For, being a creature, and therefore always dependent with respect to what he requires for complete satisfaction, he can never be quite free from desires and inclinations, and as these rest on physical causes, they can never of themselves coincide with the moral law, the sources of which are quite different; and therefore they make it necessary to found the mental disposition of one's maxims on moral obligation, not on ready inclination, but on respect, which demands obedience to the law, even though one may not like it; not on love, which apprehends no inward reluctance of the will towards the law.
— from The Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant

But what I am anxious to arrive at is it is one thing for instance to invent those rays Röntgen did or the telescope like Edison, though I believe it was before his time Galileo was the man, I mean, and the same applies to the laws, for example, of a farreaching natural phenomenon such as electricity
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

Your father--" he turned to the young Count Schlick--"the noble Count Joachim who voted for the Elector of Saxony was quite right--but the past is irreparable, and now we must defend ourselves to the last extremity.
— from Gabriel: A Story of the Jews in Prague by S. (Salomon) Kohn

The Indians seemed ripe for mischief and the stalwart Scots were determined to defend their dear ones to the last extremity.
— from Ti-Ti-Pu: A Boy of Red River by J. Macdonald (James Macdonald) Oxley

The Dispensary of the Tuberculosis League employs six nurses.
— from Nurses' Papers on Tuberculosis : read before the Nurses' Study Circle of the Dispensary Department, Chicago Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium by Chicago (Ill.). Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium. Dispensary Department

While the consultation was going on outside, we were making hasty preparation for defending ourselves to the last extremity.
— from The Gorilla Hunters by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

Dropping on to the loose earth, he scrambled over it towards the oil lamp by whose light the mistri and his assistant were working.
— from In Clive's Command: A Story of the Fight for India by Herbert Strang

Mary Murray, daughter of the third Lord Elibank, with issue - 1.
— from History of the Mackenzies, with genealogies of the principal families of the name by Alexander Mackenzie

If this be so, the sooner we take advantage of our present victory by seeking to turn our eyes from the past as far as can be, and to look steadily toward a future in which the misery and sin which that past saw shall be dwelt on to the least extent that is practicable, the better it will be for ourselves as well as for the rest of the world.
— from Before the War by Haldane, R. B. Haldane (Richard Burdon Haldane), Viscount

I like the doing of the thing less even than the thing itself.
— from The Vicar of Bullhampton by Anthony Trollope

(b) A phrase much used by way of enforcement or emphasis, usually in negative or interrogative sentences, and signifying in any way or respect; in the least degree or to the least extent; in the least; under any circumstances; as, he has no ambition at all; has he any property at all?
— from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1st 100 Pages) by Noah Webster