It was not very far to the "finish line," as the end of the race is called.

"Now, I understand that this is to be a finish fight; rounds, two minutes; rests, two minutes.

Finish pylon, by Max Brand, pseud.

The finish boat was in sight.

In adorning your sketch, figures, both animate and inanimate, may be introduced, but sparingly; touch them slightly, for an attempt at finish offends.

I's gwine out now soon's I git my dinner an' he'p finish pickin' dat patch o' cotton.

Finish freezing.

If one of those three hundred chain-lightning thinkers or any of their ten thousand alert associates knew in advance the intentions of a fellow broker, the word would sweep through that crowd with the sureness of uncorked ether, and the other two hundred and ninty nine, at gong-strike, would be at each others' throats for his vitals, and before he knew the game had started would have his bones picked to a vulture-finish cleanness.

The style is undoubtedly Michelangelesque, the execution careful, the surface-finish exquisite, and the type of the Madonna extremely similar to that of the Pietà at S. Peter's.