Both Uses of
extricate
in
The House of Mirth
- "You're quite sure," she added solicitously, as the latter extricated herself, "that you wouldn't like me to telephone for Lawrence Selden?"†
Chpt 1.4 *
- Carry had in fact come dangerously near to being involved in the episode of Mrs. Norma Hatch, and it had taken some verbal ingenuity to extricate herself.†
Chpt 2.10
Definition:
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(extricate) free or remove from constraint or difficulty