Citations:extent


 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * I afterwards learned that, knowing my father's advanced age and unfitness for so long a journey, and how wretched my sickness would make Elizabeth, he spared them this grief by concealing the extent of my disorder.
 * I wished to see him again, that I might wreak the utmost extent of abhorrence on his head and avenge the deaths of William and Justine.
 * But I was bewildered, perplexed, and unable to arrange my ideas sufficiently to understand the full extent of his proposition.


 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * And every man on board, waking or sleeping, good or bad, had had a kinder word for another on that day than on any day in the year; and had shared to some extent in its festivities; and had remembered those he cared for at a distance, and had known that they delighted to remember him.