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  • The Hate rose to its climax.   (source)
    climax = highest intensity
  • Rich with a wealth of harmonics, their tremulous chorus mounted towards a climax, louder and ever louder–until at last, with a wave of his hand, the conductor let loose the final shattering note of ether-music and blew the sixteen merely human blowers clean out of existence.   (source)
    climax = time of highest intensity
  • The strain upon pent emotion reached its climax when the boy said: "—and as the doctor fetched the board around and Muff Potter fell, Injun Joe jumped with the knife and—"   (source)
    climax = most intense period
  • This was the climax.   (source)
  • Not so Mr. Edgar: he grew pale with pure annoyance: a feeling that reached its climax when his lady rose, and stepping across the rug, seized Heathcliff's hands again, and laughed like one beside herself.   (source)
    climax = most intense level
  • As the movie reached one of its many climaxes, I giggled at something ridiculous and he said, "Are you enjoying this?"†   (source)
  • At the climax of the show, during a moment designed to make the viewer jump, Mamaw flipped off the lights and screamed in my ear.†   (source)
  • The next ten minutes played out like the climax of a John Woo movie.†   (source)
  • It got to be that after a few times the boys sang along with me, a crescendo that climaxed, after a quick intake of air while I underlined the proper note, with such a rousing rendition of my new name that it would have been the delight of any choirmaster.†   (source)
  • Best of all, I had found a climax to the holiday that Will would never forget—a skydive, with the help of parachute instructors who were trained in helping quads jump.†   (source)
  • "When I get too much of them, I don't climax.†   (source)
  • The climax of mating season is nearly upon us-the Senior Prom.†   (source)
  • The prologue rose to its reasonable climax: For that fortuitous girl the sweet day dawned To wed her gorgeous prince.†   (source)
  • From bed I could hear the tempo build to an ear-shattering climax.†   (source)
  • She was experiencing a climax so intense that her closed eyes glowed, and a brilliant tunnel appeared before her.†   (source)
  • HALE, with a climactic desperation: Woman, before the laws of God we are as swine!†   (source)
  • A few feet away, the storm seemed to be reaching its climax as another sheet of rain broke from the clouds.†   (source)
  • The pre-game ritual climaxed with the Ole Miss players marching along a narrow brick path through the Grove that led to the stadium, known, more than a little hopefully, as "The Walk of Champions."†   (source)
  • Herold would have a front-row seat for the climax of the chase for Lincoln's killer.†   (source)
  • The true climax occurred after the grounds closed, however.†   (source)
  • He kills a giant from the enemy camp in a final climactic battle.†   (source)
  • And I was the one having you know, a climax.†   (source)
  • I never did find out what the stunning climax of the Volleyball Unit was.†   (source)
  • It builds to false climax after false climax, like an expensive fireworks show, and each one is better.†   (source)
  • It had yawned wide open again, and the book rushed toward its climax the way the best ones did, as if on a rocket sled.†   (source)
  • At one point, I arose and danced with her, in unison, round and round through various steps, leading up to the climax.†   (source)
  • In any case, I recall things reaching something of a climax one grey and drizzly afternoon when I was in the billiard room attending to Lord Darlington's sporting trophies.†   (source)
  • At the moment of her climax — which she attempts to disguise as pain — she always says no. In addition, she implies, by her shrinking and clinging, her abject imploring, that she's offering him her body as a kind of payment — something she owes him in return for the money he's spent on her behalf, as in some overdone melodrama featuring evil bankers and virtuous but penniless maidens.†   (source)
  • As the mighty battle came to its climax, Gerald crawled up on a chair and stood on the kitchen table, waving his arms triumphantly.†   (source)
  • We are one long frightening climax.†   (source)
  • This is the climax, Paul thought.†   (source)
  • He sounded faintly regretful, like someone who'd had to put down a good book just before the climax.†   (source)
  • Unusual behavior tends to produce estrangement in others which tends to further the unusual behavior and thus the estrangement in self-stoking cycles until some sort of climax is reached.†   (source)
  • From the wings I heard and watched the pavane of tragedy move steadily toward its climax.†   (source)
  • The start of World War II was not the climax to our life in Ocean Park.†   (source)
  • …dust while Fezzik is off after holocaust mud, this latter, for example, requiring, first, Fezzik's acquiring a holocaust cloak Jo he doesn't burn to death gathering the mud, etc. Well, it's my conviction that this is the same kind of thing as the Wizard of Oz sending Dorothy's friends to the wicked witch's castle; it's got the same feel,' ifyou know what I mean, and I didn't want to risk, when the hook's building to climax, the reader's saying, 'Oh, this is just like the Oz books.'†   (source)
  • Dewey had imagined that with the deaths of Smith and Hickock, he would experience a sense of climax, release, of a design justly completed.†   (source)
  • These words sometimes brought on the climax— joylessly, with loathing, and too soon.†   (source)
  • The elf-maids accelerated to an inhuman speed and the music climaxed in a frenzy of chanted phrases.†   (source)
  • There, at the climax of every show, he sits down in a comfortable chair to think — a chair known, of course, in the literal world of Blue's Clues, as the Thinking Chair.†   (source)
  • The music was still going, reaching some sort of climax, with a lot of thundering guitars.†   (source)
  • They were wondrous clocks made of carved wood, which the Arabs had traded for macaws and which Jose Arcadio Buendia had synchronized with such precision that every half hour the town grew merry with the progressive chords of the same song until it reached the climax of a noontime that was as exact and unanimous as a complete waltz.†   (source)
  • But I hesitated that fraction of a minute, and then the door opened and the other officers came in and we were caught up in the movements bringing us to the climax of the hijacking.†   (source)
  • What you called the climax … how many finalists?†   (source)
  • His activities had a crisp climax when he was arrested for snatching the garbage of J. Edgar Hoover from the rear of the Director's house in northwest Washington and this is what people remembered, what I remembered when I first reheard the name Jesse Detwiler.†   (source)
  • The climax of the game was a rapid shouting of nonsense words accompanied by more rapid twirling: "Solomon rye balaly shoo; yaraba medina hamlet too"—until the last line.†   (source)
  • The climax?†   (source)
  • So Republic Studios hatched a plan to have the three survivors raise their flag as the climax to the movie.†   (source)
  • Intuition warned him that he was drawing close to some immense and inscrutable cosmic climax, and his broad, meaty, towering frame tingled from head to toe at the thought that Yossarian, whoever he would eventually turn out to be, was destined to serve as his nemesis.†   (source)
  • Wright's main character, Reverend Taylor, brings the short story to a climax when he leads a march of blacks and whites through a small town.†   (source)
  • The climax of her life's work!†   (source)
  • Her next climax ripped through him like claws.†   (source)
  • As emphatic a passage as any, this on the slave trade was to have been the ringing climax of all the charges.†   (source)
  • It was as though everything were swirling in some vast, climactic centrifuge of emotion and only when it stopped would she see what it had done to them all and what was then to become of them.†   (source)
  • Don't you think that's really where the climax should come?†   (source)
  • Our age is the climax of centuries of evil.†   (source)
  • The Valentine's Day wedding scheduled for Thursday was to climax a romance that began at a convention of tall people's clubs last year in Kansas City.†   (source)
  • A climactic burst of applause woke Max.†   (source)
  • His climax came on him sudden as a storm, and he filled the girl's mouth with his seed.†   (source)
  • The fire surged into a final climax of power, and Errtu stepped through.†   (source)
  • The climax came when Jesus went up to the Woman at the Well and sang "Hello, I Love You"; somehow it didn't seem to be what either Jesus or Jim Morrison had intended.†   (source)
  • A football rally was reaching its climax, and his guards were laughing.†   (source)
  • The love interest and climax would come when a man and a lady, both strangers, got to talking together on the train going back east.†   (source)
  • The Ottawa ordeal drew toward its end; but the climax was still to come.†   (source)
  • Waiting, trying to imagine a rightful but still happy ending, Paul Berlin found himself pretending, in a wishful sort of way, that before long the war would reach a climax beyond which everything else would seem bland and commonplace.†   (source)
  • All of it builds to the climax and the end.†   (source)
  • Climactic carnage, by poison and by steel-!†   (source)
  • The sound slowly ebbed, then boomed to a fiercer climax, closer.†   (source)
  • Some frightful thing had to climax this accelerating madness.†   (source)
  • Here was the climax of all history, yet he might have been a radio-commentator at a race-track or a boxing-ring.†   (source)
  • Her climax and Metzger's, when it came, coincided with every light in the place, including the TV tube, suddenly going out, dead, black.†   (source)
  • Thank God, I thought, no more annotated climaxes to intrude on my work and composure.†   (source)
  • The lights half dim on the homestead, where VINEY and HELEN going about their business soon find their way of Meanwhile, the railroad sounds off left have mounted in a crescendo to a climax typical of a depot at arrival time, the lights come on stage left, and we see a suggestion of a station.†   (source)
  • [The lights build with the music to the climax, and then blackout at the final exultant note.†   (source)
  • There followed another quarter minute of heavy breathing, climaxed by a racking cough.†   (source)
  • Then suddenly the climax: somersault after somersault, victory-roll after victory-roll, till he was standing, stock still and in sudden silence, face to face with the children.†   (source)
  • Apparently this informal press conference has been in progress for some time, and BRADY is now bringing it to a climax.†   (source)
  • That statement, if it was true, would have been a sufficient reward; my own climax was not important to me.†   (source)
  • Indeed, if after hearing the ecstatic shrieks of climactic conversion against the thumping beat of the melodeon you had stood under the window of a whorehouse and listened to the low decorous voices, you would have been likely to confuse the identities of the two ministries.†   (source)
  • She'd wanted to die, and one night when he'd been kinder than ever before to her, more gentle than anyone had ever been, so that the moment when the climax came was like fire exploding through all the room (it was September; she smelled burning leaves and there was a taste of winter in everything: the time of year when her mother would sit at the window, depressed, looking out without hope as though winter were all that remained for her--and rightly, yes, because all her life she must…†   (source)
  • His constant fear for his family in the event of his own deaith rose to a new climax.†   (source)
  • This car had won for him the race that was the climax of his life.†   (source)
  • Leaping, roaring to climax, then the strength taken from fury, a quietening.†   (source)
  • All of the currents of conflict and disunion, of growth and decline, of strength and weakness, came to a climax in 1850.†   (source)
  • What if there is no climax, even to this amazing life?†   (source)
  • Dear Madame Maria, what an exciting climax for your wonderful party.†   (source)
  • …the rolling of drums and squealing of trumpets, the tramp of marching feet, the grinding of the caterpillars of tanks, the roar of massed planes, the booming of guns — after six days of this, when the great orgasm was quivering to its climax and the general hatred of Eurasia had boiled up into such delirium that if the crowd could have got their hands on the 2,000 Eurasian war-criminals who were to be publicly hanged on the last day of the proceedings, they would unquestionably…   (source)
    climax = time of highest intensity
  • The cut bled, the pain was sharp: my terror had passed its climax; other feelings succeeded.   (source)
    climax = most intense level
  • Of course these objections wrought my eagerness to a climax: gratified it must be, and that without delay; and I told him so.   (source)
  • Then they seemed so familiar with French names and French authors: but my amazement reached its climax when Miss Temple asked Helen if she sometimes snatched a moment to recall the Latin her father had taught her, and taking a book from a shelf, bade her read and construe a page of Virgil; and Helen obeyed, my organ of veneration expanding at every sounding line.   (source)
  • In the stands, many of the spectators rose to their feet as though anticipating a climactic finish.†   (source)
  • His emotions tell him to go back and kill that manager, get his swords out of the trunk, dive in through the little sliding window like a ninja, track him down through the moiling chaos of the microwaved franchise and confront him in a climactic thick-crust apocalypse.†   (source)
  • On the morning of July 6, 1865, the clock began ticking on one of the most dramatic events in the history of Washington, the climactic event of the manhunt.†   (source)
  • As Yossarian stared, the chaplain elevated his gaze toward Yossarian beatifically, pressed his fingers down over his eyeballs in a manner of affliction, peered upward again toward Yossarian searchingly, and bowed his head, concluding what Yossarian took to be a climactic part of the funeral rite.†   (source)
  • In the case of Carrie White, the only witness to any possible prologue to the final climactic events was Margaret White, and she, of course is dead Henry Grayle, principal of Ewen High School, had been expecting him all week, but Chris Hargensen's father didn't show up until Friday-the day after Chris had skipped her detention period with the formidable Miss Desjardin.†   (source)
  • In January, 1851, climaxing a bitter twelve-day struggle among its three distinct parties—Benton Democrats, anti-Benton Democrats and Whigs—the Missouri Legislature on its fortieth ballot elected a Whig.†   (source)
  • Then, at the moment of his own climax, he would slit her throat.†   (source)
  • The argument builds to an ear-shattering climax.†   (source)
  • With a sudden roar, the entire room seemed to erupt in climax.†   (source)
  • I was thankful the next day when Paul's camera ran out of film—before my death-defying climax.†   (source)
  • Now, the final moment, the climax, almost like coming— "And here's what you do, Goober.†   (source)
  • Climax slammed into climax, slapping her up before she was able to float down again.†   (source)
  • Another staggering climax to layer thick over the first.†   (source)
  • There was so much more kick in courting fear, seducing it, watching it swell and climax.†   (source)
  • "You are to be the climax of the broadcast," he said.†   (source)
  • 'I think the climax of the book will be the execution of poor old Edgar Derby,' I said.†   (source)
  • So Tomas's shots were merely the joyful climax to their morbid march.†   (source)
  • Yet he did not denounce the final climax of these policies-Directive 10-289.†   (source)
  • Francisco, it was said, was to be the climax of the d'Anconias.†   (source)
  • THE CLIMAX OF THE D'ANCONIAS The newspaper was the first thing she noticed.†   (source)
  • Your moral code has reached its climax, the blind alley at the end of its course.†   (source)
  • You are now seeing the climax of the creed of the uncaused and unearned.†   (source)
  • I marveled at the grave colloquy: he asked if he was big enough, then if she had "climaxed."†   (source)
  • My partner showed that our experience had reached its climax by getting up abruptly, and my main concern was how to get home quickly.†   (source)
  • The climax is when you are taught the lesson that Punch never learns, and you are caught and charged with murder.†   (source)
  • Williams always scheduled it to occur at the climax of the winter season—the night before the Cotillion's debutante ball.†   (source)
  • Then he told us that the next day would be the stunning climax of the Wrestling and Volleyball Units.†   (source)
  • As the music, enlivened by unscored dissonances, swelled to a raucous climax, she gripped the wooden sides of her chair, closed her eyes.†   (source)
  • Bombs and rockets followed in intensifying numbers until the climax of the show, when an elaborate wire network erected at Festival Hall, on the lakeshore, abruptly flared into a giant explosive portrait of George Washington.†   (source)
  • She let herself go to the encounter, and they wrapped each other in a long embrace; again experiencing an amorous climax, they left together for the lost Eden.†   (source)
  • The climax of the show was the "Attack on a Settler's Cabin," during which Indians who once had slaughtered soldiers and civilians alike staged a mock attack on a cabin full of white settlers, only to be vanquished yet again by Buffalo Bill and a company of cowboys firing blanks.†   (source)
  • Finally, at the climax of a twelve-day manhunt that had gripped the nation, a heavily armed patrol of the Sixteenth New York Cavalry had cornered Lincoln's assassin!†   (source)
  • Physiologically speaking, the male climax was accompanied by a split second entirely devoid of thought.†   (source)
  • The climax of the film was to have Dr. Strange, played by Dave, drag Bond up and down the street while Paul filmed from all angles.†   (source)
  • General William Tecumseh Sherman selected it as the climax for his triumphant march to the sea, bringing seventy thousand troops against Savannah's ten thousand.†   (source)
  • In the aisles of country churches and grand city cathedrals, witnessed by a whole society of approving family and friends, her heroines and heroes reached their innocent climaxes and needed to go no further.†   (source)
  • News of Booth's death traveled across the nation by telegraph, and newspapers rushed to print stories filled with the details of the manhunt's climax at Garrett's farm.†   (source)
  • You've robbed her of the climax!†   (source)
  • A what?" she said, but I didn't even repeat it, because now the song was reaching its climax, which was basically a recitation of every possible kind of vegetable.†   (source)
  • Faces came to him unbidden at the climax of their coupling: Sylvia Pittston, Alice, the woman from Tull, Susan, Aileen, a hundred others.†   (source)
  • Later, she achieved her own solitary climax while viewing the incident as a single closed loop of memory.†   (source)
  • Now that the climax had been revealed, she began to speak more quickly, filling in the rest of the blanks.†   (source)
  • He did not hurt her intentionally, and tonight, for perhaps the tenth or eleventh time since they had been married, she had a climax.†   (source)
  • Pigeon Day is the traditional climax of Family Fest, a weeklong celebration of amusement rides, pie-eating contests ….†   (source)
  • When they finally climaxed together, Theresa threw back her head and cried aloud, not attempting to stifle the sound.†   (source)
  • I could not maintain my footing, and therefore slowly sank to my knees, my husband keeping us joined and fervently pursuing his climax, to where, in a dizzying moment of unbridled sensation I tried to call out to him, only to hear my voice moan through indistinguishable syllables that he clearly took as a signal.†   (source)
  • Suddenly I had chills, the kind you get during the climax of a good ghost story, when you realize the scratching on the roof is the disembodied hand or that the ribbon holds her head on.†   (source)
  • It was the final stage, the climax of the display, longer and more booming than the explosions preceding it.†   (source)
  • He thinks everything sentimental is tender, everything brutal is a slice of realism, and everything that runs into physical violence is a legitimate climax to something that isn't even—"†   (source)
  • When it finally happened, she pressed her fingers hard into his back, but the moment it ended another one started to build again and she began to climax in long sequences, one right after the next.†   (source)
  • He is stymied, though, by the names involved, the players at the climax, he doesn't know their names, faces, numbers, all the things the fans know from childhood to the day they die, and this slows his narrative and muddies it up and he tries to compensate by taking out the baseball.†   (source)
  • Then Archie had provided the climax, the door-slammer—besides, the guys are starting to talk about how Renault was beaten up, how you needed the help of others and couldn't do it yourself ….†   (source)
  • And in the same way that the first attack finished off one period in our lives, so this appalling climax marked the end of another.†   (source)
  • The picture was the climax of Perry's never very earnest spiritual quest, and, ironically, the termination of it; he adjudged his Jesus "a piece of hypocrisy," an attempt to "fool and betray" Willie-Jay, for he was as unconvinced of God as ever.†   (source)
  • For the gunslinger, the tenseness of a coming climax was as unperceivable but as real and as ac-cretive as the fatigue of propelling the handcar.†   (source)
  • (as he writes)" …creating a relaxed atmosphere which will change to one of tension and drama as the climax is approached."†   (source)
  • Then the balcony was nearly empty, the Italian film was approaching a climax; he stumbled down the endless stairs into the street.†   (source)
  • On resuming his seat in Congress, at the climax of debate over Adams's preamble, Jefferson had felt as nearly unsuited for the business at hand as for the stifling city climate.†   (source)
  • He climaxed violently, slapped a hand on the wall, his arm rigid to maintain balance as her legs slid slowly off his hips.†   (source)
  • As a trafficker in climaxes and thrills and characterization and wonderful dialogue and suspense and confrontations, I had outlined the Dresden story many times.†   (source)
  • …fake, but please Chuckie do not abuse my trust, I could fall down dead passing the stuffed mushrooms at dinner and this is the one thing I want you to take and keep and care for, and he went striding through the gate just in time to make his train, which was the evolutionary climax of the whole human endeavor, and he bucketed up to the bar car, filled with people who more or less resembled Charlie, give or take a few years and a few gray hairs and the details of their evilest dreams.†   (source)
  • If any single event climaxed those prewar years, it was, for me at least, the silver wedding anniversary we celebrated in 1940.†   (source)
  • …that went up and up: Twice he had to stop, panting, and held himself back, and then he went again (he was a virgin before me and admitted it i would have believed a lie) and went hard and her breath came in short, digging gasps and then she began to yell and hold at his back, helpless to stop, sweating, the bad taste washed away, every cell seeming to have its own climax, body filled with sunlight, musical notes in her mind, butterflies behind her skull in the cage of her mind.†   (source)
  • She couldn't have stopped him, wouldn't have, even when he held her near to screaming on the edge before shoving her over into another shuddering climax.†   (source)
  • And then finally, your imagination also left out the climax of the evening when the dancing is finished, the judges have stopped whispering among themselves and the Master of Ceremonies collects their score cards and goes onto the stage to announce the winners.†   (source)
  • In the case of Andrea Kolintz (see Appendix II for a fuller history), we are told that, following a spanking for crawling out on the roof, "The medicine cabinet flew open, bottles fell to the floor or seemed to hurl themselves across the bathroom, doors flew open and slammed shut, and, at the climax of the manifestation, a 300-pound stereo cabinet tipped over and records flew all over the living room, dive-bombing the occupants and shattering against the walls."†   (source)
  • These people-she thought-knew, not by means of their reason, but by means of their panic, that this banquet was the ultimate climax and the naked essence of their world.†   (source)
  • And once again he was naked; for at the moment of climax the elastic of the panties had snapped, and the gift - symbol of civilization - lay under his feet, trampled into the desert sand.†   (source)
  • It was delicious to me, as the climax to that evening, to press that body close, soft at this late hour, and to feel the silk of the blouse and the flesh below the silk.†   (source)
  • Past the village flowed the river, like time, like life itself, waiting for the swimmer to come again on his way to the climax of his adventurous life, and to the end for which he had been made.†   (source)
  • His prewar career reached its climax in 1861 when he drafted the ordinance of secession dissolving Mississippi's ties with the Union.†   (source)
  • For if in the 1940s, long before the dawn of our liberation, the ancient chivalry still prevailed and the plastic June Allysons of a boy's dreams were demigoddesses with whom one might at most, to use the sociologists' odious idiom, "pet to climax," I carried self-abnegation to its mad limit and with my beloved Maria did not even try to cop a feel, as they used to say in those days.†   (source)
  • The impeachment of President Andrew Johnson, the event in which the obscure Ross was to play such a dramatic role, was the sensational climax to the bitter struggle between the President, determined to carry out Abraham Lincoln's policies of reconciliation with the defeated South, and the more radical Republican leaders in Congress, who sought to administer the downtrodden Southern states as conquered provinces which had forfeited their rights under the Constitution.†   (source)
  • …homely, its blue industrial windows reflecting the morning light—I shivered with happiness and again with pride at the sheer quality of what I had put into my book by dint of so much solitary work and perspiration and, yes, even occasional freshets of grief; and thinking once more of the as yet unwritten climax, I allowed myself to fantasize a line from the review of a dazzled critic of 1949 or 1950: "The most powerful passage of female interior monologue since Molly Bloom's."†   (source)
  • Meanwhile, as he laid big gleaming lumps of coal upon the wood, he muttered to himself, his mind ordering in a mounting sequence, with balanced and climactic periods, his carefully punctuated rhetoric.†   (source)
  • A hidden orchestra, musical in the trees, greeted them, as they approached, with holy strains: the Baptists, with the simple doctrine of "It's the Old-time Religion"; the Methodists, with "I'll Be Waiting at the River"; the Presbyterians, with "Rock of Ages," the Episcopalians, with "Jesus, Lover of My Soul"; and rising to lyrical climactic passion, the little Jews, with the nobly marching music of "Onward, Christian Soldiers."†   (source)
  • I always use that high style when I'm climaxing an effect.†   (source)
  • Instead he went on to add, and then quite climactically for Clyde at that time, who had been sitting as one in a daze: "I suppose you are ready to go to work now, aren't you?"†   (source)
  • Perhaps it was the climax, and perhaps Maria's suspicion was correct.†   (source)
  • This seemed to Mrs. Hubbard to be a dramatic climax rather than an anticlimax.†   (source)
  • The light was full of action and had a peculiar quality of climax—of splendid finish.†   (source)
  • While the incident is apparently unimportant, it is to Laura the climax of her secret life.†   (source)
  • He could almost hear her voice thrill with excitement as she came to the climax.†   (source)
  • The end of this phase was not sharp, not a climax, like the first.†   (source)
  • These climaxes usually came on the heels of a roaring spree.†   (source)
  • He too gave me a hearty welcome and the awkward comedy came to a beautiful climax.†   (source)
  • To rush my worries to a climax, my mother also became ill.†   (source)
  • That, Peter, is the climax of what you can expect from life.†   (source)
  • The tug of war between the two elderly men reached a climax one winter day at noon.†   (source)
  • In his rages, Gant sometimes directed vast climaxes of abuse at the angel.†   (source)
  • The rest of the evening passed quickly, like a movie film being run off in a rapid blur, rushing to the climax.†   (source)
  • At noon the fever reached its climax.†   (source)
  • Climax.†   (source)
  • It should have been all; that afternoon four years later should have happened the next day, the four years, the interval, mere and-climax: an attenuation and prolongation of a conclusion already ripe to happen, by the War, by a stupid and bloody aberration in the high (and impossible) destiny of the United States, maybe instigated by that family fatality which possessed, along with all circumstance, that curious lack of economy between cause and effect which is always a characteristic…†   (source)
  • The beautiful, noble, glorious Budur, discovering her male affinity beside her, and perceiving that he had already taken her ring, unable either to rouse him or to imagine what he had done to her, and ravaged with love, assailed by the open presence of his flesh, lost all control, and attained to a climax of helpless passion.†   (source)
  • All this happened in about the time that it would take a sixpenny rocket to start off with its fiery swish, bend down from its climax and disperse itself in thunder and coloured stars.†   (source)
  • The long campaign which had begun when Sherman moved southward from above Dalton, four years before, had finally reached its climax, and the state's humiliation was complete.†   (source)
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