Meanings of drive to extremities in English

The faithful Stilicho came to the rescue; and Alaric was driven to extremities.

Then she burst forth, with the growl of a slave driven to extremities.

This the latter felt sure that he would not do, even if driven to extremities.

John, driven to extremities, seriously threatened to denounce him and hand him over to justice.

When driven to extremities, he, in a fit of despair, accused Therese of being afraid of Camille.

The conscription has become, for all France, a frightful scourge, because it has always been driven to extremities in its execution.

When he was driven to extremities, he lifted the veil entirely, and declared that the Law had no longer any force.

He had never been driven to extremities before, and he was so dazed that he did not know what to do.

At this direct appeal, your doctor, driven to extremities, adopted either the wise or cowardly resolution of maintaining a strict silence.

"I-am-no-prince, "atlast stuttered Philip, now driven to extremities.

"When a man's driven to extremities he goes mad."

Darnley, driven to extremities by this, summoned Morton, Ruthven, Lennox, Lindley, and Douglas's bastard, and fixed the assassination of Rizzio for two days later.

On the contrary, he is armed with canine teeth nearly an inch long, and when driven to extremities will defend himself against the fiercest wolf-hound.

"But the climate does not agree with her," continued the tender husband, almost driven to extremities by the persevering simplicity of his father.

Driven to extremities, Charles determined to seize the five members, John Pym, John Hampden (SS432, 436), and three others, who headed the opposition.