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Definition of Extracting:
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Yet the Liberals had several means of extracting a vote on the subject, which they had lacked in the second half of the preceding session.
- "The Government of England (Vol. I)", A. Lawrence Lowell. -
Being observed himself, Cerizet departed, thinking over in his mind the various difficulties that might arise in extracting the sum hidden beneath the dying man.
- "The Lesser Bourgeoisie", Honore de Balzac. -
I told them it was a kind of stone from which gold was obtained; but that it must be taken to some place where there was plenty of coal or wood, before the gold could be melted out of it, and then intrusted to white men who understood the art of extracting the precious metal from the rocks.
- "The Boy Slaves", Mayne Reid.