And on you pelted with your plot to such conflicts and hair-breadth escapes as lay in your contrivance.

" As Stutely sat thus, there came a great house cat and rubbed against his knee, raising his robe a palm's-breadth high.

There is not a hair's-breadth space between any two of his words, nor is there a single expression either ill-chosen or out of its place.

Its form is orthobrachycephalic; breadth index, 80.2; height index, 70.6.

Wayne's own escape on this occasion was of the hair-breadth kind.

Some have all their defensive armour composed of many small plates of iron, a hand-breadth long and an inch broad, perforated with eight small holes, by which they are tied with small leather thongs to strong thongs of leather underneath, so that the plates overlap each other in regular series, and are firmly knit together.

The kingdom of heaven has not come a hair's-breadth nearer for my being a parson of the Church of England; neither are the people of England a shade the better that I am one of her land-owners.

The narrator of the skate story coolly replied, "Weel, sir, gin yer freend will tak' a few feet aff the length o' his tiger, we'll see what can be dune about the breadth o' the skate."

And thus I gather for my tears Sweet hope from faith in after years; And far across the glimmering spheres Height over height the heavens expand I see him in God's Eden land, With palms of vict'ry in his hand; O'er brows of solemn breadth profound, With fadeless wreaths of glory wound, He stands a seraph, robed and crowned.

"I guess the gods were offended at my presumption and determined by one hair's-breadth shift to destroy the balance of my whole structure.

The same barrel will play a fresh tune by a hair's-breadth shifting of a spring.

Inferior only to the Vatican, it equals in length, and in breadth surpasses, the cathedral of Florence and St. Paul's; in the interior elevation it yields to both; in exterior it exceeds both; in fretwork, carving, and statues, it goes beyond all churches in the world, St. Peter's itself not excepted.

The scope of his thought had a breadth uncommon in his or in any time.

The people of this age dwell in the north on the side of the west, in the inner parts or breadth-ways: they are all from the old inhabitants of Asia, who were in possession of the ancient Word, and thence derived their worship; consequently they were before the time of our Lord's coming into the world.

For now, of length and of breadth bereft, The ghost of a tooth-brush is all that's left.

Nor is their apparel more expensive; for, beyond the immediate vicinity of the town, and where all the plantations are situated, the children go about entirely naked, while the men wear nothing more than a small apron about a hand's-breadth wide, and fastened between the legs: the women are the only persons dressed with anything like propriety.

There is generally some dark spot in the history of such men as Smithsonmen who climb the giddiest heights of this world with that desperate rapidity which implies many a perilous leap from crag to crag, many a moraine skimmed over, and many an awful gulf spanned by a hair-breadth bridge.

They kneel before a small wooden gutter filled with water up to the brim, and provided with boards, sloping downwards, in front of the space assigned to each woman; the gutter being cut out at these places in a corresponding manner, so that a very slender stream of water flows evenly across its whole breadth downwards over the board.