Of course I was tumbled right over his rump, and rolled in the mud, and after extricating myself as well as I could, I crawled out, as pretty a figure as may well be imagined.
He himself with all eagerness pretended to seek some means of extricating his colleagues and himself from the mess in which they were.
The appointments are made by the Admiralty of England, which is composed of old men who have spent long lives at sea, and are supposed to thoroughly understand navigation, and extricating ships from all possible difficulties.
In the hope of extricating himself from his great liabilities he took Covent Garden, never calculating the dangers of the perilous and uncertain sea on which he was about floating the bark of his fortunes.
On extricating his legs, a shoe was left behind, and its loser was compelled to take off his coat, roll up his shirt sleeves, and thrust his arm down the deep aperture, to recover what had been lost.
Big news," repeated Mr. Smith, sinking thoughtlessly into the broken cane-chair and slowly extricating himself.
For months he had been revolving impossible schemes in his mind to earn her gratitude, and possibly that of the captain, by extricating Jack.
The horse on which John Bush was riding, was shot through; yet Bush succeeded in extricating himself from the falling animal, and escaped though closely pursued by one of the savages.
Extricating himself from the grasp of Poe, the small savage raised his tomahawk; but as he aimed the blow, a vigorous and well directed kick, staggered him back, and he let fall the hatchet.
Bluebell felt caught in a mesh and incapable of extricating herself, but she made no attempt to conceal her reluctance to going.
I do not know but it were as well to do so," answered Paullus, extricating the dagger from his belt, "if you will not detain us a long time.
That nobleman communicated to me the difficulties in which his majesty was placed, in order to ascertain how far it was in my power to assist in extricating him from them.
In these roots, Burl saw a means of extricating himself from his present predicament, and of escaping from the very enemy this self-same brake had aided him in coming at the hour before.
Should the creditors in some States come into the system, and those in others refuse to change their security, the government would be involved in perplexities from which no means of extricating itself had been shown.
Foster, looking at him a moment; then dropping his eyes, and with little ceremony extricating his hand from the friendly grasp of the person by whom he was addressed, "are you Michael Lambourne?
He expressed his resolution cautiously, however, doubting naturally whether Amy's hopes of extricatingherself from her difficulties rested on anything stronger than a blinded attachment to Varney, whom he supposed to be her seducer.
De Soto arrived in time to aid in extricating him from a harassing situation on the island of Puna.
The family succeeded in extricating themselves from the stranded ship, and landed safely on shore; but the remaining passengers and crew all perished.
Next morning they found themselves in the midst of a labyrinth of rocks, from which, with the help of Providence, they succeeded in extricating themselves.
It forms a dense thicket, into which it is impossible to penetrate without first cutting it away, and a person once entangled in its long tendrils has much difficulty in extricating himself, as they lay hold of everything they touch.
Then, for the first time, they assume and justify, and evidently for the mere purpose of extricating McLeod.
Although it obviously had nothing to do with channels, or extricating the ship from her extraordinary situation, our curiosity was aroused, and we determined to pay it a visit and ascertain its character before returning to the boat.
At eight o'clock, the fog lifting a little, we succeeded in extricating ourselves from our difficulties, and crossing a large heavy floe got on to a lead of young ice which gave us good travelling.
So securely was he fixed in his kayak, that it was only by unbuttoning his braces and getting out of his trousers that he succeeded in extricatinghimself from his dangerous predicament, leaving that article of dress inside the kayak!
He had no other means of extricating himself from his embarrassments.
I am so hot," said Ralph, carefully extricating himself from the boat.
I had involved myself imperceptibly in a dreary labyrinth of doubt, and, whichever way I turned, no reasonable prospect of extricating myself appeared.
Suppose I write one, I appear to have no other chance of extricating myself from my present difficulties; surely it was Fate that conducted me to his window.
The civil lieutenant was about to insist on the matter being investigated, when the lay sister in her turn went into a fit, thus extricating Mignon from his embarrassment.
This was, that a nun, held by six men chosen for their strength, would succeed in extricating herself from their grasp, despite their utmost efforts.
After a short struggle I ultimately succeeded in extricating my right foot from between the brake-pedal and the engine, and heaved the bulky mass from its repose.
When I was not extricating myself from a spicy bit of quagmire, I was poking semi-hard mud out of the wheels and mudguards.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "extricating" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
