Citations:extract


 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food; but a circumstance that happened when I arrived on the confines of Switzerland, when the sun had recovered its warmth and the earth again began to look green, confirmed in an especial manner the bitterness and horror of my feelings.


 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * He was obliged to sit close to it, and brood over it, before he could extract the least sensation of warmth from such a handful of fuel.