extremity

• The spinal cord terminates posteriorly in a pointed extremity, which is continued by a mass of nerve trunks--cauda equinć. —  Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
• Your extremity is their opportunity. —  Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler
• This is because the ice at the extremity is all the time pressed forward by the mass behind it; and, as it comes to the brink, it breaks over and falls down. —  Rollo in Switzerland
• On the further extremity is a raised floor, where stands the royal bed of purple velvet and gold, lined with white satin painted in a very superior style. —  Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808
• At the lower extremity--that is to say, the extremity which the fugitives were now approaching--access to the defile was gained by means of a sort of portal, less than six feet wide, the space between the rock walls thence narrowing gradually to about four feet, and thus forming a kind of passage about fifty feet long; beyond which the rock walls gradually receded from each other until, at the other extremity of it, the defile was nearly a hundred feet wide. —  The Cruise of the Thetis A Tale of the Cuban Insurrection

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