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the result of some preceding events

Rappaccini! and is THIS the upshot of your experiment!
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Rappaccini's Daughter

The upshot of the petition was waited for in Weatherbury with solicitous interest.
Thomas Hardy -- Far from the Madding Crowd
The upshot of this was also nothing.
Marcus Luttrell -- Lone Survivor
The upshot is, we might as well glow in the dark in terms of staying inconspicuous.
James Patterson -- The Angel Experiment
The upshot of the affair was that she accompanied me next morning.
Jack London -- Sea Wolf
The upshot was that they had exchanged viewpoints like debaters.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Tender is the Night
The upshot is that Bangladesh today has a significant civil society and a huge garment industry full of women workers who power a dynamic export sector.
Nicholas D. Kristof -- Half the Sky
The upshot wasn't all Farmer thought it should be.
Tracy Kidder -- Mountains Beyond Mountains
I'm afraid he got a bit huffed, and the upshot was that he laughed too much and got excited, and asked the lady—well, you know.
T. H. White -- The Once and Future King
They made them gifts, and they talked; and the upshot of it was that John Toomey had bought land from the Indians.
Louis L'Amour -- The Broken Gun
But the upshot of it was that they decided to keep on ahead awhile, anyway.
James Agee -- A Death in the Family
The upshot of this was that the change was eventually effected; not without great gloom on the part of Carrie.
Theodore Dreiser -- Sister Carrie
That was the entire upshot of yesterday's meeting," Dexter said.
Sarah Dessen -- This Lullaby
The upshot of it was that all the definite claims of the people had to be granted.
William Morris -- News from Nowhere
Gow's Watch Lurgan Sahib did not use as direct speech, but his advice tallied with Mahbub's; and the upshot was good for Kim.
Rudyard Kipling -- Kim
But the real upshot of the business was that the number of riddles to be solved was augmented.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- The Idiot
The upshot of the matter was that the Principal went to Paul's father, and Paul was taken out of school and put to work.
Willa Cather -- Paul's Case
The upshot is that between the operation and the uncontrolled eating Fred has become enormously fat.
Gary Paulsen -- Woodsong
He was mighty learned about the case, to me; but the upshot of his opinion was, that the carrier was making his last journey rather fast.
Charles Dickens -- David Copperfield
There I found Conseil, who wanted to know the upshot of my interview with the captain.
Jules Verne -- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

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