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Meanings of last extremity in English

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Usage of last extremity in English
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The closing week in November saw him driven to the last extremity.
Jane Cable
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They wandered from window to window in the last extremity of anxiety.
Remember the Alamo
3
But you must be in the last extremity, or she is ice.
Diana of the Crossways — Volume 4
4
The Aduaticans, on the contrary, defended them selves to the last extremity.
A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 1
5
We knew that they would stand by us to the last extremity.
France and England in North America, Part VI : Montcalm and Wolf...
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Further successes under Gordon's leadership reduced the T'ai-p'ings to their last extremity.
China and the Manchus
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The scheme was a desperate one, and attempted only in the last extremity.
For the Term of His Natural Life
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I became distracted; my despair reduced me to the last extremity.
Hunger
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And believed in them to the last extremity of faith that was possible.
A Noble Life
10
The aged monarch, in the last extremity of sickness, lay upon a couch.
In Freedom's Cause : A Story of Wallace and Bruce
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But Orsino refused to go to his father, except in the last extremity.
Don Orsino
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The relatives of D'Horn were now reduced to the last extremity.
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 1
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The load of rations must not, save at the last extremity, be broached.
Sketches of the East Africa Campaign
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Sylvia followed with her father, at the last extremity of agitation and perplexity.
The Bent Twig
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There are two who at the last extremity would not be absolutely disagreeable.
L'Abbe Constantin — Volume 2
16
Col'o Magaw replied he should defend it to the last extremity.
American Prisoners of the Revolution
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