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Definition of Extricating
1. extricate [v] - See also: extricate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Extricating
Literary usage of Extricating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Studies of a Biographer by Sir Leslie Stephen (1902)
"extricating himself from his difficulties by the methods familiar to the courtiers
of the time. The most singular case was that of Sir Robert Drury. ..."
2. The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides (1855)
"To what purpose this 1 If here you are met together to retail your suspicions of
future events, or to talk of any thing but the proper means of extricating ..."
3. Personal Sketches of His Own Times by Jonah Barrington (1854)
"... Scene ust my Brother's Hunting-Lodge--Joe Kelley's used Peter Alley's React.
fastened to the Wall—Operations practised in extricating Them. ..."
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