narrow squeak

But remember, sweet little one, you've had a narrow squeak of losing a very long life.

Crawley having thus alluded to the narrow squeak had asked his visitor to enter the house and see his wife.

"It was a narrow squeak—a very narrow squeak," Mr. Crawley had said when his friend congratulated him on his escape.

But we're going to have a narrow squeak for it next spring and summer, and we must get more food out of the land.'

There was a young chap, Winstay—rather a pal of mine—he had a narrow squeak, knocked over by a shot in his breast.