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” In his extremity, he chose the
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extremity of the monastery overlooking a deep ravine
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“You, O king – because you have grown great and become strong, and your grandeur has increased, reaching to the heavens, and your kingdom has expanded to the extremity of the earth – you yourself are the tree
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He entertained no doubt but that they were the extremity of those which had been described by Marco Polo, and that they were not very distant from the Ganges, or from the countries which had been conquered by Alexander
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The underlying message of this anomaly is that an extremity can be the causation of the other
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He again walked the slippery path of circumstance as well as conscience while the raft glided along at the extremity of the rope, pulled only lightly by the ever lessening current, as those exhilarating thoughts tempted the very depths of his being
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15 But now, because it is not so, he has visited in his anger; yet he knows it not in great extremity,
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Jews wrote to you in the extremity of trouble that came on us in those years, from the time that Jason and his company revolted from
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And in those days the sun shall be seen and he shall journey in the evening on the extremity of the great chariot in the west
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73 And Esau listened to the voice of Jacob, and Esau returned with the four hundred men that were with him on their road to Seir, and Jacob and all belonging to him went that day as far as the extremity of the land of Canaan in its borders, and he remained there some time
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When the ball reached the upper extremity it would be one o’clock
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73 And Esau listened to the voice of Jacob and Esau returned with the four hundred men that were with him on their road to Seir and Jacob and all belonging to him went that day as far as the extremity of the land of Canaan in its borders and he remained there some time
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7 What time as Demetrius reigned in the hundred threescore and ninth year we the Jews wrote to you in the extremity of trouble that came on us in those years from the time that Jason and his company revolted from the holy land and kingdom 8 And burned the porch and shed innocent blood; then we prayed to the Lord and were heard; we offered also sacrifices and fine flour and lighted the lamps and set out the loaves
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As he gazed into the extremity of his view of the path, a small silhouette of a bird winged its solitary way in from the western sky
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The inexorable movement of these waters into an even narrower southern extremity rapidly inundated the small amount of tidal lands along its mountain-lined shores
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As he gazed into the extremity of his view of the path, a small silhouette of a bird winged its
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southern extremity rapidly inundated the small amount of tidal lands along its mountain-lined
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5 Through envy Paul too showed by example the prize that is given to patience: 6 seven times was he cast into chains; he was banished; he was stoned; having become a herald both in the East and in the West he obtained the noble renown due to his faith; 7 and having preached righteousness to the whole world and having come to the extremity of the West and having borne witness before rulers he departed at length out of the world and went to the holy place having become the greatest example of patience
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imperfections on either extremity of the marks, I imagined that
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In the extremity of fear and excitement the mind can play tricks?’ He looked up as though seeking confirmation of his hypothesis in Sanjay’s face
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So, you see, when there is a real extremity help is at hand; but I think
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He had scarcely used the latter two in the past two weeks, on account of the extremity of his situation, and even receiving images from the television was becoming a thing of past activities
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They reached the northern extremity of the plateau, and stood gazing up the steep pitch of the cliffs
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Promontories ran out into the desert, forming barren valleys, all but one of which were closed on the northern extremity by rugged cliffs
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And then, as the horde writhed and coiled upon itself, Amalric's lancers, having cut through a cordon of horsemen encountered in the outer valley, swept around the extremity of the western ridge and smote the host in a steel-tipped wedge, splitting it asunder
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In his extremity he had picked up a sword dropped by a dying sailor, and as the Zingaran rushed recklessly at him, he struck with the unfamiliar weapon
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In this extremity Ascalante's cynical philosophy did not desert him
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Now the barbaric suggestion about the king was more pronounced, as if in his extremity the outward aspects of civilization were stripped away, to reveal the primordial core
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It was long and narrow, a typical trading-ship of the southern coasts, high of poop and stern, with cabins at either extremity
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Toward the latter part of the period other Hyrkanian clans push westward, around the northern extremity of the inland sea, and clash with the eastern outposts of the Hyperboreans
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The Hyrkanians were not convinced; three more invasions burst upon the Zamorian borders, and the Lands of Shem, and were hurled back by the Aquilonians, though the Turanian armies grew larger as hordes of steel-clad riders rode out of the east, skirting the southern extremity of the inland sea
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Hosts of steel-clad riders galloped around the northern extremity of the inland sea, traversed the icy deserts, entered the steppes, driving the aborigines before them, and launched themselves against the western kingdoms
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They walked past the building used by the international staff, heading towards those used by Afghans and finally entering one extremity of a long building
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‘’It is near the eastern extremity of the town, just besides the road leading through town to the city of Farah, to the West
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Nancy then drew a bearing on the departure flashes and detonations from the enemy mortar firing at intervals from the eastern extremity of the town on the police station
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Getting up from her chair and going to her small kitchen corner, she took the time to prepare a solid breakfast, eating it at her small dining table set at one extremity of her lounge
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The airliner then started rolling away from the departure terminal, heading for an extremity of the main runway
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Geiger nodded his head, looking for a moment down the long line of wounded and sick waiting on stretchers along the tree line facing the southwest extremity of the grass strip
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Again, the anomaly can be explained by the extremity of the movement; a
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One extremity of the asteroid was actually one big hole with a diameter of at least one kilometer
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As the second cut tree was dropped into the huge box, a large rectangular bundle of wood beams came out through one of the doors at one extremity of the box, suspended under a telescopic arm
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The whole city was about twelve kilometers to the side, with the Palace City and Imperial City situated at the northern extremity of Chang’an, walled off from the rest of the city
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It fil ed the extremity of the cavern
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The severed extremity rolled across the
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massive extremity bounced across the stone floor as its
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Sorcery is defined by its intent, not by its extremity
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gustin was at the last extremity of starvation
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The upshot of your last letter is, I gather, that for some strange reason, some extremity of perverseness, you would have me walk in silk attire, and do it in halls made of marble
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_He_ was up there, he, the real master, sent for, no doubt, in her extremity by his once-upon-a-time wife to put order into the mess they were in
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And so at Binz, dragged out of my pleasant dream to night and loneliness, I could not move for a moment for sheer extremity of fright
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And when the glasses were brought there was another ceremony--a clinking of Herr Dremmel's glass with each glass in turn, his heels together as in the days of his soldiering, his body stiff and his face a miracle of solemnity; and before drinking he made a speech, the Asti held high in front of him, in which he thanked the ladies for their good wishes on behalf of his betrothed, Miss Ingeborg Bullivant, whose virtues he dwelt upon singly and at length in resounding periods, before proceeding to assure those present of his firm resolve to prove, by the devotion of the rest of his life, the extremity of his gratitude for the striking proof she had given before them all of her confidence in him; and every sentence seemed to set another and a heavier seal on her as a creature undoubtedly bound to marry him
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Ingeborg brought her a footstool; brought her a cushion; brought her, in extremity, a glass of water; began to sew at a torn duster; left off sewing at it; fluttered nervously among the pages of her grammar; pored in her dictionary; and always Frau Dremmel watched her
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Bullivant in return in which there was an extremity of absence of enthusiasm
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"There is much difference, however," said the Baroness, "between thinking one is in extremity and really being in it," and the patient was apt to be biassed on these occasions, she explained, and inclined rashly to jump to conclusions
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Then she had really got to being in extremity
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When one was in extremity Ilse did cry
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The streets along the extremity of the city were still well lit
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The southern extremity is well distant from the mainland but the northern tip reaches close to the New Territories coastline between the crowded towns of Tsuen Wan and Tun Mun
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As he felt himself, or rather this outer extremity of his, which had grown beyond any sensible proportions, go in to be massaged and then drawn in yet further, all he wanted was MORE of the same…
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Lord, set bounds to this sickness, and say, Hitherto it shall come, and no further: Let it not prevail to extremity, but in measure when it shooteth forth do thou debate, and stay thy rough wind in the day of thine east wind; and by this let iniquity be purged, and let this be all the fruit, even the taking away of sin
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lower extremity!” She gave out with a delicious giggle and leaned over to hug him,
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The sixth extremity of our hand is our forearm… which is right in front of our nose, and taken for granted, and not included
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The beggar, sitting cross-legged on the pavement, leaning on the wall of a luxury hotel or an exclusive restaurant was symbolic of this coexistence of opulence and abject poverty but gave hardly an idea of the scale or of the extremity
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“Like seeking food from the funeral pyre”—the last extremity is exhausted
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At the Lotus Tree of the Extremity
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"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
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[Aside] How say you by that? Still harping on my daughter: yet he knew me not at first; he said I was a fishmonger: he is far gone, far gone: and truly in my youth I suffered much extremity for love; very near this
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"You must," he said, throwing a satisfied glance all round him, even to the very extremity of the landscape, "hold the bottle perpendicularly on the table, and after the strings are cut, press up the cork with little thrusts, gently, gently, as indeed they do seltzer-water at restaurants
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In extremity, in the worst extremity, the majority of people, even of common people, will behave decently
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Besides, they had met in a naked extremity of hate, and it was a bond
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But---could she do it? Her impotence before him, before the strong demand of some unknown thing in him, was her extremity
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That will be a prompt way of finishing all, when I am pushed to extremity! But it's a deed to be reserved for a forlorn hope; I'd not take Linton by surprise with it
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Each of them equally appears a finger, whether seen in the middle or at the extremity, whether white or black, or thick or thin--it makes no difference; a finger is a finger all the same
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But is this equally true of the greatness and smallness of the fingers? Can sight adequately perceive them? and is no difference made by the circumstance that one of the fingers is in the middle and another at the extremity? And in like manner does the touch adequately perceive the qualities of thickness or thinness, of softness or hardness? And so of the other senses; do they give perfect intimations of such matters? Is not their mode of operation on this wise--the sense which is concerned with the quality of hardness is necessarily concerned also with the quality of softness, and only intimates to the soul that the same thing is felt to be both hard and soft?
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utmost extremity, left her, in point of penetration, nothing to fear or to
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A spectral-looking figure stalked from out of the darkness behind the scout, and seizing a blazing brand, held it toward the further extremity of their place of retreat
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The moon had risen, and its light was already glancing here and there on the waters above them; but the extremity of the rock where they stood still lay in shadow
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extremity; the secret entrance was open
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Within this fragile barrier he arranged the blankets abandoned by the foresters, darkening the inner extremity of the cavern, while its outer received a chastened light from the narrow ravine, through which one arm of the river rushed to form the junction with its sister branch a few rods below
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A second yell soon followed the first, when a rush of voices was heard pouring down the island, from its upper to its lower extremity, until they reached the naked rock above the caverns, where, after a shout of savage triumph, the air continued full of horrible cries and screams, such as man alone can utter, and he only when in a state of the fiercest barbarity
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In this extremity he heard a voice near him, shouting:
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In order to meet the payments then due; he had collected all his resources, and, fearing lest the report of his distress should get bruited abroad at Marseilles when he was known to be reduced to such an extremity, he went to the Beaucaire fair to sell his wife's and daughter's jewels and a portion of his plate
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Franz had remained for nearly a quarter of an hour perfectly hidden by the shadow of the vast column at whose base he had found a resting-place, and from whence his eyes followed the motions of Albert and his guides, who, holding torches in their hands, had emerged from a vomitarium at the opposite extremity of the Colosseum, and then again disappeared down the steps conducting to the seats reserved for the Vestal virgins, resembling, as they glided along, some restless shades following the flickering glare of so many ignes-fatui
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I should hate and despise myself as a coward did I desert the brave fellow in his present extremity
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During the existence of this scene, a man suddenly appeared at the furthest extremity of a platform of rock which formed the level of the village
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28 was situated at the extremity of the village; during the drive night had set in, and darkness gave the surroundings the artificial appearance of a scene on the stage
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But their way was becoming intricate, in those dark and gloomy passages, and the glimpses of the retiring warriors less distinct and frequent; and for a moment the trace was believed to be lost, when a white robe was seen fluttering in the further extremity of a passage that seemed to lead up the mountain
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"Ah," said he to Debray, who had thrown himself into an easy-chair at the farthest extremity of the salon, and who held a pencil in his right hand and an account book in his left, "what are you doing there? Are you making a sketch after Poussin?"
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So mean is extremity, that I sometimes sent him to Hyde Park corner to see what o'clock it was
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Under its influence (and perhaps to make up for the want of the softer feeling) I was seized with a violent indignation against the assailant from whom she had suffered so much; and I felt that on sufficient proof I could have revengefully pursued Orlick, or any one else, to the last extremity
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I had often seen one placed at the end of a road on a hillock, and in the light of the sun its black arms, bending in every direction, always reminded me of the claws of an immense beetle, and I assure you it was never without emotion that I gazed on it, for I could not help thinking how wonderful it was that these various signs should be made to cleave the air with such precision as to convey to the distance of three hundred leagues the ideas and wishes of a man sitting at a table at one end of the line to another man similarly placed at the opposite extremity, and all this effected by a simple act of volition on the part of the sender of the message
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Softened as my thoughts of all the rest of men were in that dire extremity; humbly beseeching pardon, as I did, of Heaven; melted at heart, as I was, by the thought that I had taken no farewell, and never now could take farewell of those who were dear to me, or could explain myself to them, or ask for their compassion on my miserable errors,—still, if I could have killed him, even in dying, I would have done it
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At the extremity of the building, on the contrary, he saw one of the three windows open
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" Valentine in the extremity of her terror joined her hands,—for she felt that the moment had arrived to ask for courage,—and began to pray, and while uttering little more than incoherent words, she forgot that her white shoulders had no other covering than her long hair, and that the pulsations of her heart could be seen through the lace of her nightdress
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It had even thrown its gleam, in the sufferer's hard extremity, across the verge of time
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This flitting cheerfulness was always at the farther extremity of some long vista through the forest