every inch

I never saw him when we forded the river; when we planted the English flag in the first breach; when we crossed the ditch beyond; and, fighting every inch of our way, entered the town.

There was the one house in England of which I knew every inch, and Raffles only what I told him.

He was old now, but when he was young he must have been splendid; he had still a proud way of holding his head and arching his neck; in fact, he was a high-bred, fine-mannered, noble old horse, every inch of him.

And we had been compelled to row, in a dead calm, practically every inch of the way.

Every inch of her was charged with an energy that made itself felt the moment she entered a room.

Her mother hastened to explain, smiles breaking from every inch of her person.

Our Emperor joined the army to encourage it to defend every inch of Russian soil and not to retreat.

He crawled straight toward Grey Beaver, every inch of his progress becoming slower and more painful.

'With a hunger and thirst upon me, father, which have never been for a moment appeased; with an ardent impulse towards some region where rules, and figures, and definitions were not quite absolute; I have grown up, battling every inch of my way.'

And fait that same is no wonder at all at all (so be plased to stop curlin your nose), for every inch o' the six wakes that I've been a gintleman, and left aff wid the bogthrothing to take up wid the Barronissy, it's Pathrick that's been living like a houly imperor, and gitting the iddication and the graces.

And Ghak, too; the great, shaggy man had found a place in the hearts of us both, for he was indeed every inch a man and king.

The red men had not yet forced the outer palace wall, but they were fighting nobly against the best that Okar afforded--valiant warriors who contested every inch of the way.