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Sentences starting with extreme

Extreme fatigue had quickly overpowered him. [10]
Extreme curiosity will excite some people as much as fear, or what resembles fear, acts on some other less impressible natures. [6]
Extreme fatigue had deadened consciousness, yet she fancied that at times she heard the sound of footsteps on the pavement outside, and the deep voices of men. [10]

Sentences ending with extreme

But withal there was a perceptible acumen about the man which was puzzling in the extreme. [9]
The first I thought was not serious enough, and the second was on the other extreme. [7]
But now I think I shall be spared this extreme. [10]
And I trust that reflection will convince you of the folly of pushing this matter to the extreme. [9]
With the exception of this sweet spot, I thought all the little towns and villages we passed wretched- looking in the extreme. [5]
And I was intensely surprised that her indignation should have got the better of her in this way, having always supposed her clear-headed in the extreme. [9]
Our thirst was extreme. [5]
The consternation is extreme. [4]

Short sentences using extreme

You have instanced extreme temperaments. [5]
But that's an extreme case. [5]

Sentences containing extreme two or more times

The conclusion that the horns have been acquired as ornaments is that which best agrees with the fact of their having been so immensely, yet not fixedly, developed,--as shewn by their extreme variability in the same species, and by their extreme diversity in closely-allied species. [1]
You will find, that, in passing from the extreme downward droop of the branches of the weeping-willow to the extreme upward inclination of those of the poplar, they sweep nearly half a circle. [6]
He would give opium, for instance, as boldly as the late Dr. Fisher of Beverly, but he followed the aphorism of the Father of Medicine, and kept extreme remedies for extreme cases. [3]
It may be necessary in some extreme cases; but as a rule, it is the last extreme of impertinence which one human being can offer to another. [6]
There was a good deal of subdued conversation while the pianist was in his extreme agony of execution, and a hush of extreme admiration--it was divine, divine, ravishing--when he had finished. [4]

More example sentences with the word extreme in them

Some of these young people were extreme in their views. [6]
Indeed, for many years, if there was any exception to the general toleration it was in the social ostracism of those who held and expressed extreme opinions in regard to immediate emancipation, and were stigmatized as abolitionists. [4]
With Irene marriage would be either supreme happiness or extreme wretchedness, no half-way acceptance of a conventional life. [4]
I said these words did him extreme credit, but that he must not throw away the imperishable distinction of being the first man to descend an Alp per parachute, simply to save the feelings of some envious underlings. [5]
Among nonagenarians, three whose names are well known to Bostonians, Lord Lyndhurst, Josiah Quincy, and Sidney Bartlett, were remarkable for retaining their faculties in their extreme age. [6]
The extreme friendliness which pervades many of them gives them a value which I rate very highly. [6]
The ground upon which he is attacked is thus stated in his own words:-- "People have often pretended to find in my writings the deplorable influence of an extreme Calvinism. [6]
She felt extreme weariness, yet somehow it did not seem to be of her body. [13]
And thus it was till his chief confessor, Master Leonard Derrer, the reverend Prior of the Dominicans, came in with the sacristan, to administer to him extreme unction. [10]
But extreme accuracy was not one of Emerson's special gifts, and vanity whispers to the misrepresented versifier that 'tis better to be quoted wrong Than to be quoted not at all. [6]
He declared there was not a veterinary surgeon in the whole town fit to hold a certificate, and his listeners nodded an extreme approval to this sentiment. [9]
Already an imprudent violation of his extreme sense of the dignity of majesty, or of the confidence which he bestowed upon her, might become fatal to it. [10]
It was fly-fishing under extreme difficulties. [4]
This unaccustomed sight turned all eyes toward the mountain; and as they looked, a little tongue of rich golden flame was seen waving and quivering in the heart of the midnight, away up on the extreme summit! [5]
Agatha's extreme beauty, too, struck the artist's daughter as something divine, and her eye often rested admiringly on her new friend's pure and regular features. [10]
We are bound to-day for the Punta della Campanella, the extreme point of the promontory, and ten miles away. [4]
To this sentiment Tobacco's Son grunted extreme approval. [9]
I will confess to you, dear Mary, that in spite of his extreme youth his departure for the army was a great grief to me. [2]
As an offset to this, the Jethro forces gain on the extreme right, where the Honorable Peleg Hartington is made President of the Senate, etc. [9]
So returning safe to the Fort, once more staied the pinnas her flight for England, which til his returne could not set saile, so extreme was the weather and so great the frost. [4]
What I mean to indicate by such an extreme instance as this is, that in our very license of individual freedom there is finally a correcting power. [4]
He carried it to an extreme impossible to the youth of any nation less "gifted. [4]
At the same time, he devoted himself zealously to the duties of his department, and did the country arduous service under circumstances of extreme difficulty. [7]
He says: "Being thus left to our fortunes, it fortuned that within ten days scarce ten amongst us could either go, or well stand, such extreme weakness and sicknes oppressed us. [4]
And all of this work from first to last had to be done with extreme caution. [9]
I believe, on the whole," he said, with what was an extreme complaisance for the first citizen, "that I have reason to congratulate myself upon Robert's choice. [9]
Yes, it was the Rigi-Kulm hotel--the one that occupies the extreme summit, and whose remote little sparkle of lights we had often seen glinting high aloft among the stars from our balcony away down yonder in Lucerne. [5]
And this is the reason why extreme, unrelieved realism is apt to give a false impression of persons and scenes. [4]
We were in the post of danger in the extreme rear, and tied securely to five guides apiece. [5]
Therefore in determining the position of man in the natural or genealogical system, the extreme development of his brain ought not to outweigh a multitude of resemblances in other less important or quite unimportant points. [1]
A miserable sentimentalist, the Notary was likely to be misunderstood for ever, and one or two indiscretions of his extreme youth had been a weapon against him through the long years of a blameless married life. [11]
A point on the mainland where they found a pond of fresh water they named "Poynt Ployer in honer of the most honorable house of Monsay, in Britaine, that in an extreme extremitie once relieved our Captain. [4]
The legislators in the front seats swung around, and people in the gallery craned forward to see a member standing at his seat in the extreme rear of the hall. [9]
This was at the extreme southern end, and here some thirty Gentile families lived in huts and shacks and log-cabins and several dilapidated cottages. [13]
Hannibal lies at the extreme south-eastern corner of Marion County, on the Mississippi River; our objective point was the hamlet of New London, ten miles away, in Ralls County. [5]
His dress was the extreme of the fantastic; as showy and foolish as the sort of thing an Indian medicine-man wears. [5]
Yet often, when the disease attacks her more sharply, she asks in mortal terror if everything is ready, for she is afraid to die without extreme unction. [10]
So it was that Sheila entered alone, and came to the bed and looked at the woman in the extreme depression of fever. [11]
But even in that extreme case we should be provided for. [8]
She would not taste it, and it became necessary to enforce that extreme penalty of the law which had been threatened, but never yet put in execution. [6]
Only, when they spoke of the necessity of flight, he burst out again, declaring that the time had not yet come for such extreme measures. [10]
Turning this extreme southwestern corner, we now take a long straight slant nearly N. W., without a break, for Ceylon. [5]
Yonder in the Soudan more problems than one would be solved, more lives than one be put to the extreme test. [11]
Or, as I sometimes think, would it not be a new and worse chagrin to become acquainted with the extreme deadness of our community to spiritual influences of the higher kind? [6]
The extreme of social refinement and a mild Bohemianism almost touch. [4]
Mammy Easter looked so dangerous that it was evident she was not to be passed without extreme bodily discomfort. [9]
She was a slim and long limbed Diana, with fine lines and a bosom of extreme youth, though she must have been twenty-one her last birthday. [11]
It was rather singular that she should have elected to be the apostle of this extreme doctrine, for she was herself far better equipped with brain than muscles. [6]
One instance will show the extreme slightness which characterizes many of the grounds of inculpation:-- The instructions say, "The government, in rejecting the recent convention, abandons neither its own claims nor those of its citizens," etc. [6]
Of course I shall choose extreme cases to illustrate the contrast between them. [6]
This screen was set on the extreme edge of the roof which overhung the banquette and shaded the yellow adobe wall of the house. [9]
Last year the Senator from Michigan was understood to be decidedly in favor of the Wilmot Proviso; and as no reason had been stated for the change, he [Mr. Miller] could not refrain from the expression of his extreme surprise. [7]
It never did seem right to me," she added, in apology for her extreme sentiments to the gentleness of her adversary. [8]
He hid his rifle in the sage, marking its exact location with extreme care. [13]
While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years. [7]
The doctor, who remembered the extreme danger of any overexertion in such cases, hardly allowed him to lift his head from the pillow. [6]
I have no relish for Puritans, either in religion or politics, who are for pushing principles to an extreme, and for overturning everything that stands in the way of their own zealous career . [4]
In 1812 it reaches its extreme limit, Moscow, and then, with remarkable symmetry, a countermovement occurs from east to west, attracting to it, as the first movement had done, the nations of middle Europe. [2]
The rain was rattling against the windows and pouring down in torrents, and such was Mr Codlin's extreme amiability of mind, that he more than once expressed his earnest hope that they would not be so foolish as to get wet. [12]
If a man present a smiling front to the world under extreme trial, is not that all that can be expected of him? [4]
During this same period the Holy Inquisition selected with extreme care the freest and boldest men in order to burn or imprison them. [1]
One magistrate in particular, a Judge Hennessy, was hated above all others for giving the extreme penalty of the law, and even stretching it. [9]
Drawing forth two packets with a gasp of relief, he put them in his pocket, and, with extreme care, proceeded to close the panel. [11]
Her condition was one of extreme danger, and the captain was by no means sure that he could make the land. [11]
These being cast on the floor in a promiscuous heap, yielded a quantity of occupation in arranging, erecting, and putting away; the superintendence of which task evidently afforded the old gentleman extreme delight, and engaged him for some time with great briskness and activity. [12]
These were standing on a table knocked together out of blocks of wood and planks at the extreme end of the hall, and behind this her father was sound asleep. [10]
Euthymia visited him often during the period of his extreme prostration. [6]
After an interval of three weeks the stolen drake was recovered, and instantly the pair recognised each other with extreme joy. [1]
Almost every part of their plumage has been taken advantage of, and modified; and the modifications have been carried, as Mr. Gould shewed me, to a wonderful extreme in some species belonging to nearly every sub-group. [1]
In the midst of the misery, as many would call it, of extreme old age, there is often a divine consolation in recalling the happy moments and days and years of times long past. [6]
But the command of the extreme left flank had been assigned to the commander of the Pavlograd regiment in which Rostov was serving, and a misunderstanding arose. [2]
But the dignity of his high office, and the feebleness of extreme age, forbade Anubis to seek the man who was suspected of friendship for the Romans. [10]
The blue cloth of his coat set off the extreme paleness of a small but serene face and high round forehead. [11]
The extreme sensitiveness of her father on this point prevented any allusion to them; but there were stories floating round, some of them even getting into the papers,--without her name, of course,--which were of a kind to excite intense curiosity, if not more anxious feelings. [6]
On the faces of all who came from the field of battle, and of those who stood around him, Kutuzov noticed an expression of extreme tension. [2]
These rafts were of a shape and construction to suit the crookedness and extreme narrowness of the Neckar. [5]
I am greatly obliged to you for your letter, and your kind advice, which gave me extreme satisfaction, because I found I had arranged most things in accordance with it, and, as your theory coincides with my practice, I feel assured the latter is right. [14]
This toil was now very laborious, for the river had fallen to so low a level as to give cause for anxiety, even at this season of extreme ebb. [10]
Their walk which now took them farther and farther from the sea extended to the extreme south of the town and the shores of lake Mareotis. [10]
But the tendency now is to push analysis of individual peculiarities to an extreme, and to substitute a study of traits for a representation of human life. [4]
Thirty centuries do not seem to have made any very great difference in the extreme limits of life. [6]
If I have not heard as many, I have had a chance to hear nearly the extreme in variety. [4]
Indeed, there was no uninhabited country on the continent which we could acquire, if we except some extreme northern regions which are wholly out of the question. [7]
Thus we are no longer permitted to place the seat of the living actions in the extreme vessels, which are only the carriers from which each part takes what it wants by the divine right of the omnipotent nucleated cell. [3]
A man over ninety is a great comfort to all his elderly neighbors: he is a picket-guard at the extreme outpost; and the young folks of sixty and seventy feel that the enemy must get by him before he can come near their camp. [6]
You, who held more extreme notions, either yielded those notions, or, if not wholly yielding them, agreed to yield them practically, for the sake of embodying the opposition to the measures which the opposite party were pushing forward at that time. [7]
The nobles and Ministers (about a dozen of them altogether) occupied the extreme left of the hall, with David Kalakaua (the King's Chamberlain) and Prince William at the head. [5]
At this gloomy meeting in his house, Byng did not join either of the two sections who represented the more extreme views and the unpolitical minds. [11]
Tossing on the mattress, Kate Marcy enacted over again incident after incident of her past life, events natural to an existence which had been largely devoid of self-pity, but which now, clearly enough, tested the extreme limits of suffering. [9]
And beside the many duties she had added to this work was one of extreme delicacy, such as required all her tact and ingenuity. [13]
Of course, no man is entirely in his right mind at any time, but I have been referring to the extreme cases. [5]
She is more like Miss ---- than any one in her ways--if you can fancy Miss ---- to have gone through suffering enough to have taken out every spark of merriment, and to be shy and silent from the habit of extreme, intense solitude. [14]
In the following letter, which relates the conclusion of his detective comedy, we find him at the other extreme, on very tiptoe with enthusiasm over something wholly without literary value or dramatic possibility. [5]
Henderson took the letter with a gesture of extreme annoyance, ran his eye through it, flung it from him on the table, and turned squarely round in his chair. [4]
Hereupon came a letter from my lord Cardinal with these tidings of good comfort: that he was willing to administer extreme unction to my grand-uncle Im Hoff, if his life should be in peril when his eminence returned from England. [10]
After folding and laying it down beside him, he bit the nails of all of his ten fingers with extreme voracity; and taking it up sharply, read it again. [12]
When he at last returned home, his house had been taken from his family, whom he found in extreme poverty. [10]
We should then know at any given time whether we are drifting into Blaineism, or Clevelandism, or centralization, or free-trade, or extreme protection, or rule by corporations. [4]
The Hellenic and Karian mercenaries were to fight at the left of the centre, the horse at the extreme of each wing, and the Egyptian and Ethiopian foot were stationed, six ranks deep, on the right and left of the armed chariots, and Greek mercenaries. [10]
Now, that is just the way in which the extreme form of book-hunger shows itself in the reader whose appetite has become over-developed. [6]

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