“If the degree of participation were known, it might operate in aggravation or extenuation of the degree of his guilt.”

“Nor is it any extenuation of this crime to argue that most of that property was bequeathed by Papists, and therefore became lawfully forfeited to the State at the overthrow of that Church in Britain.”

“Showing that some of those killed were even more bloodthirsty than their killers is no extenuation.”

“Even drink, that great extenuator of grievous bodily harm inflicted on the fairground, could not turn a rape into the natural outcome of uncontrollable impulses.”

“They were clad in silken extenuations from the throat to the feet.”

“Many died of it every day, so that now all our extenuations abated.”