hair-line

This dark hair-line was the trail — the main trail — that led south five hundred miles to the Chilcoot Pass, Dyea, and salt water; and that led north seventy miles to Dawson, and still on to the north a thousand miles to Nulato, and finally to St. Michael on Bering Sea, a thousand miles and half a thousand more.

To Build a Fire 2010

He remembered back into the fight to the moment when he had Sandel swaying and tottering on the hair-line balance of defeat.

A PIECE OF STEAK 2010

North and south, as far as his eye could see, it was unbroken white, save for a dark hair-line that curved and twisted from around the spruce - covered island to the south, and that curved and twisted away into the north, where it disappeared behind another spruce-covered island.

To Build A Fire 2010

But all this — the mysterious, far-reaching hair-line trail, the absence of sun from the sky, the tremendous cold, and the strangeness and weirdness of it all — made no impression on the man.

To Build a Fire 2010

North and south, as far as his eye could see, it was unbroken white, save for a dark hair-line that curved and twisted from around the spruce - covered island to the south, and that curved and twisted away into the north, where it disappeared behind another spruce-covered island.

To Build A Fire 2010

This dark hair-line was the trail -- the main trail -- that led south five hundred miles to the Chilcoot Pass, Dyea, and salt water; and that led north seventy miles to Dawson, and still on to the north a thousand miles to Nulato, and finally to St. Michael on Bering Sea, a thousand miles and half a thousand more.

To Build A Fire 2010

He remembered back into the fight to the moment when he had Sandel swaying and tottering on the hair-line balance of defeat.

A PIECE OF STEAK 2010

This dark hair-line was the trail -- the main trail -- that led south five hundred miles to the Chilcoot Pass, Dyea, and salt water; and that led north seventy miles to Dawson, and still on to the north a thousand miles to Nulato, and finally to St. Michael on Bering Sea, a thousand miles and half a thousand more.

To Build A Fire 2010

North and south, as far as his eye could see, it was unbroken white, save for a dark hair-line that curved and twisted from around the spruce-covered island to the south, and that curved and twisted away into the north, where it disappeared behind another spruce-covered island.

To Build a Fire 2010

I needed a moment for his short-sleeved black shirt and wrinkled forehead exaggerating a receding hair-line to register.

Silver Zombie Carole Nelson Douglas 2010