hairbreadth escape
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With Scotland Yard sleuthing furiously in alternate chapters, John Creed evades the law through great physical discomfort, many a hairbreadth escape, but never for an instant ceases to be a perfect English gentleman.
From Time Magazine Archive
That signaled the city's hairbreadth escape from defaulting on its many loans, bonds, bills and other debts.
From Time Magazine Archive
They had reached Point Barrow the day of their last departure from Fairbanks, after a hairbreadth escape in the cloud-hung Endicott Mountains.
From Time Magazine Archive
A hairbreadth escape through the bustling back streets of Shanghai!
From Time Magazine Archive
Nevertheless the timid traveller who discovers he is "pursued by a Cougar" may manage to persuade himself that he has had a hairbreadth escape.
From Wild Animals at Home by Seton, Ernest Thompson
