Their idea of their powers is always taken at the utmost stretch of legislative competence, and their examples for common cases from the exceptions of the most urgent necessity.

The utmost stretch of human wisdom cannot, at this time, compass a plan short of separation, which can promise the continent even a year's security.

I assure you the utmost stretch of public fame would not make me amends for the loss of any happiness in private life.

But the utmost stretch of the imagination would not allow me to realize the truth.

Or that those things, which with the utmost stretch of his reason he can scarce comprehend, should be moved and managed without any reason at all?

But to know that he was alive there, with every nerve and perception at its utmost stretch.

Those who have quitted the world, and those who have not yet arrived at it, are as remote from each other as the utmost stretch of mortal imagination can conceive.

One letter writer to The Irish Times stated unequivocally that the picture in question is as remote from beauty as the utmost stretch of mortal imagination can conceive.

The montgolfier, elongated to its utmost stretch, was manifestly being sucked into a vortex.

Then rising, on his utmost stretch he stood, And aim'd from high: the full descending blow Cleaves the broad front and beardless cheeks in two.