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  • The tasks became progressively harder until they culminated in a successful candidate's induction as thirty-seconddegree Mason.†   (source)
  • Oh I suppose not," she sighed, and she sat down to watch their chess match, which culminated in an exciting checkmate of Ron's, involving a couple of recklessly brave pawns and a very violent bishop.†   (source)
  • The night had been one that he had been looking forward to for so long, the culmination of months—of years—of work.†   (source)
  • We had promised nothing, not even spoken of the future—what we were doing seemed more essentially a culmination of the past, only a culmination of the past.†   (source)
  • Programs scheduled to culminate in two years became outmoded in six months, and crowds of men gathered for them in one place were dispersed to twenty others.†   (source)
  • This is it, she thinks, the culmination of everything.†   (source)
  • Occasionally one of her infatuations would culminate in a lunch or coffee date, an encounter on which she would pin all her hopes but which would lead to nothing.†   (source)
  • That's how Nacha's dislike of Rosaura began, and the rivalry between the sisters was now culminating in this wedding between Rosaura and the man Tita loved.†   (source)
  • This is all culminating with shots of me in the final six dresses, which I'm sure took no time at all to insert in the show.†   (source)
  • But it was not in any way a coincidence that today, the day of culmination of the project, the great day of unveiling, the day that the Heart of Gold was finally to be introduced to a marveling Galaxy, was also a great day of culmination for Zaphod Beeblebrox.†   (source)
  • From this point culminated ward along a graceful arEte of wind-compacted snow that in the South Summit-where I arrived at 11:00 to find a second, even worse bottleneck.†   (source)
  • The clash culminates several weeks after Enrique arrives, when Maraa Isabel telephones collect and her call is rejected because some of the immigrants in the trailer do not know who she is.†   (source)
  • After fifteen minutes of unanswered ringing, she had run through all the possibilities, until they culminated in the inevitable worst possible thing.†   (source)
  • Tyrena pointed out that the timing had been perfect… that the original trauma shock of the death of Old Earth had meant a century of denial, almost as if Earth had never existed, followed by a period of revived interest culminating in the Old Earth nostalgia cults which could now be found on every world in the Web.†   (source)
  • Winter-bourne mixes voyeurism, vicarious thrills, and stiff-necked disapproval, all of which culminate when he finds her with a (male) friend at the Colosseum and chooses to ignore her.†   (source)
  • His first television broadcast, One Hour in Wonderland (1950), culminated in a promotion for the upcoming Disney film Alice in Wonderland.†   (source)
  • The engagement lasted only days and culminated not in a big ceremony with live singers and dancers and merriment all around but with a brief visit by a mullah, a witness, and the scribbling of two signatures across a sheet of paper.†   (source)
  • The culmination of the What Will Sophie Mol Think?†   (source)
  • The conference of 1923 was the culmination of long planning on the part of Lord Darlington; indeed, in retrospect, one can see clearly how his lordship had been moving towards this point from some three years or so before.†   (source)
  • It was the culmination of a spectacular civic campaign that involved every sector of the city in a multitudinous mobilization that many thought worthy of a better cause.†   (source)
  • And at that point, when he wrote that, he knew he had reached some kind of culmination of thought he had been unconsciously striving for over a long period of time.†   (source)
  • The battle culminated one morning before we left for work.†   (source)
  • The principle of the 'inviolability of the individual' culminated in the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen adopted by the French National Assembly in 178V.†   (source)
  • It feels as if this is a culmination of my work with the Varden.†   (source)
  • Thus commencing a cycle that can only culminate in further anger and distress.†   (source)
  • I had found a rewarding volunteer activity helping the local Muscular Dystrophy Association coordinate the year-long activities that culminated in the Jerry Lewis telethon.†   (source)
  • At dawn, Mount Elgon appeared as a slumped pile of gray ridges receding into haze, culminating in a summit with two peaks, which are opposed lips of the eroded cone.†   (source)
  • This was the culminating romantic event of the school year on campus, and it seemed to me in my fantasy mode to be the perfect vehicle for our reconciliation.†   (source)
  • All night there'd been one little problem after another, disasters arising, culminating, and then somehow getting solved, all at whiplash speed.†   (source)
  • It seemed that such heat must culminate in a thunder shower.†   (source)
  • Leo's whole life—his childhood with Tia Callida; his mother's death in that warehouse fire; his years as a foster kid; his months at Camp Half-Blood with Jason and Piper—all of it would culminate tomorrow morning in one final battle.†   (source)
  • We agreed not to worry about it the rest of the weekend, five whole days to spend together, culminating with the July Fourth BBQ and fireworks extravaganza.†   (source)
  • It's a culmination in a way, machines made and shaped outside the little splat of human speech.†   (source)
  • She was also the winner, between 1938 and 1958, of nine Poet of the Year awards, culminating finally in the much-coveted State Poet Laureateship.†   (source)
  • As spring gave way to summer, Spearhead accelerated into the culminating elements of its training agenda.†   (source)
  • But the festivities continued, culminating in dancing.†   (source)
  • Instead, I let my memory drift lazily backward …. to Aphrodite and the fact that Nyx was still blessing her with visions, even though Neferet had spread the word that her visions were false …. to the small, almost imperceptible sense of wrongness that had grown like a fungus around Neferet, until it culminated Sunday night in her undermining the decisions I'd made for the Dark Daughters …. to the nasty scene I'd witnessed between Neferet and …. and ….†   (source)
  • I who am hard and spare and dedicated to a purpose, felt drawn to her irresistibly; and, knowing it could only culminate in death, I turned away from her at once, wondering if when she gazed into my eyes she found them dead and soulless.†   (source)
  • The immense meals in the club, the cockfights, and the afternoons in the brothel all culminated in a clever, although by no means original, plan for making sure that the peasants exercised their right to vote.†   (source)
  • This is the culmination of a semesterlong exercise in ingenuity and teamwork that the MITES do every year.†   (source)
  • Off to the left ran an old wooden colonnade culminating in a stream spouting its medicinal water into a marble bowl.†   (source)
  • Even though I don't like secrets, even though I think that Mia and I have enough secrets between the two of us at this point, and even though the subway is like the culmination of all my fears.†   (source)
  • From there it fell about nine feet, culminating in a perfect hangman's knot, one that Seth had undoubtedly worked on for some time.†   (source)
  • Cesar blamed himself, assuming that his behavior on the night that had culminated in his ride home in the deputy's car, had caused the problem.†   (source)
  • In Ryan's case, two years of absence culminating in a brutal encounter in the desert and the discovery too late that another man had stolen all that was precious to him had gilded his memories of Celine.†   (source)
  • I dove into my experiments and published them quickly, culminating in an article that made the cover of Science magazine, and I received my Ph.D. from Harvard in 2004.†   (source)
  • The eventual recognition of the heroine's superior virtue, her loyalty through the most terrible trials, even uncontracted as she is, and the downfall of her rival, culminating in the longawaited clientage contract and ten minutes of triumphant singing and dancing, the last of eleven such interludes over four separate episodes.†   (source)
  • Thus Einstein published his theories of relativity in 1905-15, forty years before his work culminated in the end of a war, the start of an age, and the beginnings of a crisis.†   (source)
  • She appreciated her little joke more than I did, implying that I would be let down by the culmination of my forthcoming marriage, the anticipated union of which, only here in your pages, can I admit my honest excitement.†   (source)
  • What happened here tonight is the culmination of the murders of two friends of mine in Enskede, Dag Svensson and Mia Johansson.†   (source)
  • But there now followed a chain of events that were to culminate in a serious rift with both Vergennes and Franklin.†   (source)
  • ' " With difficulty, the Captain persuaded his friend to let him drive and then began their hair-raising trip from Le Havre to Paris, culminating in a cross-city ride at the busiest time of the afternoon.†   (source)
  • The culmination of everything we've worked toward.†   (source)
  • What would be gained if we were to build it up again so exactly that it culminated in another Tribulation?†   (source)
  • The sensation intensified for what seemed to be a full minute, culminating in a gagging wave of nausea.†   (source)
  • More important, I had played with Peter, and our football team was on a run that culminated with our being crowned as state champions—the first time in school history.†   (source)
  • I get the distinct impression that this is the culmination of several battles between them.†   (source)
  • Love, regrets, desires, wishes had all culminated to whirl inside her until she'd clung to him.†   (source)
  • The anxiety was fed by xenophobia and anti-Semitism and culminated in the laws sharply reducing immigration after World War I. Harvard University became alarmed at the rising number of Jewish admissions (6 percent in 1908, but 22 percent by 1922) and moved to limit it.†   (source)
  • The culmination of the season was the Governor's Cup stakes.†   (source)
  • Each seemed to be about seventy years old, with a narrow pink face culminating imperfectly in an unimpressive jaw hidden by a goatish beard and a dandyish waxed mustache twisted at each end, like the king's, into opposing points.†   (source)
  • But absorbed in the culmination of his life's labors, he had attained a level of calm concentration.†   (source)
  • This all seemed to culminate one night with my most vivid memory as a child.†   (source)
  • That had led to various positions in the IT field and a pretty steady corporate advance culminating in a senior manager position at AT&T in Boston.†   (source)
  • The third act takes place in the court of Faggio, and is spent murdering Pasquale, as the culmination of a coup stirred up by Ercole's agents.†   (source)
  • Her submissive labor, which she had executed patiently, like practically all dutiful Polish daughters trapped in a tradition of absolute obeisance to Daddy-hood, culminated one week in the winter of 1938 with the typing and editing of the manuscript of Poland's Jewish Problem: Does National Socialism Have the Answer?†   (source)
  • So I began walking back, reflecting on the possible permutations of people and events leading up to and culminating in the killings.†   (source)
  • This country has known no greater crisis than that which culminated in the fratricidal war between North and South in 1861.†   (source)
  • Those are the antecedents, and the culmination.   (source)
  • This would always culminate with the master's arms going around White Fang's neck and shoulders while the latter crooned and growled his love-song.   (source)
  • The day before the fight culminated, Ruth had been smoking in her bedroom, leaning out the window.†   (source)
  • Their voices were full of song, culminating in a roaring rendition of "Deutschland über Alles."†   (source)
  • Today's fast food industry is the culmination of those larger social and economic trends.†   (source)
  • I thought it must be some kind of culminating prank, the senior class leaving Devon with a flourish.†   (source)
  • The culmination, however, was something no one expected.†   (source)
  • Everybody said that the dream culminated in stuff.†   (source)
  • The long layoff from racing, culminating in a week stuck itching in the barn, took its toll.†   (source)
  • The bitterness that had racked Lydia Sessions's heart for more than forty-eight hours culminated.†   (source)
  • All the mysteries of the family reach their culmination in the final passion of abandonment.†   (source)
  • For vampires, physical love culminates and is satisfied in one thing, the kill.†   (source)
  • The fiery reentry culminating in the plasma explosion of the divorce.†   (source)
  • And he told me, and I have to say, Alaska left us with the crown jewel of pranks, the Mona Lisa of high-school hilarity, the culmination of generations of Culver Creek pranking.†   (source)
  • What was more, he was now dreaming about walking down the corridor towards the entrance to the Department of Mysteries almost every night, dreams which always culminated in him standing longingly in front of the plain black door.†   (source)
  • Haltingly, and with many pauses while she attempted to control her crying, Leanne told Professor McGonagall how Katie had gone to the bathroom in the Three Broomsticks and returned holding the unmarked package, how Katie had seemed a little odd, and how they had argued about the advisability of agreeing to deliver unknown objects, the argument culminating in the tussle over the parcel, which tore open.†   (source)
  • A number of small scuffles broke out in the corridors, culminating in a nasty incident in which a Gryffindor fourth year and a Slytherin sixth year ended up in the hospital wing with leeks sprouting out of their ears.†   (source)
  • As Christianity spread, the shrine got bigger, layer upon layer, culminating in this colossal basilica.†   (source)
  • In fact, it occurred to me that the next pregnancy might be the final stage, the culmination or the reward, for learning what Jess Clark had to teach, a natural outgrowth of some kind of rightness of outlook that I hadn't achieved yet.†   (source)
  • His works, culminating in the overwrought and infamous, if not always successful, Lady Chatterley's Lover, opened the way for more sexual directness.†   (source)
  • To this date, they have been a force for moderation, an ally of the Stables, because it is their perception that such reconstruction and retrieval projects as the Old Earth experiment are necessary to the culmination of the UI.†   (source)
  • Over the previous three weeks, the temperature had climbed four and a half degrees, setting in motion that course of natural and human events which culminates in hints of mint in cucumber soups, lavender blouses at elevator doors, and midday deliveries of tiger lilies two feet tall.†   (source)
  • Wilton notified the Adventure Consultants office in New Zealand, and a flurry of faxes went out to friends and families around the world, announcing the expedition's triumphant culmination.†   (source)
  • The harmony they had longed for reached its culmination when they least expected it, at a gala dinner at which a delicious food was served that Fermina Daza could not identify.†   (source)
  • Let's look at the pattern that's set up: child wants to supplantfather in his mother's affections, child desperately wants mother's approval and love, child engages in highly secretive behavior involving frenetic, rhythmic activity that culminates in transporting loss of consciousness.†   (source)
  • Florentino Ariza read it, his heart wild with joy as if this were the culmination of his first adventure, and he did not sleep a wink that night as he tossed and turned with impatience.†   (source)
  • Nearing Himmel Street, in a hurry of thoughts, a culmination of misery swept over her—the failed recital of The Grave Digger's Handbook, the demolition of her family, her nightmares, the humiliation of the day—and she crouched in the gutter and wept.†   (source)
  • Afterward, basking in his glory, he would stand on the balcony and savor the culmination of the Illuminati triumph …. a revenge desired by so many for so long.†   (source)
  • But in any case, it was a Saturday of passion, which culminated in a new crisis of fever when he thought the moment had come for the newlyweds to flee in secret through a false door to give themselves over to the delights of their first night.†   (source)
  • Hemingway captures that damage three times over: once in the Nick Adams stories culminating in "Big Two-Hearted River" (1925), where Nick goes off alone to Michigan's then remote Upper Peninsula on a fishing trip to repair his broken psyche after the horrors of his war experience; a second in Jake Barnes's war wound and the fractured festivities in Pamplona; and a third in Lieutenant Frederic Henry's separate peace, broken by his lover's death in childbirth in A Farewell to Arms.†   (source)
  • His friends brought him the most delicate vases they had come across in their travels through the world, and they organized special parties so that he might at last achieve the culmination of his dream.†   (source)
  • Above those empty levels rose tier upon tier of interlocking buildings until they culminated in a giant dome of gold and white.†   (source)
  • His controversial rivalry with Triple Crown winner War Admiral culminated in a spectacular match race that is still widely regarded as the greatest horse race ever run.†   (source)
  • His efforts culminated when he seemed to take her from the chamber to a dungeon cell elsewhere in the citadel, where she saw what appeared to be Eragon and Saphira bound in chains.†   (source)
  • It was the culmination of four weeks of shocks in the Moscote household because little Remedios had reached puberty before getting over the habits of childhood.†   (source)
  • The culmination of all those badminton matches and volleyball serves, of laps run around the gym in circles.†   (source)
  • Since the fall, though, when Rest Assured began to struggle, things had been getting worse, culminating in the months since Christmas, when a bunch of loans had come due.†   (source)
  • Her only child's wedding—the culmination of all she had been, thought or done in this world—had dragged from her energy and stamina even she did not know she possessed.†   (source)
  • Although he sometimes felt the temptation and although Nigromanta herself might have seemed to him as the natural culmination of a shared nostalgia, he did not go to bed with her.†   (source)
  • "Yet daringly do the vile incendiaries keep up in Bache's paper the most wicked and base, violent and culminating abuse," she wrote another day, sure that "nothing will have effect until Congress passes a Sedition Bill."†   (source)
  • He gave her a number of complex poses that had her contort every foot of her sinuous length in fantastic ways, culminating in a series of aerial acrobatics the likes of which Eragon had never seen before.†   (source)
  • I didn't reflect on it at the time—indeed, not until many years later—but what I was experiencing was the irreducibly real Japan: the Japan that had existed before the militaristic epoch that culminated in the Pacific War, and that will continue into the next millennium.†   (source)
  • We'll be the same, we, who are so modern, the culmination of all human graces, we, who wear glass crystals in frames resting in front of our eyes, whose teeth are inlaid with gold and silver, whose skin is painted with pictures of beasts and ships, who wear coats of animal skin and fleece, and walk about with our feet wrapped in the scraped hide of cows; we, who blow ourselves up with grenades and bombs, and carry lit tubes of burning leaves so that we may inhale the smoke, who imbibe…†   (source)
  • It was as though she held her breath and could not let it go until the energy and busyness culminated in a beauty that would dazzle him.†   (source)
  • She did not understand the state of civil war, nor did she realize that war is the soldiers' work of art, the culmination of all their training, the gold medal of their profession.†   (source)
  • The wedding culminated in a spectacular party, with five hundred guests in evening dress who invaded the big house on the corner, enlivened by an orchestra of hired musicians, with a scandalous number of whole steers grilled with herbs, fresh seafood, Baltic caviar, Norwegian salmon, birds stuffed with truffles, a torrent of exotic liquors, a flood of champagne, and an extravagance of desserts: ladyfingers, millefeuilles, eclairs, sugar cookies, huge glass goblets of glazed fruits,…†   (source)
  • The three years she had spent in college, a junior year in France, and being the granddaughter of the eminent Dr. Foster should have culminated in something more elegant than the two uniforms that hung on Miss Graham's basement door.†   (source)
  • All this culminating in ….†   (source)
  • He was in the Pocket even then, in a way, but did not think along the systems track to the culmination of his tedious little labors.†   (source)
  • But that heroic gesture was just one more proof of how poorly Fernanda knew not only the character of her husband but the character of a community that had nothing to do with that of her parents, for everyone who saw the trunks pass by said that it was the natural culmination of a story whose intimacies were known to everyone, and Aureliano Segundo celebrated the freedom he had received with a party that lasted for three days.†   (source)
  • Now he sees a car stopped for a light and he walks on over, sliding his feet the way he does when things get culminated on him.†   (source)
  • This was a very expensive effort that culminated in a sixty-second commercial shot in the Jornada del Muerto in remotest New Mexico.†   (source)
  • Bridges, tunnels, scows, tugs, graving docks, container ships, all the great works of transport, trade and linkage were directed in the end to this culminating structure.†   (source)
  • Everything in your computer, the plastic, silicon and mylar, every logical operation and processing function, the memory, the hardware, the software, the ones and zeroes, the triads inside the pixels that form the on-screen image—it all culminates here.†   (source)
  • Thus she was in the position of having drawn upon her like flooding sunrise itself the whole culminating design of his hate-drenched philosophy when he made her take down in Gabelsberger shorthand, then transcribe on the typewriter in Polish and German, the entire text of his chef d'oeuvre: Poland's Jewish Problem, etc. She recalled the hectic excitement which from time to time stole into his voice as, champing on a cigar, he paced the damp and smoky study in the house, and she…†   (source)
  • The Hayes-Tilden Presidential contest of 1876 had been a bitter struggle, apparently culminating in a close electoral-vote victory for the Democrat Tilden.†   (source)
  • Thus Sophie came to spend her ten days under the Commandant's roof—a period culminating in that hectic, anxiety-drenched day which she remembered in such detail and which I have already described: a day when her feckless and flat-footed attempt at seducing Floss yielded not the possibility of freedom for Jan but only the bitterly wounding yet sweetly desirable promise of seeing her child in the flesh.†   (source)
  • A few years before, the demon had felt a surge of power on the material plane that it believed would culminate a quest it had undertaken a millenium ago.†   (source)
  • Those conspiratorial lunches of the patrones would culminate in either Romanesque debauchery or cockfights, and by evening the men would take the Red Lantern by storm, where twelve-year-old prostitutes and Carmelo, the only homosexual in the brothel and the town, would dance to the strains of an antediluvian Victrola beneath the watchful eye of Sofia, who was too old to go chasing around herself, although she still had the energy to run her business with an iron hand and keep the…†   (source)
  • Such were the consequences of the epidemic at its culminating point.†   (source)
  • Afternoon naps were a custom of the country and never were they so necessary as on the all-day parties, beginning early in the morning and culminating in a ball.†   (source)
  • The second act concerns the love affair between young George Gibbs and little Emily Webb, and thus culminates in a moving wedding scene, which contains all those elements of poignant sorrow and abundant happiness that make for solemnity and impressiveness.†   (source)
  • Virtue is but the pedagogical prelude to the culminating insight, which goes beyond all pairs of opposites.†   (source)
  • The Easter party at Brideshead was a bitter time, culminating in a small but unforgettably painful incident.†   (source)
  • The Lemesurier Inheritance I In company with Poirot, I have investigated many strange cases, but none, I think, to compare with that extraordinary series of events which held our interest over a period of many years, and which culminated in the ultimate problem brought to Poirot to solve.†   (source)
  • All this at the culminating moment of Not a Sparrow, that all-star, thrilling drama of pathos and beauty that Mr. Leadbetter had been looking forward to seeing for a whole week.†   (source)
  • I expected something of a culmination.†   (source)
  • And, as it so happens, what has yet to lie recorded before coming to the culmination, during the period when the plague was gathering all its forces to fling them at the town and lay it waste, is the long, heartrendingly monotonous struggle put up by some obstinate people like Rambert to recover their lost happiness and to balk the plague of that part of themselves which they were ready to defend in the last ditch.†   (source)
  • The whole hero-life is shown to have been a pageant of marvels with the great central adventure as its culmination.†   (source)
  • There follow the "Chapter of Not Letting the Soul of a Man Be Taken from Him in the Underworld" and the "Chapter of Drinking Water in the Underworld and of Not Being Burnt by Fire," and then we come to the great culmination—the "Chapter of Coming Forth by Day in the Underworld," wherein the soul and the universal being are known to be one: I am Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow, and I have the power to be born a second time; I am the divine hidden Soul who createth the gods, and who…†   (source)
  • It was the farthest point of navigation and the culminating point of my experience.†   (source)
  • And it was in her mouth that this culminated.†   (source)
  • And then came the culminating evidence: the discovery of the field-glasses on the prisoner.†   (source)
  • It seemed as if this paltry sum would delay the desired culmination longer than all the rest had.†   (source)
  • You have gone from corruption to corruption, and now you have culminated in crime.†   (source)
  • Professor Godbole's conversations frequently culminated in a cow.†   (source)
  • When he had said it, he took a culminating pinch of snuff, and put his box in his pocket.†   (source)
  • It was a culmination of the mood he had been in all the day.†   (source)
  • The moral hesitation which decided the fate of battles was evidently culminating in a panic.†   (source)
  • Those are the antecedents, and the culmination.†   (source)
  • Wellington held the village and the culminating plain; Ney had only the crest and the slope.†   (source)
  • The next morning brought the culminating stroke; she had been expecting it long.†   (source)
  • Which of us can point out and say that was the culmination—that was the summit of human joy?†   (source)
  • It was this culminating point that Jean Valjean had reached.†   (source)
  • The culminating point, which is BOOK THIRD.†   (source)
  • The curate, I found, was quite incapable of discussion; this new and culminating atrocity had robbed him of all vestiges of reason or forethought.†   (source)
  • The storm culminated in one matchless effort that seemed likely to tear the island to pieces, burn it up, drown it to the tree-tops, blow it away, and deafen every creature in it, all at one and the same moment.†   (source)
  • And, finally, I am convinced that he is the perfect type of the primitive man, born a thousand years or generations too late and an anachronism in this culminating century of civilization.†   (source)
  • Not only because, in the hours when he most entirely mistrusted her, he had rarely imagined such a culmination of evil, but because, even when he did imagine that offence, it remained vague, uncertain, was not clothed in the particular horror which had escaped with the words "perhaps two or three times," was not armed with that specific cruelty, as different from anything that he had known as a new malady by which one is attacked for the first time.†   (source)
  • It was the very essence of the unknown; it was the sum of the terrors of the unknown, the one culminating and unthinkable catastrophe that could happen to him, about which he knew nothing and about which he feared everything.†   (source)
  • This orgy of sociability culminated in a gigantic party at the Nassau Inn, where punch was dispensed from immense bowls, and the whole down-stairs became a delirious, circulating, shouting pattern of faces and voices.†   (source)
  • A drive in the hills with Mr. Eager and Miss Bartlett--even if culminating in a residential tea-party--was no longer the greatest of them.†   (source)
  • All our intimacy culminates then.†   (source)
  • It is no better to-day and never will be any better: our very peasants have something morally hardier in them that culminates occasionally in a Bunyan, a Burns, or a Carlyle.†   (source)
  • He had had no love affair since that which culminated in his marriage, and since then time and the world had taught him how raw and erroneous was his original judgment.†   (source)
  • Duane could not see any other culmination of this series of events than a meeting between Knell and himself.†   (source)
  • He was caught in the same dilemma— or better, its opposite—that governed his conversations with Clavdia when held in the presence of others, even if only before her lord and master; indeed, thanks to the satisfaction he had received from the latter, his dilemma had culminated in a formal double bind.†   (source)
  • When, at the culmination of this phase of his passion, Dale, who had never known the touch of a woman's lips, suddenly yielded to the illusion of Helen Rayner's kisses, he found himself quite mad, filled with rapture and despair, loving her as he hated himself.†   (source)
  • At first he was thankful the night had covered up the scene before his eyes, and then to know of it and yet to have seen and heard nothing appeared somehow the culminating point of an awful misfortune.†   (source)
  • The funicular was above the highest houses of the shore; on both sides a tangle of foliage and flowers culminated at intervals in masses of color.†   (source)
  • Into the manhood of the race: for I, for my own part, cannot think that these latter days of weak experiment, fragmentary theory, and mutual discord are indeed man's culminating time!†   (source)
  • The old fancy which had led on to the culminating vision of the bishopric had not been an ethical or theological enthusiasm at all, but a mundane ambition masquerading in a surplice.†   (source)
  • She had not been in Paris for some months; the horrors and bloodshed of the Reign of Terror, culminating in the September massacres, had only come across the Channel to her as a faint echo.†   (source)
  • But the drama culminated unforeseen and violent on their return, when I was impelled by my miserable flesh that still lives…Ah! what misery, what wretchedness is that of the man who is alone and disdains debasing liaisons!†   (source)
  • THE culmination of this meeting was but the prelude, as both Clyde and Roberta realized, to a series of contacts and rejoicings which were to extend over an indefinite period.†   (source)
  • You may be quite sure that he reached the culminating point of his happiness three days before he saw the New World with his actual eyes, when his mutinous sailors wanted to tack about, and return to Europe!†   (source)
  • It was as though all the weariness of the past months had culminated in the vacuity of that interminable evening.†   (source)
  • There was no one whom she liked as much, no one whom she trusted as completely, and the culminating "lark" of the whole delightful adventure of engagement and marriage was to be off with him alone on a journey, like a grownup person, like a "married woman," in fact.†   (source)
  • "It's the culmination of everything.†   (source)
  • It culminated in a hurried outbreak of almost intolerably excessive shrieking, which stopped short, leaving us stiffened in a variety of silly attitudes, and obstinately listening to the nearly as appalling and excessive silence.†   (source)
  • It is the race heritage, the sadness which has made the race sober-minded, clean-lived and fanatically moral, and which, in this latter connection, has culminated among the English in the Reformed Church and Mrs. Grundy.†   (source)
  • White Fang's snarling began with the movement, and increased as the movement approached its culmination.†   (source)
  • [his anguish culminating] Ow, chock it.†   (source)
  • At the moment of greatest brilliance the darkness leaped back with a culminating crash, and he vanished before my dazzled eyes as utterly as though he had been blown to atoms.†   (source)
  • But there had been, near the end, so much dramatic tragedy, culminating in the arabesque nightmare of his three weeks' spree, that he was emotionally worn out.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Peniston, however, was at the moment inaccessible to remonstrance: since early morning she had been shut up with her maid, going over her furs, a process which formed the culminating episode in the drama of household renovation.†   (source)
  • She seemed suddenly to have lost all faculty even for suffering: her heart, her nerves, her brain seemed to have become numb after all these hours of ceaseless anguish, culminating in this awful despair.†   (source)
  • Between the two, the waters of the bay were furrowed by a light coming and going of pleasure-craft, through which, just at the culminating moment of luncheon, the majestic advance of a great steam-yacht drew the company's attention from the peas.†   (source)
  • The hand continued slowly to descend, while he crouched beneath it, eyeing it malignantly, his snarl growing shorter and shorter as, with quickening breath, it approached its culmination.†   (source)
  • And then her own work in the matter, which should have culminated at one o'clock in Lord Grenville's dining-room, when the relentless agent of the French Government would finally learn who was this mysterious Scarlet Pimpernel, who so openly defied an army of spies and placed himself so boldly, and for mere sport, on the side of the enemies of France.†   (source)
  • I noted them walking the deck together one morning, and I likened them to the extreme ends of the human ladder of evolution—the one the culmination of all savagery, the other the finished product of the finest civilization.†   (source)
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