10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HAIR'S-BREADTH»
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hair's-breadth in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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1
Freedom by a Hair's
Breadth: Tsimihety in Madagascar
This book describes how an obscure people, the Tsimihety, secured and maintained their freedom from political and cultural domination that began, from within Madagascar, in 1820 and continued through a colonial period to the present day.
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The Oxford Dictionary of American Usage and Style
See better (a). hair's breadth; hair's-breadth; hairbreadth; hairsbreadth. Although
most American dictionaries list hairbreadth first as both noun and adjective, that
is one of the less common forms. The standard terms today are hair's breadth as
...
3
By a Hair's
Breadth, and Other Stories, by Various Writers
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
4
Garner's Modern American Usage
See hair's breadth. ✳hairlip. See harelip. hair-raising, a near-equivalent of the
Latin horribilis (= making to stand on end), is sometimes misrendered ✳hair-
razing, as in the headline for an item that began: “Jimmy Johnson's hair was
messed up ...
5
The Book of Equanimity: Illuminating Classic Zen Koans
CASE. 17. Hogen's. Hair's-Breadth. PREFACE TO THE ASSEMBLY Paired
geese beating the ground with their wing tips fly up high. A pair of wood ducks
stands alone at the edge of a pond. Leaving aside the matter of arrow points
meeting ...
6
Tinsley's magazine, conducted by E. Yates
Wounds escape being mortal, vital arteries and organs are passed by the deadly
lead, quite actually and not figuratively at all, by a hair's breadth. It were endless
to point to instances of ' most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood ...
Edmund Hodgson Yates, 1872
7
The Essential René Guénon: Metaphysics, Tradition, and the ...
The line he must walk is a hair's breadth. The wise through excess of wisdom is
made a fool.”15 It is a stunning thought that fits well with the themes of Guénon's
work. The miracle of the human being would be an “impossibility” without the ...
René Guénon, John Herlihy, 2009
... not differ from "Mr. Calvin" by "an hair's breadth." Cf. The Arminian Magazine (
1780), 441-44, for a further incident in the relations between Newton and Wesley.
i. Cf. Journal, III, 310; VII, 389; Letters, II, no; IV, 197; Works, VI, 199; VIII, 144-46, ...
John Wesley, A. C. Outler, 1964
9
God Is Not Fair: Making Sense Out of Suffering
For a day? For a week? For a month? For a decade? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you are not unique. The book you now hold in your hands will welcome you into the fellowship of those who have battled and overcome grief.
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Lillie Devereux Blake: Retracing a Life Erased
2, Rgumng rbe Self . . . the whole universe . . . make[s] common cause against
the woman who swerves one hair's breadth out of the beaten track. — Nathaniel
Hawthorne, The Blithedale Romance I When, in 1854, Lillie Devereux's high
spirits ...
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Can Hillary Clinton lead the Keystone army
... an important issue for the party's voters, but that it remains one of many issues where Clinton's foes seek to exploit “hair's-breadth differences, ... «Politico, Jul 15»
