadth the spiritual climax. The Three Sisters And now Gilbert of the White Hand led the shooting, and 'twas only by the space of a hairsbreadth upon the line that Tepus tied his score. Robin Hood But the prospect did not turn him a hairsbreadth from his course. Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts I think, mamma, I never depart a hairsbreadth from your will. The Storm The Pope had never yielded a hairsbreadth to the Empire, but, on the contrary, had plundered it immoderately by his lying and deceit and idolatry. Life of Luther Precisely so much of it as is needed is permitted, and not one hairsbreadth more. Expositions of Holy Scripture : St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII But their general rode out under fire of the guns, and, smiling as a cannon ball just missed him by a hairsbreadth, said:— "Come, who is to take that village—the Highlanders or the 64th?" Beneath the Banner Many of you believe the Gospel intellectually, and it does not make a hairsbreadth of difference to anything that you ever either thought or wished or did. Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts Not by a hairsbreadth has all that has passed in the interval lowered you in my eyes. When We Dead Awaken It cut me with such keen regret; it fired me with such hot rage—that I was within a hairsbreadth of tearing the rest of it up unread, and trampling it under my feet. Poor Miss Finch A single error of a hairsbreadth, of the smallest conceivable portion of time, would be fatal: the precision of the movements must be like a mathematical truth, their rapidity is like lightning. Table Talk Essays on Men and Manners The man who had stolen this thing from him and bettered it by a hairsbreadth was doubtless a millionaire by now on the strength of it. The Great Hunger He disarmed suspicion by transparent honesty, and he impelled respect for his words by always promising or giving warning of not a hairsbreadth more than he was perfectly willing and thoroughly prepared to perform. Theodore Roosevelt and His Times Some bade him go home if he would not take the steps, but he said that he would rather make his grave in the slough than go back one hairsbreadth. Bunyan Characters (1st Series) |
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