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Definition of Hairsbreadths
1. hairsbreadth [n] - See also: hairsbreadth
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hairsbreadths
Literary usage of Hairsbreadths
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notes on Some of the Principal Pictures Exhibited in the Rooms of the Royal by John Ruskin (1855)
"... it can be felt: the difference between him and all other painters of similar
subjects is quite infinite—and yet it depends literally on hairsbreadths, ..."
2. Forty Years' Familiar Letters of James W. Alexander, D. D.: Constituting by James Waddel Alexander (1860)
"Their quarrels about hairsbreadths (for they are all agreed about doctrine and
order) are inexplicable. In Glasgow there are more hideous, half-naked people ..."
3. Songs of the Day and Night: Or, Three Centuries of Original Hymns for Public by Alexander Balloch Grosart (1890)
"Sleepless from night to morn, I know not what to do ; By hairsbreadths rack'd
and torn, In vain I to Thee sue ; 0 Christ ! Thou knowest me all ; Seest me as ..."
4. Forty Years' Familiar Letters of James W. Alexander, D. D., Constituting by James Waddel Alexander (1860)
"Their quarrels about hairsbreadths (for they are all agreed about doctrine and
order) aro inexplicable. Dr. Robinson left me on the 4th, ..."
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