It seemed to me that my head touched the skies, and that nothing was lacking to the culmination of my ecstatic bliss.

It was indeed a tragic situation, and all the more so when viewed as the sorry outcome and culmination of a hundred years of Prussian diplomacy and statecraft.

ROBERT BELL Culmination of the Power of Burgundy Treaty of Péronne (A.D. 1468)

[Footnote 8: See Culmination of the Power of Burgundy, page 125.]

MENZEL (The famous treaty of Verdun was the culmination of a series of civil wars between the descendants of Charlemagne.

It is the outcome of a long series of events, the culmination of the friction and contact with the Western world in the last half-century, especially the last thirty years, and of the importation of Western ideas and methods into China by her foreign-educated students and other agents.

The culmination of Hargraves audacious imitation took place in the third act.

That authority cannot have been acquired in a day, but represents the culmination of a long and gradual movement.

What we have to note is that the movement, some of the stages of which we have been tracing, has now definitely reached its culmination.

It has been the culmination of the discoveries, the researches, yes, and the failures, of others, until the time was ripe and the destined man appeared.

With Schwenckfeld, and also with Franck, mysticism is still essentially pietism; with Weigel, and by the addition of ideas from Paracelsus, it is transformed into theosophy, and as such reaches its culmination in Böhme.

German mysticism reaches its culmination in the Görlitz cobbler, Jacob Böhme (1575-1624; Aurora, or the Rising Dawn; Mysterium Magnum, or on the First Book of Moses, etc.

It is so hard to love voluntarily,to satisfy one's self with minor affections,to know that life offers no more its grandest culmination, its divinest triumph,to accept a succession of wax-lights because the sun and the day can return no more,above all, to feel that the capacity of receiving that sunlight is fled,that, so far, one's own power is eternally narrowed, like the loss of a right hand or the blinding of a right eye!

It marks the culmination of the renaissance in the literary art of Germany and perhaps of Europe.

How foolish to wait for the culmination of a secret story!

Ay, even in these fishes, which, venturing too far from their natural depths, and becoming amorous of the sun, and playful in their escapades, he might see the symbol of man himself, who, when he leaves the paths of prudence, and gets top-light with pleasure, is ready, in every culmination of his delirium, to be caught by a waiting retribution.

It appeared to me that by following the exact facts I must either lose sight of the final triumph, which connects my heroine for ever with Germany and all Romish Christendom, and is the very culmination of the whole story, or relinquish my only opportunity of doing Conrad justice, by exhibiting the remaining side of his character.

But these parallel tendencies, in all their strength and weakness, reached, as it were, symbolic culmination when the mediæval monarchy was extinguished, and the English squires gave to what was little more than a German squire the damaged and diminished crown.

Richard would far rather Mrs. Dr. Van Buren had been in Boston, or Paris, or Guinea, than there in Chicopee, staring so coolly at him; but as her being there was something he could not help, he accepted it as a part of the train of calamities closing so fast about him, and answered, respectfully: "It was no one thing which made her go, but the culmination of many.

The passage of this act was the culmination of years of efforts in and out of Congress.

The Muses Elizium is in truth the culmination of a long sequence of pastoral work.

Past history had come to its culmination, but there were few who understood the situation and were prepared to cope with it.

For the culmination and decline, as well as appreciation, of him, see the "French Revolution," by Carlyle (1732-1799).

But the culmination approaches!

Interest in medieval Catholicism and in folk-lore is one of the most prominent traits in the Romantic movement, which reached its culmination during the boyhood of Heine.