Hairbreadth [noun]

Many hairbreadth escapes fell to his lot, and at last he quitted the sea, as he states "to the no small joy of my parents."

Many stories are told about the hairbreadth escapes of Marius at this time.

The "poor fellow" in detail related his hairbreadth escapes from battle, hunger, exposure, &c.

The din and the dust, the hairbreadth escapes made the discomfort of the ride for the two women indescribable.

Tough are the yarns of wondrous hunts and Indian perils, of hairbreadth 'scapes and curious "fixes."

One poor soldier had his leg completely severed from his body, while the escapes of his nonchalant bed-fellows were hairbreadth.

To-night, Janey deviated by a hairbreadth from her usual routine.

"You can't call it exactly a hairbreadth escape," he said moodily.

It was on this occasion that Athanasius was lost sight of for six years, making hairbreadth escapes during all that period.

Life to him was a story of hairbreadth escapes—of a quest beset with a thousand perils.