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Meanings of hairbreadth escapes in английском

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Usage of hairbreadth escapes in английском
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This surely was a day destined to be signalized by hairbreadth escapes.
Edgar Huntly; or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker
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All Melton was talking about your reckless riding, and your hairbreadth escapes.
A Prince of Sinners
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His feet suffered manifold hairbreadth escapes from the sharp blade.
Burned Bridges
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They did, and all sorts of hairbreadth escapes as well.
Grace Harlowe's Fourth Year at Overton College
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Do you know that was one of the most hairbreadth escapes of my life?
The Odds / And Other Stories
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This continued with many hairbreadth escapes, until he was forced to move several states away.
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States...
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Any one looking for stirring adventures, hairbreadth escapes from wild animals and men, will be disappointed.
Spinifex and Sand / A Narrative of Five Years' Pioneering and Ex...
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C. Grimes' hairbreadth escapes from Bedouins, but I think I could read them now without a tremor.
The Entire Project Gutenberg Works of Mark Twain
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Never in the pages of Lever has there been such a series of hairbreadth escapes and dare-devil exploits.
Through the Magic Door
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I heard dialects peculiar to every part of England, and fragmentary accounts of hairbreadth escapes and desperate fighting.
Kitchener's Mob: Adventures of an American in the British Army
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His skill was so great that though he had numerous hairbreadth escapes he seldom suffered much bodily harm.
The Mastery of the Air
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His rencounters with the Indians, and his hairbreadth escapes make no inconsiderable figure in the subsequent annals of Kentucky.
The First White Man of the West / Life and Exploits of Col. Dan'...
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Indeed, the existence of these two rivers seems to be a question of balance and coincidence and hairbreadth escapes.
Gala-Days
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I cannot describe the maze we got into and the hairbreadth escapes we have had to pass through to-day.
The Worst Journey in the World / Antarctic 1910-1913
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On the principle that adventures are to the adventurous, her life should have been a whirl of hairbreadth escapes.
Ridgway of Montana (Story of To-Day, in Which the Hero Is Also t...
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Other sovereigns in similar plight have hidden themselves, travestied themselves, had hairbreadth escapes, or have not escaped at all.
What I Remember, Volume 2
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