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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
extemporize .
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Examples
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And Dick jingled away into the house still chanting his extemporized directory.
CHAPTER XVI 2010
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Two days I lay there, too sick to move, and on the third, reeling and giddy, supporting myself on an extemporized crutch, I tottered on toward San Francisco.
THE DREAM OF DEBS 2010
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Lute crawled out from under the piano, and was joined by Rita and Ernestine in an extemporized dance of the harpies about the slain.
CHAPTER III 2010
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Then there are home-made fifes and whistles and drums, combs covered with paper, extemporized triangles, and bones made from ribs of salt horse such as negro minstrels use.
CHAPTER XLIII 2010
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Behind the jiggermast I lighted the fuse of one of my extemporized bombs.
CHAPTER XLVII 2010
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Bella's ancestry and adding to it an extemporized welcome back to
ON THE MAKALOA MAT 2010
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At his order, she threw her weight on the end of a quickly extemporized handspike, easing the pressure and listening to her husband's groans, while Malemute Kid attacked the tree with his axe.
The White Silence 2010
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He carried it well, the only noticeable effects being a flush in his eyes and a loosening of his tongue to whimsical fancies and extemporized chants.
CHAPTER XXIX 2010
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At his order, she threw her weight on the end of a quickly extemporized handspike, easing the pressure and listening to her husband's groans, while Malemute Kid attacked the tree with his axe.
THE WHITE SILENCE 2010
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I don't really think they are very deadly, and I know our extemporized fuses are slower than our voyage is at the present time; but nevertheless the bombs have served the purpose, as you shall see.
CHAPTER XLVII 2010
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