Emily lifted miserable eyes and in her extremity fell back on a phrase of her father's.
The window, which gave on to the street, was open; through that window Sarah, in her extremity, had called the child who ran down to Mrs.
Mynors had evidently walked across to her from the refreshment tent, which was at the opposite extremity of the field.
Old Tellwright could be seen at the extremity of the long narrow garden—a garden which consisted chiefly of a grass-plot sown with clothes-props and a narrow bordering of flower beds without flowers.
She went on to Edward Street, a short steep thoroughfare at the eastern extremity of the town, leading into a rough road across unoccupied land dotted with the mouths of abandoned pits: this road climbed up to Toft End, a mean annexe of the town about half a mile east of Bleakridge.
He then placed me at one extremity of the long bench, and having duly and carefully brought me my work-basket, silk, scissors, all my implements, he fixed himself quite at the other end.
In the very extremity of want, I had recourse again, and yet again, to the little packet in the case—the five letters.
Any solemn rite, any spectacle of sincere worship, any opening for appeal to God was as welcome to me then as bread to one in extremity of want.
" 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.
That will be a prompt way of finishing all, when I am pushed to extremity!
One single clump of green trees raised their heads at the extremity of Serpentine Peninsula.
Large trees were struck by the electric fluid and shattered, and among others one of those gigantic nettle-trees which had shaded the poultry-yard at the southern extremity of the lake.
And indeed, the next day the extremity of the peninsula was reached, and the whole length of the forest had been traversed; but there was nothing to indicate the retreat in which the convicts had taken refuge, nor that, no less secret, which sheltered the mysterious unknown.
The time was, therefore, very favorable for the projected expedition, which, if it did not accomplish its principal object, would at any rate be fruitful in discoveries, especially of natural productions, since Harding proposed to explore those dense forests of the Far West, which stretched to the extremity of the Serpentine Peninsula.
He took breath, then, hoisting himself up, he managed to reach the extremity of the cutwater.
The engineer corked them by means of a stopper through which passed a glass tube, bored at its lower extremity, and intended to be plunged into the acid by means of a clay stopper secured by a rag.
At the same time Top began to run round the mouth of the well, which opened at the extremity of the interior passage.
When the high temperature of the oven had reduced it to a liquid, or rather a pasty state, Cyrus Harding collected with the tube a quantity of the paste: he turned it about on a metal plate, previously arranged, so as to give it a form suitable for blowing, then he passed the tube to Herbert, telling him to blow at the other extremity.
At sunrise all were on the shore at the extremity of the promontory, and their gaze was directed towards the horizon, of which two-thirds of the circumference were visible.
But the engineer would take nothing for granted until he had explored the coast to the very extremity of the Serpentine Peninsula.