The rest were concerned with flooded basements, stuck elevators, rescue calls, and "extrication" - i.e., getting cats out of trees. From Wordnik.com. [I'm A Stranger Here Myself]
'And her extrication is to be a certainty to me, that this has really happened?'. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete] Reference
TROTTER: Well, yes, they used heavy-duty extrication equipment. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 8, 2005] Reference
None of them were -- needed extrication upon entering the area. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 5, 2007] Reference
Do not flatter yourself or me with the vain hope of extrication. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844] Reference
Continent, and from which all extrication was made hopeless, until the. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859] Reference
Could there be, even for him, some mode of extrication from his misery?. From Wordnik.com. [Can You Forgive Her?] Reference
Four of the major injuries required extrication by hydraulic rescue tools. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 27, 2005] Reference
Ford and I had fought for slow extrication and keeping the aid request alive. From Wordnik.com. [The Long Shadow Of Vietnam] Reference
Either remedy will promote a speedy extrication of gravel through the kidneys. From Wordnik.com. [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference
Or will it not be so dramatic, this eventual extrication from the muck of mucks?. From Wordnik.com. [Richard Laermer: Today's Question: How'd it All Get So Mediocre?] Reference
This heat, we must now observe, is always very sensible before the extrication of any gas. From Wordnik.com. [The American Practical Brewer and Tanner] Reference
Or, if they required some form of extrication, the fire department was responsible for that. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 7, 2005] Reference
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Approximately nine full extrication units, and ten full fire departments. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 11, 2002] Reference
Thinking himself in a net where there was no extrication he experienced the adrenalin of bravado. From Wordnik.com. [Corpus of a Siam Mosquito] Reference
DOBBS: I want to know what the future holds and what the hope is for extrication of those troops. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 3, 2007] Reference
“Quagmire – a difficult or precarious situation from which extrication is almost impossible.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Vietnam/Iraq Quagmire] Reference
Synodalia, I may say that I have not as yet met with any tolerable extrication of these difficulties. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed] Reference
And we took a number of extrication equipment, like backboards, and -- and enough oxygen for everybody. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 6, 2006] Reference
The demoralized establishment, which had launched us into the quagmire, abdicated from the task of extrication. From Wordnik.com. [The Long Shadow Of Vietnam] Reference
No man can confide in him, and you ought to feel happy at your extrication from all near connection with him. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.] Reference
I, too, think these objects of great importance -- ample means for yourself and extrication from your load of debt. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order] Reference
We are warned that the following species are "difficult of extrication," either confluent or mixed by intercrossing. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 484, April 11, 1885] Reference
The warlike Sam remained sitting disconsolately in the coal-hod; his instructions suggested no means of extrication. From Wordnik.com. [The Aldine, Vol. 5, No. 1., January, 1872 A Typographic Art Journal] Reference
It was feelings of pain that urged a man's extrication so that he might find situations and quests more worthy of his time. From Wordnik.com. [An Apostate: Nawin of Thais] Reference
Eleanor beyond any hope of extrication, but for the quick imagination that unwound her riddles almost as she presented them. From Wordnik.com. [Turn About Eleanor] Reference
"Rachel," he began almost helplessly, "I am beyond extrication in debt to thee -- thou golden, thou undecipherable mystery!". From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
Here, in the extremest perturbation, she saw the full extent of her difficulties, without perceiving any means of extrication. From Wordnik.com. [Camilla] Reference
“Here, ye auld doited deevil,” said Caleb, still exulting in his extrication from a dilemma which had seemed insurmountable. From Wordnik.com. [The Bride of Lammermoor] Reference
As you, for the moment, answer that question, I think the extrication of the driver has occurred sooner than we may have thought. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 27, 2006] Reference
What can the United States do here or are we so, as you say, committed and so engaged that extrication is unthinkable at this point?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 12, 2006] Reference
Whether or not the Jaws of Life were used and some other tools that we have in our squad, it was in fact a pretty serious extrication. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 8, 2005] Reference
But now -- why, we have got into a mess, a quagmire from which each fresh step renders the difficulty of extrication immensely greater. From Wordnik.com. [Joe Lauria: One Hundred Years of Imperial Bluster] Reference
They presented several grievances, including urgent action to be taken against perpetrators of human rights abuses, the extrication of the. From Wordnik.com. [Ashley Judd: Please, Population Control is Not the Answer for Congo] Reference
But now -- why, we have got into a mess, a quagmire, from which each fresh step renders the difficulty of extrication immensely greater. From Wordnik.com. [Christopher Lydon: We Have Been Here Before] Reference
Last week NEWSWEEK suggested that the vagaries of extrication from Somalia may be "the first fateful decision" of Bill Clinton's presidency. From Wordnik.com. [When Everyone's An Amateur] Reference
You tell me that it is ashore near you, and the Captain and crew upon parole, to be liberated if they assist in the extrication of the vessel. From Wordnik.com. [Springhaven] Reference
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