例文・使い方で印象づける「verge」の覚え方
スポンサーリンク...Just as he thought himself on the verge of winning a fortune, he lost it all by an unfortunate speculation... 
Vicente Blasco Ibanez Charlotte Brewster Jordan 「The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse」
...I am master at home, Captain d’Artagnan, and I shall have servants who, lacking, perhaps, your genius, will carry devotion and obedience to the verge of heroism...
Alexandre Dumas, Pere 「The Man in the Iron Mask」
...Presently the conversation seemed to leavethe flowery paths of art and to verge perilously near forbidden topics...
John Buchan 「Mr. Standfast」
... Sometimes he was upon the verge of tears, and again he waspromising his listener either fabulous rewards or condign punishment;but the other was obdurate...
Edgar Rice Burroughs 「The Beasts of Tarzan」
...And so he sought upand down the verge of the stagnant water for traces of an old spoorthat would have been invisible to your eyes or mine, even had wefollowed directly in the tracks of its maker...
Edgar Rice Burroughs 「Tarzan the Terrible」
... The thought was so awful that it brought him to the verge of mania...
Baroness Orczy 「El Dorado」
...By thistime the plane was moving along the ground and even then Usanga wasupon the verge of leaping out, and would have done so had he beenable to unfasten the strap from about his waist...
Edgar Rice Burroughs 「Tarzan the Untamed」
...Sometimes I have hoped that I might be upon the verge ofwinning a full pardon, but really in the depths of my heart I haveknown that I should never live to regain civilization...
Edgar Rice Burroughs 「Tarzan the Untamed」
...We were now on the verge only of the inundated plain of the Makata, which, even with the last year's rain, was too horrible to think of undertaking again in cold blood...
Henry M. Stanley 「How I Found Livingstone」
...Going up to the spot, it proved to be a very aged man, apparently on the verge of a century, much emaciated, and too feeble to crawl further in company with his flying towns-people...
Horatio Bridge 「Journal of an African Cruiser」
...Within the verge, the water is discolored by recent contact with the earth; beyond it, ripples the uncontaminated, pure, blue ocean...
Horatio Bridge 「Journal of an African Cruiser」
...The mother, at the verge of the grave, may not gather her children, to impart to them her holy admonitions, and invoke for them her dying benediction...
Frederick Douglass 「My Bondage and My Freedom」
...Joe’s daughter was close beside her, and they kissed each other good-by, Alva on the verge of tears, Anita not suggesting any emotion of any sort...
Various 「Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905」
...” And she panted off, leavingmother on the verge of tears, and mequivering with excitement...
Various 「Ainslee's magazine, Volume 16, No. 3, October, 1905」
... It is the only resource fora helpless and unarmed people when brought to the verge of despair...
Emma Goldman 「Anarchism and Other Essays」
...To the verge of the narrow ledge the two combatants had rolled in theirunloving embrace...
Albert Payson Terhune 「Further Adventures of Lad」
..." So many speciesexist, and the various species are so difficult to differentiate,that the family drives most field ornithologists to the verge ofdespair...
Douglas Dewar 「Birds of the Indian Hills」
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