hairbreadths

The front did not change its outline on the map, except by hairbreadths, for months at a stretch, yet at many points of the line there were desperate battles, a bayonet charge now and then, and hours of frightful slaughter, when men saw red and killed with joy.

The Soul of the War Philip Gibbs 1919

Only a few hairbreadths make the difference between this face and faces I have seen many times before I knew you; yet what a difference -- the difference between everything and nothing at all.

The Return of the Native 1878

It is a science of hairbreadths and fractions of a second.

A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition 1874

And so the thorn beats in the race, and grows inches whilst the other grows hairbreadths.

Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke Alexander Maclaren 1868

Nobody knew as he did how each morsel of leather would behave itself under the needle, or could come within two hairbreadths of him in accuracy across the kneepan.

Ralph the Heir Anthony Trollope 1848

Split it as you like into hairbreadths and atoms, it is still fundamentally and essentially unaltered.

The Disowned — Volume 05 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

Split it as you like into hairbreadths and atoms, it is still fundamentally and essentially unaltered.

The Disowned — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

It was a strange way of killing: not by inches, but by fractions of hairbreadths, to beguile me with the spectre of a hope through eighteen years! '

Wuthering Heights Emily Bront�� 1833

The hectic visual motions, quick pans, and hairbreadths cuts between acts would be copied by later television shows like

PopMatters Michael Buening 2010

The hectic visual motions, quick pans, and hairbreadths cuts between acts would be copied by later television shows like

PopMatters Michael Buening 2010