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They had crossed the main road leading to Great Maidos, they had had hairbreadth escapes sufficient to last most folk for a lifetime, and now at a little after one in the morning, they had crossed the whole peninsula, and were facing the famous Narrows, with their double cordon of forts on both sides of the Straits, the nut which for so many weeks all the Powers of the British and French combined had been engaged in trying to crack.
Luc himself, a man whose battles and hairbreadth escapes surpassed fiction. Around him gathered spirits dauntless and kindred, and here already was the nucleus of the larger force that he was destined to lead in so many a daring deed. Now his fierce face showed pleasure, as he shook the hunter's powerful hand with his own hand almost as powerful.
Do you trust to God's saving mercy? Ah, of course you believe in a God? Who, except a philosopher, can reason a Maker away? But that the Maker will alter His courses to hear you; that, whether or not you trust in Him, or in your doctor, it will change by a hairbreadth the thing that must be do you believe this, Allen Fenwick?"
Again and again we studied the adventures of Bill Biddon, the Indian spy, not only on account of his hairbreadth escapes when he eluded the Indians after a miraculous fashion and detected the presence of the red varmint by the turning of a leaf on the ground, but also in order to find out new methods of deceit by which we could allure our Indians into narrow places, or daring methods of attack by which we could successfully outflank them on the broader street and drive them into their own retreats with public ignominy.
Come, did you have any 'hairbreadth' 'scapes or moving accidents by field and flood?" "Nary one. My life has been one dead, monotonous waste." "Like ... the deuce it has. Come, I've got just ten minutes to stay; tell me the whole detailed history of your two years and a half.
The previous perils of shipwreck, and the various hairbreadth escapes through which she had more recently passed, made her last danger all the lighter to bear; for by these her child's spirit had become steeled to endurance, and her courage was equal to that of a full-grown woman. Otherwise the fearful situation in which she had been placed, if leaving life, might have deprived her of reason.
He bore the chains very lightly at first with a hundred hairbreadth 'scapes which made the struggle as even that struggle can be made while the sufferer is strong and young almost exhilarating, with a glee in the relief and the power to surmount every difficulty, and a faith strengthened by numberless examples of the certainty however dark things might seem up to the very last moment of bursting through, with an exquisite sensation of success, the hardest coil of circumstance.
The air at the convent had accomplished its healing work. We were both practically recovered, and we had had a hairbreadth escape; but I was firmly convinced that an underground chamber is preferable to a two-storied mansion when a 6-inch 100-pound shell gun, at a distance of two miles, is bombarding the town you happen to be residing in. "And so we sat tight."
Following his directions implicitly, his companions, who carried the ammunition, also reached the fort, and it was saved. His rencounters with the Indians, and his hairbreadth escapes make no inconsiderable figure in the subsequent annals of Kentucky. The year after the siege of his fort, on a hunting excursion, he discovered an Indian camp, at Big Flat Spring, two miles from his station.
They have had such hairbreadth escapes, haven't they, Unity? she continued to the parlour-maid who was standing at the door. 'Yes, miss, that they have! said Unity with round-eyed commiseration. 'Once 'twas in the lane that I found one of them, pursued Elfride reflectively. 'And then 'twas by the gate into Eighteen Acres, Unity chimed in.
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