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Chalk, with the stem of his long pipe withdrawn from his open mouth, would sit enthralled as his host narrated picturesque incidents of hairbreadth escapes, or, drawing his chair to the table, made rough maps for his listener's clearer understanding. Sometimes the captain took him to palm-studded islands in the Southern Seas; sometimes to the ancient worlds of China and Japan.
Do you know that was one of the most hairbreadth escapes of my life? If Fletcher Hill had caught me, he wouldn't have shown much mercy any more than he would now," he added, with a half-laugh. "He's a terrific man for justice." "Surely you're safe now!" Dot said, quickly. "If you don't give me away," said Warden. "I!" She started, almost winced.
Neale had read all about Starmidge's activities in both cases, and of the hairbreadth escape he had gone through in connection with the second. And he had formed an idea of him which he now saw to be a totally erroneous one. For Starmidge did not look at all like a detective in Neale's opinion.
Having set it without any of the above untoward accidents occurring, Harry placed it gently on a hole which he had previously scraped placing it in such a manner that the jaws and plate, or trigger, were a hairbreadth below the level of the snow.
The old-fashioned straw hive is picturesque, and a great favorite with the bees also. The life of a swarm of bees is like an active and hazardous campaign of an army; the ranks are being continually depleted, and continually recruited. What adventures they have by flood and field, and what hairbreadth escapes!
One day Greenleaf, returning from a week-long circuit of outposts, found awaiting him a letter bearing Northern imprints of mailing and forwarding, from Hilary Kincaid, written long before in prison and telling another whole history, of a kind so common in war that we have already gone by it; a story of being left for dead in the long stupor of a brain hurt; of a hairbreadth escape from living burial; of weeks in hospital unidentified, all sense of identity lost; and of a daring feat of surgery, with swift mental, not so swift bodily, recovery.
"Help me, Ruth," she implored pitifully. "No other person in the world can help me but you!" "Do you see that," asked Ruth quietly of John Mark, "and still it doesn't move you?" "Not a hairbreadth, my dear." "But isn't it absurd? Suppose I have my freedom, and I tell the police that in this house a girl against her will " "Tush, my dear! You really do not know me at all.
There was no sign of masculine attire left carelessly about not a chair or table was a hairbreadth out of its appointed place. Her hand, resting lightly on the door-handle, gripped it with a sudden tensity. The next moment she had crossed the room and torn open the doors of the great armoire where Hugh kept his clothes. This, too, was empty shelves and hanger alike.
Legends of hairbreadth escapes were legion. They were well told by fluent liars, by such raconteurs as talk of prodigious things in fishing, and catch nothing but colds. The narrow escapes were yet to come. Our wounded in the hospital were doing well; some of them had already been discharged.
I had broken off a handful of coral pink Laurettes and was arranging them idly when he spread his wings in a sudden upward flight a tiny swift flight which ended among the roses on my hat the very hat on my head. Did I make myself still then? Did I stir by a single hairbreadth? Who does not know? I scarcely let myself breathe. I could not believe that such a thing of pure joy could be true.
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