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Updated: June 30, 2025
Lit up, in the agitation of speaking, by many a harsh or scornful beam, yet always sinking, in moments of repose, to an expression of high-bred melancholy, it was a face that looked, after all, made for suffering already half pleading, half defiant as of a creature you could hurt, but to the last never shake a hair's breadth from its estimate of yourself.
Our present concern, however, is with the course taken by the present Government. Have they hitherto yielded to the clamour with which they have been assailed, and departed from the principle of affording efficient protection to the agriculture of the country? Not a hair's breadth; nor will they.
It was mighty kind of you, too." "Huh!" retorted Hi. "This is only one game lost, and by a hair's breadth. Wait until the end of the season, and see who carries the laurels." "Prescott, what do these letters mean on your jersey?" asked Ted Teall, halting and squinting at the golden yellow emblems. "C.G.?" smiled Dick. "That's for Central Grammar, of course.
"She's begun to be downright pretty since she's filled out and lost her ugly little sour look. Her hair's grown thick and healthy looking and she's got a bright color. The glummest, ill-natured little thing she used to be and now her and Master Colin laugh together like a pair of crazy young ones. Perhaps they're growing fat on that." "Perhaps they are," said Dr. Craven. "Let them laugh."
It was there that Elizabeth found him. She had forgotten her displeasure at David, and was wildly happy; but she had missed Blair, and had come, in a dancing whirl of excitement, to find him. "What are you doing? Come right back to the parlor!" Blair, turning, saw the smooth cheek, pink as the curve of a shell, the soft hair's bronze sheen, the amber darkness of the happy eyes.
He could not help but conquer. He drove the spirit of temptation from his breast, and enthroned in its stead the principle of everlasting right. There was no thought now of yielding; he felt brave and strong to meet every trial, yes, every terror that might lie in his path, without flinching one hair's breadth from the stern line of duty.
As they reached the gates of Mons, they found themselves within a hair's breadth of being too late; their adherents had not come forth; the citizens had been aroused; the gates were all fast but one and there the porter was quarrelling with a French soldier about an arquebuss.
In this circular, addressed to the magistracies of Holland, he urged his countrymen once more with arguments already employed by him, and in more strenuous language than ever, to beware of a truce even more than of a peace, and warned them not to swerve by a hair's breadth from the formula in regard to the sovereignty agreed upon at the very beginning of the negotiations.
"Uncle, you ask it everything," whispered Tim, "simply everything!" "Say how we love it, please," sighed Judy. "I feel it closing both my eyes." "It's over all my face," put in Maria, drawing her breath in loudly. "But my hair's lifting!" Judy exclaimed. "Oh, it's lovely, lovely!" Uncle Felix straightened himself up in the darkness. They could hear him breathing with the effort.
At my suggestion Perry stopped the generator, and as we came to rest I again threw all my strength into a supreme effort to move the thing even a hair's breadth but the results were as barren as when we had been traveling at top speed. I shook my head sadly, and motioned to the starting lever.
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