Extremity
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136 examples of Extremity in a sentence
Oh! had I even now had the grace of repentance, I had still leisure to have looked back upon my follies, and have made some reparation; but the satisfaction I was to make for the public mischiefs I had done was yet left behind; and I could not forbear going abroad again, as I called it now, than any more I could when my
extremity
really drove me out for bread.
The witnesses were the two wenches, a couple of hard-mouthed jades indeed, for though the thing was truth in the main, yet they aggravated it to the utmost extremity, and swore I had the goods wholly in my possession, that I had hid them among my clothes, that I was going off with them, that I had one foot over the threshold when they discovered themselves, and then I put t' other over, so that I was quite out of the house in the street with the goods before they took hold of me, and then they seized me, and brought me back again, and they took the goods upon me.
"Know, friend Sancho," answered Don Quixote, "that the life of knights-errant is subject to a thousand dangers and reverses, and neither more nor less is it within immediate possibility for knights-errant to become kings and emperors, as experience has shown in the case of many different knights with whose histories I am thoroughly acquainted; and I could tell thee now, if the pain would let me, of some who simply by might of arm have risen to the high stations I have mentioned; and those same, both before and after, experienced divers misfortunes and miseries; for the valiant Amadis of Gaul found himself in the power of his mortal enemy Arcalaus the magician, who, it is positively asserted, holding him captive, gave him more than two hundred lashes with the reins of his horse while tied to one of the pillars of a court; and moreover there is a certain recondite author of no small authority who says that the Knight of Phoebus, being caught in a certain pitfall, which opened under his feet in a certain castle, on falling found himself bound hand and foot in a deep pit underground, where they administered to him one of those things they call clysters, of sand and snow-water, that well-nigh finished him; and if he had not been succoured in that sore
extremity
by a sage, a great friend of his, it would have gone very hard with the poor knight; so I may well suffer in company with such worthy folk, for greater were the indignities which they had to suffer than those which we suffer.
in the
extremity
of his desperation, 'ma'am!'Now, although Mr. Pickwick was not actuated by any definite object in putting out his head, it was instantaneously productive of a good effect.
'I have no objection, Sam, to your endeavouring to ascertain how Mrs. Bardell herself seems disposed towards me, and whether it is really probable that this vile and groundless action is to be carried to
extremity.
The first goblin was a most astonishing leaper, and none of the others could come near him; even in the
extremity
of his terror the sexton could not help observing, that while his friends were content to leap over the common-sized gravestones, the first one took the family vaults, iron railings and all, with as much ease as if they had been so many street-posts.
'Why, bless the gentleman's honest heart and soul!' said the Zephyr, turning round and affecting the
extremity
of surprise; 'the gentleman is awake.
'Do not judge me harshly; do not, when you hear that, driven to
extremity
by hopeless obstacles, I--''Now then,' said Mr. Tupman, reappearing at the door.
And wot other man can say the same, Sammy?''Vell, there's somethin' in that,' said Sam.'If your gov'nor had been a coachman,' reasoned Mr. Weller, 'do you s'pose as that 'ere jury 'ud ever ha' conwicted him, s'posin' it possible as the matter could ha' gone to that
extremity?
Then I could produce your confession at the last
extremity
to save young McCarthy.
Conversation however was not wanted, for Sir John was very chatty, and Lady Middleton had taken the wise precaution of bringing with her their eldest child, a fine little boy about six years old, by which means there was one subject always to be recurred to by the ladies in case of extremity, for they had to enquire his name and age, admire his beauty, and ask him questions which his mother answered for him, while he hung about her and held down his head, to the great surprise of her ladyship, who wondered at his being so shy before company, as he could make noise enough at home.
But for the drugs he would, in the
extremity
of his rage, have fallen upon Tarvin, who was saying, "I can prove it quite enough to satisfy Colonel Nolan."
He determined, therefore, to direct his course as clear from it as he could when, on the opposite side of the road, from behind a rock, he perceived the
extremity
of another musket.
While thinking and walking, Athos passed and repassed before the pipe of the stove, broken in halves, the other
extremity
passing into the chamber above; and every time he passed and repassed he heard a murmur of words, which at length fixed his attention.
This letter told Buckingham that the city was at an extremity; but instead of adding, "If your succor does not arrive within fifteen days, we will surrender," it added, quite simply, "If your succor comes not within fifteen days, we shall all be dead with hunger when it comes."
’I have an extraordinary means which I will not employ but in the last
extremity
to close your mouth, or at least to prevent anyone from believing a word you may utter.’
Athos walked in the direction indicated, and reached the suburb situated at the opposite
extremity
of the city from that by which he and his friends had entered it.
When lying on my back, I opened my eyes and saw a bright sparkling point of light at the
extremity
of the gigantic tube 3,000 feet long, now a vast telescope.
or was he determined to examine this passage to its farthest
extremity?
I then learnt that my providential fall had brought me exactly to the
extremity
of an almost perpendicular shaft; and as I had landed in the midst of an accompanying torrent of stones, the least of which would have been enough to crush me, the conclusion was that a loose portion of the rock had come down with me.
Thence my eye could sweep every part of the bay; within its
extremity
a little harbour was formed between the pyramidal cliffs, where the still waters slept untouched by the boisterous winds.
The geyser, a word meaning 'fury,' rises majestically from its
extremity.
Hans, steering with his usual skill, brought us to the other
extremity
of the islet.
The fellow looked at us in a helpless way, and he wrung his hands together like one who is in the last
extremity
of doubt and misery.
Now I found that a secure retreat was provided for me in my
extremity.
And yet, so strong is habit, that, even in this
extremity
of emotion he assumed the deferential air of the high-class valet, and his sentences formed themselves in the sonorous fashion which had struck my attention upon that first day when the curricle of my uncle had stopped outside my father's door.
They found themselves at the
extremity
of a sharp point on which the sea broke furiously.
"We are on an islet," said Pencroft, "and we have surveyed it from one
extremity
to the other."
Landing at the foot of a high wall of granite, he shook himself vigorously; and then, setting off running, soon disappeared behind a rocky point, which projected to nearly the height of the northern
extremity
of the islet.
At the northern
extremity
of the bay the outline of the shore was continued to a great distance in a wider curve.
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