13 Metaphors for termination

The termination of this train of thought was the sudden suspicion that this very being was at that moment in close proximity.

This unfortunate termination to her well-meant efforts in behalf of the unhappy pair was a severe blow to Mrs. Upton.

And which is the greater innovation, merely to drop, on familiar occasions, or when it suits our style, one obsolescent verbal termination,a termination often dropped of old as well as now,or to strike from the conjugations of all our verbs one sixth part of their entire scheme?

In Latin, the termination is bilis, and the preceding vowel is determined by the conjugation to which the verb belongs.

The termination of the past participle in -n or -en is a sure indication that a verb is strong.

A final and formal termination of the distressing war which has ravaged our Northwestern frontier will be an event which must afford a satisfaction proportionate to the anxiety with which it has long been sought, and in the adjustment of the terms we perceive the true policy of making them satisfactory to the Indians as well as to the United States as the best basis of a durable tranquillity.

11.For feminine nouns formed by inflection, the regular termination is ess; but the manner in which this ending is applied to the original or masculine noun, is not uniform: 1.

They are | avoi | avee |-||||-| The terminations are the three pronouns, feminine and masculine, singular and plural, each represented by one of twelve vowel characters, and declined like nouns.

23.Possibly, those personal terminations of the verb which do not form syllables, are mere contractions or relics of est and eth, which are syllables; but it is perhaps not quite so easy to prove them so, as some authors imagine.

Many such trees are seen in recent clearings; and when their termination is a regular hemisphere of branches and foliage, the tree exhibits a shape nearly approaching that of a parasol.

Its termination is bifid, and it is inserted on either side to the lateral surface of the second phalanx.

The French termination on became oon in bassoon, pontoon, balloon, galloon, spontoon, raccoon, (Fr. raton,)

It was most dangerously steep, and, its termination being the fretted coping of the precipice to which I have referred, if we slid downward we should shoot over this and be dashed to pieces upon the ice below.

13 Metaphors for  termination