Meanings of extreme verge in English

She was blind and paralyzed, and on the extreme verge of eternity.

The search was extended to the extreme verge of the mountain.

The boy, Leonard Bast, stood at the extreme verge of gentility.

Solomon Islands are the extreme verge.

On that bank and shoal, the extreme verge of habitable earth, the spirit of Holland's Freedom stood at bay.

It is secluded but cheerful, at the extreme verge of Putney, close to Barnes Common; just the situation Percy desired.

Only one on the extreme verge of starvation can in any manner comprehend what even a portion of a boot means.

Having license to do as they pleased, they would of course carry their cruelties to the most extreme verge of punishment.

On the extreme verge of the horizon lie a long chain of mountain peaks, with their rugged summits flecked with snow.

We of the North upon these national questions are prepared to go with you to the extreme verge of right and loyalty.

She stood on that extreme verge, so fearful and abrupt that it might have rendered dizzy a stouter head than her own.

Thus before the sixteenth century had closed, the navigators of Holland had reached almost the extreme verge of human discovery at either pole.

At this summons her companion, who until now had stood contemplating the wide view from the extreme verge of the platform, wheeled round.

He now stood on the extreme verge of the precipice, where he paused for a moment as if utterly exhausted with his previous efforts.

The vehicle at last halted at the extreme verge of the land of the living, before the gate upon which words of hope are graven.

To his copying eye, as clerk, the words, though on the extreme verge of diplomatic propriety, merely stated a fact, without novelty, fancy, or rhetoric.