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A strong shudder convulsed his frame. "Don't remind me of it!" "There's been a species of slump, then, in dusky-haired lambs?" "How," demanded Bill, savagely, "can a girl be a dusky-haired lamb when her hair's bright scarlet?" "Dashed difficult!" admitted Archie. "I suppose Lucille told you about that?" "She did touch on it. Lightly, as it were. With a sort of gossamer touch, so to speak."
So potent was the spell of the mosque's witchery that the next instant I should have forgotten both door and panel had not Joe touched the toe of my boot with his own he was sitting close to me and in explanation lifted his eyebrow a hair's breadth, his eyes fixed on the slowly sliding panel sliding noiselessly, an inch at a time. Only then did my mind act.
"How does anybody know it, when more than half of himself is just so much dead matter; when the division line between the dead part and the alive doesn't move along by so much as one hair's breadth; when the dead part is dead past any resurrection? It is my body, Whittenden. I know it for a fact." There was no especial answer to be made. Whittenden had the superlative good sense to attempt none.
"So far, I've just missed being what I should have been; doing what I should have done by a hair's breadth. I did pretty well in college, but thereafter, when things begin to count! Law? I never got over the humiliation of my first ridiculous failure. Business? I made a fortune in six weeks, lost it in a month, and was lucky to get out without having to mortgage a farm. Politics?
I knew in my conscience I had done all that was possible to fulfill my vow in regard to my mother. The blame must fall upon destiny. the wretch had half-raised himself, and was looking at me; I bent over him, and put the barrel of my revolver within a hair's breadth of his temple. "There is still time," I said.
Vingie, that Jessie asked just to have the news spread, got up mad as a hornet and marched out, saying she was too old to be insulted. "Until a week ago Bessie Williams wouldn't speak to Alex. You know her hair's got awful white this last year and of course, her being kind of stout, she does look older than Al.
I haven't deviated a hair's breadth. Somewhere about here should be the first landmark three rocks shaped like a camel lying down. But I can't see them." "Nothing to worry about in that," said Frank. "Probably we haven't gone far enough. Let's push on." "That must be it," said Jack with relief. "Well, come on." Before they could get into motion, however, Bob uttered a warning whisper.
But I'll tell you one thing, if this dumb stove is ever moved either way out of this door if I ever get it into a room agin, it never shall be stirred agin so much as a hair's breadth not while I have got the breath of life in me." Sez I, "Hush! I hear somebody a-knockin' at the door." "I won't hush.
Tell me, like one good fellow to another, is there any one else that you care for? And if there is I'll never trouble you a hair's breadth again, but will be, if you will let me, a very faithful friend." My dear Mina, why are men so noble when we women are so little worthy of them? Here was I almost making fun of this great hearted, true gentleman.
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.
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