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We have now, as is believed, presented with entire fairness a summary of the more important aspects in which the constitutional objections mentioned have been urged. I would not underrate by a hair's breadth the authority of these great names, the weight of these continuous reassertions of principle, the sanction even of the precedent and general practice through a century.
As it was, the shielding tree trunk prevented it, and, grazing the bark, they were driven into the yielding earth half a foot deep. The buck immediately reared and repeated the terrible blow several times, missing the body of the lad by what may be called a hair's breadth. The animal was in a fury, and, believing his foe was at his mercy, he showed him none.
"Oh, she'll like you, a course!" nodded Small Porges, "I know she'll like you 'cause you're so different to Mr. Cassilis, he's got black hair, an' a mestache, you know, an' your hair's gold, like mine, an' your mestache isn't there, is it? An' I know she doesn't like Mr. Cassilis, an' I don't, either, 'cause "
He was right as to the arrangement of the letters; he was right as to the language. He had been within a hair's breadth of reading this Latin document from end to end; but that hair's breadth, chance had given it to me! You may be sure I felt stirred up. My eyes were dim, I could scarcely see. I had laid the paper upon the table. At a glance I could tell the whole secret.
But you'll come, won't you, and make it all right? Put on something loose and cool; that lovely black lace jacket with the violet lining, and your gray silk skirt. It won't take you a minute. Your hair's perfectly sweet now." And Sylvie hurried away. Mrs.
Like ants impotent in their strife they swarmed, and to a watcher from another world they must have appeared like insects in the crater of Vesuvius in eruption. Yet the mind of man, so much greater than his body, had organized and planned this monstrous scene, and from his method it deviated not a hair's breadth.
Her face flushed as she thought of what his love must be. He saw his vantage and drew nearer it may be a hair's breadth over the line of respect indeed 'twould have been an innovation had he not done so, as the time warranted nothing else but a show at virtue. "Your Grace finds a maid that is heart whole; but I would aid others to their desire. I but act as post-boy 'twixt tree and castle."
His managers at Charleston offered the Cincinnati platform of 1856, with the addition of a demand for Cuba and an indorsement of the Dred Scott decision and of any future decisions of the Supreme Court on slavery in the Territories. But the Southerners would not yield a hair's breadth.
Someone was following me, but I never thought of stopping to see who. My mind was now quite clear. If the express had not passed the semaphore she might yet be stopped. The semaphore was nearly a quarter of a mile from the station, and the arm was down. If the engine had passed it by a hair's breadth, ninety-nine chances out of a hundred the engineer would go on.
You're always sneaking about in the dark. Why, if I'd been wounded I should be proud of my scars." "Should you?" said Mark, passing his hand over his bald head and scorched eyebrows. "Well, I'm not, and I shan't care about showing myself till my hair's grown." "Look here, I'll get the armourer to make you a wig out of some oakum."
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