Usar "hairbreadth" en una oración
hairbreadth oraciones de ejemplo
hairbreadth
1. He stopped, his lips a hairbreadth from mine
2. I remembered how he had been the night before, at the limit of his control, rough and demanding and just a hairbreadth from stepping over the edge and taking me with him, down into his darkness…
3. Far be it from the messenger to deviate a hairbreadth from God’s Statute in his actions or sayings
4. handbreadth but a hairbreadth; death was
5. "Nonsense! If I could I'd stop your doing anything that may alter you a hairbreadth from what you are at this moment
6. "You can't call it exactly a hairbreadth escape," he said moodily
7. "The expedition with which parties were formed for service; the rapidity of the frigate's movements, night and day; the hasty sleep, snatched at all hours; the waking up at the report of the guns, which seemed the only key-note to the hearts of those on board; the beautiful precision of our fire, obtained by constant practice; the coolness and courage of our captain inoculating the whole of the ship's company; the suddenness of our attacks, the gathering after the combat, the killed lamented, the wounded almost envied; the powder so burnt into our faces that years could not remove it; the proved character of every man and officer on board; the implicit trust and the adoration we felt for our commander; the ludicrous situations which would occur even in the extremest danger and create mirth when death was staring you in the face; the hairbreadth escapes, and the indifference to life shown by all—when memory sweeps along those years of excitement even now, my pulse beats more quickly with the reminiscence
8. The Guardian says:—"This stirring tale, which is played in the days of Queen Elizabeth, and tells of the wonderful adventures of a sturdy prentice-lad who contrived to crowd into a few years as much danger and fighting and hairbreadth escapes as would have lasted an army of ordinary folk for their whole lives
9. Among many exciting episodes may be mentioned shooting "rattlers" in the Sierras, encounters with narwhals and bears in the Arctic regions, a hairbreadth escape on the terrible ice-river of Spitzbergen, and adventures among the savages of Patagonia
10. The tale is full of exciting incidents and hairbreadth escapes so dear to the heart of all boys; and it has the advantage of being cleverly illustrated by Alfred Pearse
11. His exploits and hairbreadth escapes were legion, and it is practically a series of these that are narrated in the present volume, with all the rapidity and spirit that the boyish temper loves