He planned then and there a dramatic climax which should take the breath away from his opponent, and change the whole feeling of the court towards the prisoner.

He held in reserve a great surprise for the senator's son, a grand climax and tableau was to close the scene, or rather, as Desmond classed it in his mind, grand comedy.

The annexation of the world's championship in a record breaking world's series with the New York Giants was a fitting climax to their season's achievement.

To such a tragic climax, Phillips drives steadily onward from the first scene, thus focusing the interest on a concrete dramatic situation.

She realized then that she must be prepared any moment to be overwhelmed by the inevitable climax of this meeting.

He often brings his tiresome extravaganzas to a magnificent climax of melody, and just as often concludes an inimitable chant with a most contemptible bathos.

But, then, in actual life this is often the way the dreadful climaxes move upon us, leaving the heart undisturbed almost to the last minute, and then overwhelming it with a sudden rush of horror.

As long as possible, however, I postponed this little climax, and tried to ignore or laugh at the occasional sentences he flung into the emptiness.

The drama of each drew to a splendid climax with the arrival in Newbern of a French officerprobably a generalbound upon a grave mission.

Underneath, in those remoter regions of consciousness where the emotions, unknown to their owners, do secretly mature, and owe thence their abrupt revelation to some abrupt psychological climax, there can be no doubt that Joan's love for the Canadian had been growing steadily and irresistibly all the time.

In the novel and the drama, both of which may have a complicated plot, several minor climaxes or crises may be found.

But I could not rise to this dramatic, or, better, melodramatic, climax.

But he now lost a definite climax when his wife's comment was heard to be: "Monona!

No more disgraceful climax was ever reached by a disgraceful dynasty of profligates than that which found a King of Englandlong, as Regent, the leader of the profligate and degradedat war with his injured Queen.

He knew all the arts and tricks of oratory, the modulation of the voice to almost a whisper, the pause for effect, the rise through light, rapid-fire sentences to the terrific, thundering outburst of an electrifying climax.

He seemed rather to reproach her for hindering the onward sweep of their happinessfor opposing him with her ideas when they might together have attained a beautiful emotional climax.

The story centers about one of the boys who has an "active war" in his family and whose martial adventures with those of his grown-up brother give a strong appeal to the narrative and furnish an exciting climax.

"Then through the wolfI'll conquer through the dumb beast!" She whipped past Byrne and disappeared into the house; at the same instant the whistling, in the midst of a faint, high climax, broke, shivered, and was ended.

And the other lady with the fascinating algebraic climax to her name,—she, too, is impossible; it seems that I can’t get the money by marrying her.

And yet, even as I rehearsed the ghastly climax in my mind, I told myself that the mother would rather see him even thus, than married to a widow who had also been divorced; it was the younger woman who would never forgive me, or herself.

Oh, glorious climax of a vulgar squabble, To redden your foe's nose, or make him hobble For half a week or so, as though, perchance, He'd strained an ancle in a leap or dance!

"It means that you're dropped down in this groaning, heavy-spirited twentieth century, troubled about many things, from the exact year that was the golden climax of the Renaissance; that you're a perfect specimen of the high-hearted, glorious ..." he qualified on a second thought, "unless your astonishing capacity to analyze it all, comes from the nineteenth century?" "No, that comes from Father," explained Sylvia, laughing.

One brother he caused to be whipped in public; another was put to the torture, which had its horrible climax when Peter himself saturated his victim's clothes with spirits of wine, and then set them on fire.

The outer storm was hardly audible through the window-shutters, but there was an atmosphere of impending climax, like the hush and rumble that precedes eruptions.

" Still he to whom these fearful disclosures were being made remained as silent and motionless as an Indian captive, and, after another pause, with its painful accompaniment of small sounds, the fair speaker resumed with more energy, as befitting the approach to an incredible climax: "Some day', 'Sieur Grandissime,id mague me fo'gid my hage!