His loving companion, eyes and month dilated with horror, stood still and rigid, gazing upon the fearful descent, and its tragic ending, then throwing her arms aloft, and giving a fearful shriek of agony that thrilled with horror the hearts of the hearersif there were anycast herself down in exact imitation of the fall of her hero, rolled over and over as he did, and ended by mingling her blood with his upon the same stones.

" "Well, that simplifies things," I said; and without wasting any further time in self-reproaches, I plunged straight into the story of Sonia's surprise visit and its abrupt and spirited ending.

You will remark the fine effect of the double endings.

It was a sad ending.

The morning papers gave a full account of the grand ball, the announcement of Sir Stephen's peerage, and the sudden and tragic ending to a life which had been lived full in the public gaze, a life of struggle and success, which had been cut down at the very moment of extreme victory.

Instructive and practical endings from master chess.

The "War to end war," the war "to make the world safe for democracy" came to a formal ending, and for a few hours the world gazed spellbound on golden hopes.

The place below the earth where the dead go (gimokud, "spirit;" -an, plural ending); that is, [the place of] many spirits.

It is surely much better that they should be brought to their natural unemphatic ending, than that they should be either falsified or ignored.

These weak endings without a pause are characteristic of Massinger.

These abound in blood-vessels, lymphatics, and peculiar nerve-endings, which will be described in connection with the organ of touch (sec. 314).

Nevertheless it is and must ever be true that, at a very early period in the scheming of his play, the playwright ought to assure himself that his theme is capable of a satisfactory ending.

Château-Renard had withdrawn, but his seconds hastened to express their horror at the fatal ending of the combat.

Beaumont and Fletcher's blank verse is musical, but less masculine than Marlowe's or Shakspere's, by reason of their excessive use of extra syllables and feminine endings.

Where earth doth end with endless ending, All such as dwell, thy signs affright them; And in thy praise their voices spending, Both houses of the sun delight them- Both whence he comes, when early he awakes, And where he goes, when evening rest he takes.

Of all wars that ever were fought this war is least likely to have an indecisive ending.

When Skim went to bed his story had got into an aggravating muddle, but during the next forenoon he managed to bring it to a triumphant ending.

"Hurrah!" cried "Rats," who was in a great state of excitement when the news arrived; "they won't ask us again if we'd like to play a master, the cheeky beggars!" The same afternoon on which Ronleigh so distinguished herself saw also the melancholy ending of the school life of two of her number.

There is nothing in it of sordidness for sordidness' sake nor have the realists any philosophy of an unhappy ending.

She had tried to please him and to be thoughtful about his mother and grandmother; and this was not a pleasant ending.

Many excellent themes would be distorted and ruined by having an emphatic ending forced upon them.

Thus Cymbeline is, in its fortunate ending, really as much of a comedy as Winter's Taleto which its plot bears a resemblanceand is only technically a tragedy because it contains a violent death.

A logical ending.

But Noaks had never forgotten the double humiliation he had suffered at Chatfordfirst in being sent off the football field, and again in the disastrous ending to the attempted raid on the Birchites' fireworks; nor had he forgiven the Triple Alliance for the part which they had played, especially on the latter occasion, in bringing shame and confusion on the heads of the Philistines.

An obviously makeshift ending can never be desirable, either from the ideal or from the practical point of view.