Sentence example with the word 'hairbreadth'

hairbreadth

ace, close quarters, crack, gunshot, incapaciousness, little, nearness, short distance, span, strictness

Last update: August 18, 2015


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" Kit " Carson occupies in the latter period of American pioneer history a position somewhat similar to that held by Daniel Boone and David Crockett at an earlier period, as the typical frontier hero and Indian fighter, and his hairbreadth escapes and personal prowess are the subject of innumerable stories.   [Please select]

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I had nearly forgotten what looked like a hairbreadth escape.   [Please select]

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They do so, and meet with many adventures and hairbreadth escapes.   [Please select]

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Luc himself, a man whose battles and hairbreadth escapes surpassed fiction.   [Please select]

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He has many hairbreadth escapes, is several times wounded and twice taken prisoner; but his courage and readiness bring him safely through all difficulties.   [Please select]

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The lad's journey across France with his faithful attendant Malcolm, and his hairbreadth escapes from the machinations of his father's enemies, make up as good a narrative of the kind as we have ever read.   [Please select]

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