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    extrication


    1. Faint struggles from time to time, brief efforts at extrication, show there is still a life in me that is not flawlessly benevolent, but I repent of them as soon as made because of the pain and surprise that instantly appear in Mrs


    2. Nevertheless, athwart this painful extrication of indistinct ideas which was not even a monologue, so feeble had action become in him, and he had no longer the force to care to despair, athwart this melancholy absorption, sensations from without did reach him


    3. I followed with lagging step, and thoughts busily bent on discovering a means of extrication; but he himself looked so composed and so grave also, I became ashamed of feeling any confusion: the evil—if evil existent or prospective there was—seemed to lie with me only; his mind was unconscious and quiet


    4. It was obtained from nitrate of potash, (saltpetre,) not because it was the best process, but because the substance could be obtained in the place, and because a common fire would serve for its extrication


    5. The heat however diminished in a few seconds, though the greater extrication of hydrogen from the plates indicated a more intense chemical action


    6. The extrication of hydrogen by the action of diluted sulphuric acid on iron or zinc, being the consequence of a previous, not simultaneous decomposition of water


    7. The warlike Sam remained sitting disconsolately in the coal-hod; his instructions suggested no means of extrication


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    Synonyms for "extrication"

    disentanglement extrication unsnarling untangling

    "extrication" definitions

    the act of releasing from a snarled or tangled condition