|
|
|
More "Close call" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "Close call, Frank," said the Big Business Man, shaking his head. "You were the one said we must keep together." The Doctor was too much ...
— The Girl in the Golden Atom • Raymond King Cummings
... Wesley was born, was both a house and a school. Probably the mother centered her life on John and Charles because they responded to her love in a way the others did not. In the year Seventeen Hundred Nine, the parsonage burned, with a very close call for little John, who was asleep in one of the upper chambers. The home being destroyed, the family was farmed out among the neighbors until the house could be rebuilt. John was sent to the home of a neighboring clergyman, ten miles away. After a week we find him writing to his ...
— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 9 - Subtitle: Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers • Elbert Hubbard
... later when the crisis had passed the doctors said that as nearly as they could figure out a case so unusual, Mr. Bass had had a very close call from being just naturally scrambled to death. I spoke at length of my former fellow townsman's powers, dwelling heavily upon the fact that, despite all, he never thickened up at the waistline. Throughout ...
— One Third Off • Irvin S. Cobb
... "That was a close call, Guy, that shot from the darkness. It must have come from the opposite side of the street, of course, from before your own lodgings. The bullet glanced upward in its ...
— The Crevice • William John Burns and Isabel Ostrander
... close call," said John. "We heard the first shots an hour ago, and we turned to take this direction. Then we heard nothing for a long time, and as we were coming over the hill beyond the firing commenced but we could see nothing, so we hurried forward and soon saw the smoke, and then the savages coming ...
— The Wonder Island Boys: Adventures on Strange Islands • Roger Thompson Finlay
... a close call you boys had," the lieutenant was saying. "I'm not sure but our neutrality was mighty near a breaking point. ...
— The Broncho Rider Boys with Funston at Vera Cruz - Or, Upholding the Honor of the Stars and Stripes • Frank Fowler
... Phil with a grin. "It was a close call, though. I hope no one in the car is hurt. You had better go in and find out. I am afraid our ...
— The Circus Boys on the Plains • Edgar B. P. Darlington
... nothing unusual transpiring, though our transport, which also contained the First U.S. Cavalry, had a seemingly close call from being sent to the bottom of the sea, or else being taken in as a prisoner, which the enemy could have done ...
— The Colored Regulars in the United States Army • T. G. Steward
... My, that was a close call! I mustn't lose track of him again. We'll be there with the goods yet, if we stick ...
— Our Pilots in the Air • Captain William B. Perry
... And Natalie had left what they call a disposition behind her. Everything was all straight, but Garth clinched the matter by calling Mabyn to testify. He was carried in on a stretcher. And blamed if he didn't tell the truth! He'd had a close call, you see, and had what Garth called a change of heart. It was Rina did it; day and ...
— Two on the Trail - A Story of the Far Northwest • Hulbert Footner
Copyright © 2024 Free Translator.org
|
|
|
