Crusoe recoiling from the footprint, Achilles shouting over against the Trojans, Ulysses bending the great bow, Christian running with his fingers in his ears, these are each culminating moments in the legend, and each has been printed on the mind's eye forever.

It is merely the truthful account of certain incidents of a love affair culminating one Easter Day.

And painful, indeed, would it be to relate the events of one sad day which culminated in her declaiming at night, with far more than perfunctory warmth, and in a voice scarce dry of tears: "Miss Lucy Wright, though not so tall, Was just the age of Sophy Ball; But I have always understood Miss Sophy was not half so good; For as they both had faded teeth, Their teacher sent for Doctor Heath.

From this impulse arose the movement which, widened and directed by much practical experience, has culminated in the preparation of the Oxford English Dictionary, 'A new English Dictionary on Historical Principles, founded mainly on the materials collected by the Philological Society.'

A threatening day had culminated in a fierce tropical downpoura cloud-burstwhen the very heavens had seemed to open.

Wonderland culminated with the disappearance of Cossar's twin realms of boot sole up the central hole.

And thenall in a moment it came, a moment of culminating horror more awful than anything she had ever before experiencedthe ground fell suddenly away from the racing feet.

Meanwhile the Serbs of Montenegro had joined in the fray and had fared better, inflicting some unpleasant defeats on the Turks under their bishop, Peter I. These culminated in two battles in 1796 (the Montenegrins, not being mentioned in the treaty of peace, had continued fighting), in which the Turks were driven back to Scutari.

At this crisis a great Pope was called to the government of the Church,Innocent III., under whose able rule the papal power culminated.

Adj. highest &c (high) &c 206; top; top most, upper most; tiptop; culminating &c v.; meridian, meridional^; capital, head, polar, supreme, supernal, topgallant.

From 1876 to 1913 Mr. Punch's cartoons on the Near East are one continuous and illuminating commentary on Lord Salisbury's historic admission that we had "backed the wrong horse," culminating in the cartoon "Armageddon: a Diversion" in December, 1912, when Turkey says "Good!

Never did I see greater enthusiasm until the night which culminated the tragedy of Ysabel Herrera.