Extremities

Examples

• He described the experience in the following words:-- A thrilling, extending from the chest to the extremities, was almost immediately p roduced. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• The extremities, however, are still absent in these embryos. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• When the two champions stood opposed to each other at the two extremities of the lists, the public expectation was strained to the highest pitch. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Don't trouble about the volcano, Justinian; I've no doubt Hephaistos will warn us again before proceeding to extremities. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Fortune had given him a powerful frame, which he trained to support the extremities of exertion. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Nankeen trousers, displaying more white fancy-work over the ankles, and purple morocco slippers, adorned his lower extremities. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Is it wise to proceed to these extremities, before you have really exhausted all safer and simpler means of attaining your object? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• I think the extremities require to be at peace before the stomach will conduct itself with vigour. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Why did you drive me to such extremities? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Suddenly it stood still to an inexpressible feeling that thrilled it through, and passed at once to my head and extremities. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• I trebled the cable to make it stronger, and for the same reason I twisted three of the iron bars together, bending the extremities into a hook. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• I could hardly tell how men and women in extremities of destitution proceeded. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.

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