While in pursuit of large and dangerous game, Mr. Selous encountered many hardships and had some hairbreadth escapes, the account of which he gives in the graphic and entertaining style which gained such popularity for his former work.
Genuine story of adventure told in straightforward fashion, full of dramatic incidents and hairbreadth escapes, and made especially interesting by the fact that its author was the pioneer of the expedition to Mashunaland.
His skill was so great that though he had numerous hairbreadth escapes he seldom suffered much bodily harm.
They were wrecked on a shore where Stanley, the great explorer, had years before had a hairbreadth escape from massacre at the hands of the wild savages.
Alec Mackay, now a young engineering student, was lost to all sense of time as he read of the hairbreadth escapes and adventures told by the African explorer, Stanley, in his book, How I found Livingstone.
The gleam of light, which for weeks was to me an object of such intense interest, proceeded from a mere hairbreadth cleft in the rock.
You made, whilst a boy, some hairbreadth escapes, but they are nothing to what it has escaped.
Many were the hairbreadth escapes he had; but his self-possession carried him through all.
Many were the hairbreadth escapes, however, which he, in conjunction with his crew, experienced.
Many a hairbreadth escape have I had from one of these breakneck vehicles.
He missed a horse by a hairbreadth a mile farther on, and felt very cross.
Romantic adventures, hairbreadth escapes, and astounding achievements keep things spinning at a lively rate and hold the reader's attention throughout the breezy narrative.
It is a good story, full ofhairbreadth escapes and perilous adventures.
The Story of a School Conspiracy, by Andrew Home, telling of a deep-laid plot and of hairbreadth escapes!
He had a practical knowledge of seamanship, and his stories of the sea, full of thrilling adventures and hairbreadth escapes, exactly hit the taste of his boy readers.
From this point her journey, in part across country hitherto untrodden by Europeans, was a long series of adventures and hairbreadth escapes, at one time from the dangers of land and water, at another from the cannibal Fang.
The hero of the tale fought under both Wallace and Bruce, and while the strictest historical accuracy has been maintained with respect to public events, the work is full of "hairbreadth 'scapes" and wild adventure.
For more than a mile we drove along the edge of a precipice, and so near, that it seemed to me, should the horses deviate a hairbreadth from their usual track, we must be dashed into eternity.
The hairbreadth escapes one has--the sense that it is one's own cleverness that carries one through--the delight of escaping from the destruction that seemed down upon you!
The lad's journey across France, and his hairbreadth escapes, make up as good a narrative of the kind as we have ever read.
Then suddenly she remembered stories of hairbreadth escapes from fires, recounted to her by Mr. Standish, effected by the aid of a ladder made of sheets and blankets knotted together.
How apparent disaster is bravely met and overcome by Thad and his friends, forms the main theme of the story, which abounds in plenty of humor, and hairbreadth escapes.
Their hairbreadth escapes from the treacherous quicksands and dangerous waterspouts, and their rescue from the wicked wreckers are fully told.
Each man kept to himself, aware that a hairbreadth trespass against his neighbor would mean quick challenge to the death.
Billy was piloting no less a personage than "Daring Dan" Macauley, and Henri had behind him Marcus Jones Canby, also a hairbreadth member of the famous Seventh Corps, when they struck the snag that tumbled them within the Turkish lines.
The pages bristle with hairbreadthescapes and gallantry, and the historical side of the tale is worked out with much accuracy and detail.
Few stories come within hailing distance of Stimson's Reef in startling incidents andhairbreadth 'scapes.
The lad's journey across France with his faithful attendant Malcolm, and his hairbreadth escapes from the machinations of his father's enemies, make up as good a narrative of the kind as we have ever read.
He has manyhairbreadth escapes, is several times wounded and twice taken prisoner; but his courage and readiness bring him safely through all difficulties.
Defn: Having the breadth of a hair; very narrow; as, a hairbreadth escape.
Every one could sling stones at an hairbreadth and not miss.
Of hairbreadth scapes in the imminent, deadly breach.
Some of the party brought back big bearskins as trophies of their hairbreadth escapes.
Then Miriam and Moses and Aaron led these million freed slaves in a grand victory chorus of song about theirhairbreadth escape.
George had several hairbreadth escapes, once from drowning in an icy river, and once from being shot by a treacherous Indian guide.
In March, 1806, Lewis and Clark started back on their journey of more than four thousand miles, reaching St. Louis in six months, after many more thrilling adventures and hairbreadth escapes.
The red men afterward killed the brother, but Daniel, after hairbreadth escapes, reached North Carolina, safe and sound, but poorer than when he went away.
Not only did Livingstone have numerous hairbreadth escapes from lions, elephants, and other wild beasts, but he was many times stricken with the terrible African fever.
All lights are out at eight o'clock, so we lie in our blankets and tell each other lies about the number of Germans we have shot and the hairbreadth escapes we have had.
Hairbreadth escapes are related in hundreds of letters, and they have a dramatic quality that makes the ineffectual fires of imaginative fiction burn very low.
There were, in truth, many hairbreadth and some almost miraculous escapes, for the ground was rocky and full of badger-holes.
There have been so many strange incidents and hairbreadth escapes during the flood that we won't likely hear about them all for many a day to come.
He then went on to tell me all his adventures and hairbreadth escapes, and it really seemed as if over and over again he had been saved almost by a miracle.
With the trifling exception of these three now enumerated, I am not aware that you can extract any Great Moral Lesson whatsoever from the hairbreadth escapes of Kea and her associates.
