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More "Close shave" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the negative. "Mighty close shave for Burke here, though" he added, "lucky I heard Gully cocking that blasted Luger of his." He uttered a suppressed chuckle, "Burke's always one to go cautioning others, and then lose his temper ...
— The Luck of the Mounted - A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police • Ralph S. Kendall
... close shave, Jack," the coast-guardsman who was at the helm said. "It was lucky I made you out with my glass when I did. It was touch and go; I saw you trying to get them on their backs. If they had kept quiet you would have managed it; but drowning people ...
— A Chapter of Adventures • G. A. Henty
... "It was a close shave as it was, Surajah. One second later, and you and I should both have been strangled. I had my hand on my pistol, and felt so sure that an attack was intended that, the moment something passed before my face, ...
— The Tiger of Mysore - A Story of the War with Tippoo Saib • G. A. Henty
... a close shave indeed, Mallett," one of the other captains said, as a party of them sat round a fire. "We won ...
— The Queen's Cup • G. A. Henty
... roared; "jump." The lane was steep and greasy, the gate was four feet and a half. Mike rode at it. The animal dropped his hind-legs, Mike heard the gate rattle, and a little ejaculatory cry come from those he left behind. It was a close shave. Turning in his saddle he saw the immense crowd pressing about the gate, which could not be opened, and he knew very well that he would have the hounds to himself for many ...
— Mike Fletcher - A Novel • George (George Augustus) Moore
... blame. How'd we know it want the police? We had a mighty close shave over that state ...
— The City of Fire • Grace Livingston Hill
... he whipped out his knife, cut the string and released me from what in a couple of seconds more would have been instant death, as I would have been pulled from my seat and crushed to a jelly between the wheels. This was my first close shave from death. I had no horseshoe or four-leaf clover with me, and I can account for my escape in no other way than that it was my lucky star that has accompanied me throughout the long months of times that try men's souls and that has never ...
— S.O.S. Stand to! • Reginald Grant
... on his knees, but by a quick powerful upthrust of his legs he regained his upright position. However, it had been a close shave for Weir, for he well knew that his opponent would use any tactics, fair or foul, to kill him if he once lay ...
— In the Shadow of the Hills • George C. Shedd
... trap-door was swung back, and Clifford Owen's face appeared at the opening. "I say," he said, "that was a close shave, wasn't it? If our friend Fairfax had not been the prince of good fellows where ...
— Peggy Owen and Liberty • Lucy Foster Madison
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