Which preposition to use with end
Claudius began to breathe his last, and could not 3 make an end of the matter.
It ended in a sob.
At once he bubbled up the ghost, and there was an end to that shadow of a life.
We had one or two friends, political men, to dinner, and they discussed the situation from every point of view, always ending with the same conclusion, that W. was right to go.
I went over three or four times to inspect the ministry, as I had a presentiment we should end by living there.
After this followed the journey to the East Coast ending at Quilemane.
Later in life, through another and unquestionably even better method, he succeeded in bringing forth a plan which attained the very end for which he sought in the '80s, but in the second resort, by a far more efficacious method.
W.'s ministry came to an end on the famous 16th of May, 1877, when Marshal MacMahon suddenly took matters in his own hands and dismissed his cabinet presided over by M. Jules Simon.
He is followed by his sister disguised as a boy, and upon Friendlove's drawing on Bellmour a scuffle ensues which, however, ends without harm.
I take a vicious and unprincipled character, and lead him through those ranks of society whose accomplishments cover and cloak their vices, and paint the natural effects;" and elsewhere, that he means to make his scamp "end as a member of the Society for the Suppression of Vice, or by the guillotine, or in an unhappy marriage."
Cut tough ends from the asparagus; scrape and boil in salted water until tender.
In fact, the whale, when in articulo mortis, makes a more tremendous rumpus about its latter end than any other animal either of the sea or land.
On the topmost branches the fertile cones are set firmly on end like small casks.
In the mouth of the water-pot rests a husked cocoanut, with a hole in the upper end into which are thrust the stems of a bouquet of jasmine, with long arms of jasmine hanging down on either side.
And I don't want you to come to a sudden end through somebody's establishing illicit intercourse with my subconscious mind.
This brings everything to an end between us.' We would all, I am sure, have given a good deal to slip from the roomat least, my own embarrassment far exceeded my interestbut the Emperor from his lofty standpoint cared as little about our presence as if we had been so many articles of furniture.
The dinner came to an end before long, and the men went out with the ladies, and began to smoke in the drawing-room, standing round the coffee.
Dickens was reporting for the Morning Chronicle, and was just starting on a journey, but yet there are here two separate flourishes; one begins under the s of Charles and ends under the C of that name; the other starts under the capital D and finishes below the n of Dickens.
I admonished him of the end towards which he was hastening.
What show you got in the end against your playin' pals like Joe Kirby and Al Flexnor?
" This question was finally compromised by agreeing that the importation of slaves should end after the year 1808.
At the crack of the rifle, the animal leapt dear of the ledge, struck once against the face of the rock some twenty feet below, and then went, end over end, thirty feet into the river.
"Davis's land begins and ends within cannon-shot of himself.
A road, starting opposite the Holy Lamb, in Church-street, and ending near the top of High- street, formerly passed through "The Park."
At the end toward the swamp a great, oriental-looking passage is left, with an arched entrance, and a pair of ponderous wooden doors.