16 Metaphors for extremities

The western extremity of this particular group of hills is Cheddington, about three miles from Beaminster, where is, perhaps, the most extensive view in Dorset.

But we were once more doomed to be interrupted by the sudden turning of the river short off to the northward, when it wound round a point a mile long, and a quarter wide, the extremity of which is low and sandy, a character only this once observed in the Albert; on the opposite side were cliffs thirty feet high.

In latitude 28 degrees there is a communication with the inlet at the south side of Moreton Bay, insulating the land whose north extremity is Point Lookout.

To the north the land suddenly terminates with rather a steep slope, but a low sandy plain extends to the East-North-East for three miles further, the extremity of which is the North-West Cape.

Even this extremity of their formation was a mile or two to leeward of the cove, and all the craft, catamarans included, were drifting still further south, under the influence of the current.

The North-West extremity of the singular flat-topped hill being 1 minute 05 seconds North, and 45 seconds East of this spot.

The upper and outer extremity of the vibraculum is bifid, and to the inner horn is articulated the seta, and from the notch between the two horns there is continued nearly, if not quite, to the inner extremity of the organ, and along its upper border, a shallow groove, in which is lodged the seta when in a state of rest.

A few soiled masses of masonry, black with age, stood along the brow of the mountain, on whose extremity were the ruins of a castle of the middle ages.

The North-West extremity of the singular flat-topped hill being 1 minute 05 seconds North, and 45 seconds East of this spot.

CROKER'S ISLAND is twenty-one miles and a quarter from north to south, and from two to five broad, its northern extremity is in 10 degrees 58 minutes 30 seconds latitude, and 132 degrees 34 minutes 10 seconds longitude; about three-quarters of a mile within it there is a remarkable rocky knob: its south extreme is in 11 degrees 19 1/4 minutes.

Their extremities were very great and many days being entirely without food, the savages there being more indolent and less devouring than those who had better supplies.

Sorrow purifies and deepens the soul, and the extremity of sorrow is the prelude to Truth.

But undoubtedly that extremity is the vanishing extremity of these things.

The eastern extremity of the base of the easternmost peak was nearly 2 degrees of arc, or nine-tenths of a mile in space, to the west of the line as it passed the same latitude.

Jack's extremity would be his, Lieutenant Beverly's, opportunity.

And the extremity of the rational soul is opinion, which in his Sophista he defines to be that power which knows the conclusion of dianoia.

16 Metaphors for  extremities