Two passers-by extricated us from our difficulty.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

Xavier Durrieu succeeded in ascertaining our whereabouts, and extricated us from our difficulty.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

The interpretation did not strike me; and I fancied, perhaps luckily for my nerves, that the arrangement was prescribed simply to secure a companion, who would prevent my taking too much exercise, or eating unripe fruit, or doing any of the fifty foolish things to which young people are supposed to be prone.
— from Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

La prensa francófona extrae una frase o dos del análisis de Katz, recolecta algunos conceptos, hace un artículo de eso, y es todo.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Julia deeply regretted the decision, but was firm; and her friends left her to enjoy uninterruptedly for one day, the society of so near a relative.
— from Precaution: A Novel by James Fenimore Cooper

But, though Ludwig had just saved her from a sudden and extremely unpleasant form of death, he was not strong enough to stem the avalanche of public opinion that crashed down upon her.
— from Superwomen by Albert Payson Terhune

He was not only well stricken in years, but by an accident some years past, had lost one of his eyes, or else he would have espyed us; for one day he being abroad, and I being desirous to toy with my Landlady, we in order thereto entred her Chamber and lay down on her bed, we had not long been there
— from The English Rogue: Continued in the Life of Meriton Latroon, and Other Extravagants, Comprehending the most Eminent Cheats of Both Sexes: The Third Part by Francis Kirkman

“Some weeks after the recorded arrangement had been arrived at by Ah-Ping and Quen, when the taels in question had been expended upon the Temple and were, therefore, infallibly beyond recall, the former person chanced to be passing through the public garden in Lu-kwo when he heard a voice lifted up in the expression of every unendurable feeling of dejection to which one can give utterance.
— from The Wallet of Kai Lung by Ernest Bramah

“But if the father,” said he, “should not extricate us from our difficulties, I will do it myself by some means or other.”
— from The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni by Alessandro Manzoni

They exerted themselves to benefit us in every way, and were among the first to invoke the patriotism of the nation to extricate us from our difficulties, and save the union of the States.
— from Reminiscences of Forts Sumter and Moultrie in 1860-'61 by Abner Doubleday

Little was to be got out of me but parrying answers, and the peasants guessed me of all the countries of Europe, ultimately fixing on Denmark as my probable native country.
— from The Oxonian in Thelemarken, volume 1 (of 2) or, Notes of travel in south-western Norway in the summers of 1856 and 1857. With glances at the legendary lore of that district. by Frederick Metcalfe

Whatever man can do I know that Curtis will not leave undone to extricate us from our dilemma.” Prompted by this conversation with M. Letourneur I took the first opportunity of trying to ascertain from Curtis himself, how long he reckoned we should be obliged to remain upon the reef; but he merely replied, that it must depend upon circumstances, and that he hoped the weather would continue favourable.
— from The Survivors of the Chancellor: Diary of J.R. Kazallon, Passenger by Jules Verne

Whatever man can do I know that Curtis will not leave undone to extricate us from our dilemma."
— from The Survivors of the Chancellor by Jules Verne