As it was, the very defenselessness of her situation gave her, in my opinion, the right to expect from me even the absurdest sacrifices to the narrowest conventionalities.
After I left school, I had the narrowest escape possible of intruding myself into another place of accommodation for distinguished people; in other words, I was very nearly being sent to college.
Twice, as he worked with the foot, Betty saw the black strike at him with its hoofs, and once a hoof missed his head by the narrowestof margins.
In one of the narrowestparts of the street a small newspaper shop made him stop.
The studio was situated in the narrowest part of the Rue du Four, at the far end of a decrepit, tumble-down building.
Bishop Ellicott speaks of it as "a text composed on the narrowest and most exclusive principles.
Their intelligence moves within the narrowest bounds, and one can no more (or no less) speak of their reason than of that of the more intelligent animals.
The sound is evidently narrowest about the entrance; from a point to the N.
I shall go and lose myself among the narrowest streets I can find, and not stop till we come to the very out-of-the-wayest house I can set eyes on.
In spite of the precautionary vigilance, Lord Gosford had the very narrowestpossible escape from death by assassination.
I know that of the wretched marriage, into which family pride, and the most sordid and narrowest of all ambition, forced your unhappy father when a mere boy, you were the sole and most unnatural issue.
The streets are the narrowest I have seen anywhere,--of no more width, indeed, than may suffice for the passage of a donkey with his panniers.
And none else can fill the narrowestand the smallest of man's needs.
The breadth is world-wide, and the whole breadth is condensed into, if I may so say, a shaft of light which may find its way through the narrowest chink of a single soul.
Better to walk on the narrowest path that leads to the City than to be chartered libertines, wandering anywhere at our own bitter wills, and finding 'no end, in devious mazes lost.
The dimension of the pit, which is never less than 32 inches in its narrowest diameter, amounts sometimes to several yards.
Curiosity, in the narrowest sense of the word, is carried to an extreme.
The Little Dalles, just below the American line, are about a hundred and forty feet across in their narrowest part, and the Great Dalles below Celilo Falls are slightly wider.
The Rock Slide is the narrowest point on the whole Columbia between Lake Windermere and the Pacific.
In the narrowest sense, it is a valid formal syllogism, with one premiss suppressed.
It is only among formal logicians of the straitest sect that the narrowest sense prevails.
She had cleared the narrowest part of the Irish Channel, had passed the coast of Wales, and crossed the entrance to the Bristol Channel; and the course she had been steering would have taken her well clear of the Land's End.
They usually slope across the bay to the south-west, and so pass over opposite to Tangier, which, it seems, is the narrowest space.
The strait-waistcoat is the narrowestzone of confinement, and the padded room but a little wider.
They are situated in an immense valley which extends from east to west for a distance of one hundred and twenty miles and a breadth, at the narrowest point of eighteen and at the broadest, of twenty-five miles.
Upon the northern slope begins another valley larger than the former, for it extends a distance of two hundred miles and a breadth of thirty miles at the broadest, and twenty miles at the narrowest part.
Note 10: Columbus describes the storms which prevailed during that entire month of December as the most formidable he had ever experienced; on the thirteenth his vessels had the narrowest possible escape from a waterspout.
At the foot of this mountain a vast plain[6] extends for a distance of sixty miles in length, and of an average of twelve leagues in breadth, varying from six in the narrowest part to twenty in the broadest.
Added to these possessions, she has, in Keere Street, the narrowest and steepest thoroughfare down which a king (George IV.
They were, one and all, from the broadest and best to the narrowest and least frequented, very dark.
Facing their room, and only divided by the very narrowestof passages, was the stranger's apartment.
A rickety iron bedstead covered with another patchwork quilt occupied the centre of the room, and there was a small chest of drawers in white wood placed near the fireplace--the smallest and narrowest in the world.
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