extreme

Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke.[…]A silver snaffle on a heavy leather watch guard which connected the pockets of his corduroy waistcoat, together with a huge gold stirrup in his Ascot tie, sufficiently proclaimed his tastes.[…]But withal there was a perceptible acumen about the man which was puzzling in the extreme.

extremes of temperature

Some people go to extremes for attention on social media.

a farther paſſion feeds my thoughts,

With ceaſeleſſe and diſconſolate conceits,

Which dies my lookes so liueleſſe as they are,

And might, if my extreames had ful euents,

Make me the gaſtly counterfeit of death.