Extracting

Examples

• We have actually pretended that the work of extracting a living from nature could be done most successfully by short-sighted money-makers encouraged by their money-spending wives. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Mr. Godfrey felt Christian fingers unfastening his bandage, and extracting his gag. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• They are very liable to decay early, are very large, and should never be allowed to require extracting. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• I have heard that chymists can by their art decompose stone and wood, extracting a considerable quantity of water from the one and air from the other. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The ball had entered my shoulder, and I knew not whether it had remained there or passed through; at any rate I had no means of extracting it. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Steam and the distillation processes have been applied with great success to the making of glycerine from fat and from soap underlye and in extracting fat from various waste products. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.

Inputed by Giles