hair's-breath
Example Sentences
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It was a most undignified position; but he triumphed over it, as, with one supple undulation, he shot himself on to the floor, saving his forehead from the window by a hair's-breath.
From Audrey Craven by Sinclair, May
His satisfaction was hardly diminished by a hair's-breath when Cedric suggested that they might go round by Rotherwood on their way home and give David a verbal invitation.
From Herb of Grace by Carey, Rosa Nouchette
