All 6 Uses of
extricate
in
Anna Karenina
- The only thing that interested him now was the question of in what way he could best, with most propriety and comfort for himself, and thus with most justice, extricate himself from the mud with which she had spattered him in her fall, and then proceed along his path of active, honorable, and useful existence.†
Part 3
- Without vouchsafing a syllable in reply to Vassenka's protestations that it had been quite dry there, Levin worked in silence with the coachman at extricating the horses.†
Part 6
- She begs, she implores one thing of you—to extricate her from the impossible position in which she is placed.†
Part 7
- The day after his conversation with Karenin, Stepan Arkadyevitch went to see her, and felt so youthful that in this jesting flirtation and nonsense he recklessly went so far that he did not know how to extricate himself, as unluckily he was so far from being attracted by her that he thought her positively disagreeable.†
Part 7
- In the very entry one bee hummed angrily, caught in his beard, but he carefully extricated it.†
Part 8 *
- "With the Turks," Sergey Ivanovitch answered, smiling serenely, as he extricated the bee, dark with honey and helplessly kicking, and put it with the knife on a stout aspen leaf.†
Part 8
Definition:
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(extricate) free or remove from constraint or difficulty