"Extend to" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... find it to be reported and believed that the accused are able to act independently in many ways, but that this independence does not extend to their legs, authority over their legs being vested exclusively in the one brother during a specific term of days, and then passing to the other brother for a like term, and so on, by regular alternation. I could ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain
... discover their thickness. They are most certainly the result of the freezing of comparatively recent pools in the winter pack, and it follows that they must be getting weaker day by day. If one could be certain firstly, that these big areas extend to the south, and, secondly, that the ship could go through them, it would be worth getting up steam. We have arrived at the edge of one of these floes, and the ship will not go through under sail, but I'm sure she would do so under steam. Is ...
— Scott's Last Expedition Volume I • Captain R. F. Scott
... only take place with the previous sanction of the police, but this restriction does not extend to meetings held in connection with elections to the Reichstag or ...
— Violence and the Labor Movement • Robert Hunter
... professional training, the same opposition was experienced, even more rancorous and cruel. One would think that on the entrance of a few straggling and necessarily inferior feminine beginners into a trade or profession, those in possession would extend to them the right hand of fellowship, as comrades, extra assistance as beginners, and special courtesy ...
— The Forerunner, Volume 1 (1909-1910) • Charlotte Perkins Gilman
... is it only clay, Bleeding and aching in the potter's hand, Yet all his own to treat it as he will, And when he will to cast it at his feet, Shattered, dishonored, lost for evermore? My dog loves me, but could he look beyond His earthly master, would his love extend To Him who—hush! I will not doubt that He Is better than our fears, and will not wrong The least, the ...
— The Dog's Book of Verse • Various
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