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Updated: June 30, 2025
The years of struggle for perfection had not been wasted; and though the eye that once detected the deviation of a hair's breadth could no longer tell the true from the false, yet nature had been busy with her divine work of compensation. The one sense stricken with death, she poured floods of new life and vigor into the others.
Several times in South Africa K., so doing, carried the Imperial Standard to victory through a series of hair's breadth escapes. But to-day, though he sees, the power of believing in his own vision and of hanging on to it like a bulldog, seems paralysed. He hesitates. Ten short years ago, if K.'s heart had been set on Constantinople, why, to Constantinople he would have gone.
"He do you mean your father?" The boy no, he was a young man now, but scarcely looked more than a boy assented silently, as if afraid to utter the name. "Would not your coming here displease him?" said John, always tenacious of trenching a hair's breadth upon any lawful authority. "It matters not he is away. He has left me these six months alone at Luxmore."
Casey Ryan is a friend and more than a friend: he's a pet theory of mine a fad, if you prefer to call him that. "I consider him a perfect example of human nature in its unhampered, unbiased state, going straight through life without deviating a hair's breadth from the viewpoint of youth. A fighter and a castle builder; a sort of rough-edged Peter Pan.
"She's like you, Julie," Miss Toland said, extending a ringed finger for her namesake's amusement. "Yes, I think she is; every one says so. You see her hair's coming to be the same ashy yaller as mine. And see the fat sweet little knees, and don't miss our new slippers with wosettes on 'em!"
It was a fortunate movement, for the shark ran his snout against the side, missing Tom's foot almost by a hair's breadth. Tom felt the brute's head strike against the boat, and well knew what had happened. It made him draw his breath quickly; but he had work before him. Without stopping a moment, he and Jerry, seizing the oars, rapidly pulled the boat back to the beach.
The monkey is dead." "I am glad to hear it." "Why?" "I thought the creature was living in pain." "What do you mean?" "I mean that I heard a moaning " "Where?" "In the building behind your house." "You heard the wind in the trees." "Nothing of the sort. Are your chemical experiments ever made on animals?" The doctor parried that direct attack, without giving ground by so much as a hair's breadth.
This last blind rush of the Sabellian bull on the lair of the wolves, which Pontius had told his followers they must destroy, had failed only by a hair's breadth, and since the days of the Gauls Rome had never been in such peril. But now at last Sulla had triumphed, and could afford to gratify his pent-up passion for vengeance. They were half starving and could resist no longer.
While they were there, with their enticement and their memories, prayer would never come. But did she want to pray? Did she desire the mood of that poor soul in her black shawl, who had not moved by one hair's breadth since she had been watching her, who seemed resting her humble self so utterly, letting life lift from her, feeling the relief of nothingness?
I had the feeling that I held her faith in him in my hands, carrying it like a brittle object through a jostling mob; a hair's- breadth swerve and it was in splinters. When she wasn't there I tried to reason myself out of these subtleties.
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