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  • I got to pretend that I was singing, and I got to dance around, and I got to wear a "feather boa" in the grande finale, which I wouldn't have thought anything of because it's part of the show, but Patrick couldn't stop talking about it.†   (source)
  • In the finale, he marries the young, beautiful woman he loves, in front of a crowd of cheering people.†   (source)
  • The finale was supposed to be a couple of hundred-foot-tall Spartan warriors who would crackle to life above the ocean, fight a battle, then explode into a million colors.†   (source)
  • Although he couldn't see what was happening, when he heard the shocking finale, he was thankful he had been spared the visual.†   (source)
  • And now here you are, in a front-row seat for the finale, a special sneak peek into the future.†   (source)
  • At the end, like always, they have a thing they call the "grand finale," when they just go nuts and light off everything at once and it sounds like World War III, whizzing and banging and popping, and there's so much hot stuff falling from the sky you can hear it sizzling in the pond.†   (source)
  • And then the grand finale, the moment they have all been waiting for.†   (source)
  • Save it for your big finale," Cinna instructs me.†   (source)
  • And there was a lot of spluttering and coughing when we attempted Chief Taylor's finale, which was to dump boat, right it again, stow the oars correctly, and then swim the boat back in through the surf and onto the beach.†   (source)
  • For the finale the fair's pyrotechnicians launched five thousand rockets all at once into the black sky over the lake.†   (source)
  • Although he had been tearing along like house afire a few seconds ago, anxious to get Ian, Geoffrey, and the ever-amusing Hezekiah caught in the Bourkas ambush so that the entire party could be transported to the caves behind the face of the idol for the rousing finale, he was suddenly tired.†   (source)
  • I did not sleep at all that night: if the Germans were going to defend the ruins of Warsaw, the street fighting would begin at any moment and I could be killed as the finale to all my earlier tribulations.†   (source)
  • A culinary orchestra tuning up, clattering vigorously toward the finale, a cake pan drumrolling along the floor, hitting the wall with a cymballic crash.†   (source)
  • No. That's the finale.†   (source)
  • It was too late now not to follow this make-believe carpet to its plywood finale, and I did not yet know of any truer destination.†   (source)
  • The finale was of great importance, a source of private joy.†   (source)
  • And the finale--it won't make up for missing the Spec, but it's something.†   (source)
  • The grand finale was the eight of them cluttered onstage dancing.†   (source)
  • Four more changes, four more trips, a grand finale, and this would be over.†   (source)
  • Seabiscuit was screaming to run, and the $10,000 San Juan Capistrano, the stakes finale of the Santa Anita winter meeting, was the perfect spot.†   (source)
  • It was time for the big finale, and I could hardly breathe.†   (source)
  • Maybe it was the architectural perfection of the mountains—the broad set-backs and buttresses of maroon and ochre granite that built, with symphonic intensity, toward the lone soaring finale of their peaks—but despite his weakened state, his lack of food and warm clothing, his poor odds of surviving if he didn't find some of both sometime soon, Mortenson felt strangely content.†   (source)
  • —BELLE BLOCK IN WESLACO, TEXAS, at about the time the Bond Tour was looping back east for its triumphal finale, Ed and Belle Block were packing their belongings for a private journey west.†   (source)
  • DEATH, AT THE HOURE OF CLAYMING, IS MOST FINALE & ETERNALLE ….†   (source)
  • As May wanes, the whole senior class seems locked in a fitful finale, taking the final tally of dismal achievement and stunted opportunity into the hot summer.†   (source)
  • Jake had been a skinny sophomore quarterback playing for Karaway, a much smaller school that for some reason kept the tradition of getting stomped each year in the season finale against Clanton.†   (source)
  • Our season finale was at home against the San Diego Chargers.†   (source)
  • "I feel like a gynecologist looking at this mess," Tradd said as the act continued toward its wild, concupiscent finale.†   (source)
  • The finale of this baby was going to be a thousand on the Richter scale.†   (source)
  • With a measured, orchestral gesture, David seemed to gather the sea into his arms as though preparing for a hideous finale.†   (source)
  • Now, the flickering lights of the finale wash over us, spectacular explosions, muzzle flashes, the steady glow of reactor fires.†   (source)
  • Well, my brother was there when he set off the firecrackers, and he said before the police took him away, he was all "Unless you want to reimburse me, I'll wait for the finale"?†   (source)
  • The grand finale will be a moment straight from the stage, some stunning dramatic conclusion when antagonist and protagonist meet face-to-face, settling their differences once and for all.†   (source)
  • At the finale they actually stood up for him.†   (source)
  • Mr. Landell came and packed up Mrs. Poole's adirondack chair and footstool just before the grand finale, which consisted of three sky rockets bursting simultaneously while the high school majorettes twirled fire batons to "Yankee Doodle.†   (source)
  • My second year was pretty much like my first, with the same finale.†   (source)
  • There'd be time enough to have alterations, from Miss Mattie, too, and transplant things in the yard if it was the season, even start a hook-rug-do a morning glory, at least-even if she'd never really see the grand finale… .†   (source)
  • They said later that Mrs. Merriweather was putting her all into the grand finale, that she had crooned, "Po-ork," with a confidence born of pine trees and butterbeans entering on cue.   (source)
    finale = final part of a performance
  • Maybe they'd pick up now, in time for a heartfelt, plangent, and action-filled finale.†   (source)
  • There must be some conclusion, some finale.†   (source)
  • My treasure-hunt finale was perfect, but isn't now.†   (source)
  • Maybe a bit of flesh-rending for the finale.†   (source)
  • I wish all integration was this easy," quips Cedric, nearing the proof's finale.†   (source)
  • "Looks like the finale," she said blandly.†   (source)
  • If I'm impressed, I'll jump in for the grand finale."†   (source)
  • Did he set up the grand finale as an assisted suicide, had he intended to have Jimmy shoot him because he knew what would happen next and he didn't deign to stick around to watch the results of what he'd done?†   (source)
  • I guess that's why, when he inevitably succumbed to his most shocking injuries, they had accorded him that barbaric tribal finale.†   (source)
  • It was all a bit overwhelming, a definite change from the show of last year, which consisted of one lone ficus tree that the models walked by, posed around, and then pulled to the edge of the stage for the big finale, where they threw its leaves on the audience to symbolize fall.†   (source)
  • For the grand finale, which was always a showcase of evening wear for Christmas balls and dances, the models came out in tight black dresses and spike heels, with their hair pulled straight back and lips bright red, the rest of their faces white and pale as if they were very sick.†   (source)
  • Grover's Theatre is not only staging a lavish production of Aladdin, or The Wonderful Lamp but is adding a grand finale for this night only, during which the cast and audience will rise as one to sing patriotic songs written especially for the occasion.†   (source)
  • It was a fitting finale, and the other children clapped and scooted aside to make a place for her in the center.†   (source)
  • But I knew it was well after midnight, because the fireworks finale had started, even though it was raining.†   (source)
  • While Mina laughed and joked with the others, Max settled back into his chair and mused upon the show's finale.†   (source)
  • The choir comes up again, on Long's cue, and begins singing, "Give Your Problems to God," giving him a precious few minutes to think about his finale.†   (source)
  • Cedric, having been fed a rich brew of Martin Luther King in-tegrationism by Barbara since birth, responds to the story's finale in a heartfelt way.†   (source)
  • She clapped the erasers on the brick wall, on the stone walk and, as a finale, behind her back.†   (source)
  • Do-o-o-own To-o-o-o-own, harmonized the girls in a grand finale.†   (source)
  • It seems that on certain occasions, perhaps at the end of the evening, the spectacle, as a grand finale or perhaps as a matter of sheer deadly forethought toward the retention of supremacy, domination, he would enter the ring with one of the negroes himself.†   (source)
  • So that it seemed as if the slow rhythm of the rising fields had been picked up, stressed, accelerated and broken into the staccato chords of the finale.†   (source)
  • As a finale a series of rockets was set off in rapid succession till everything was a dazzle of quick-tailed shooting stars, fiery comets, and huge chrysanthemums of colored light.†   (source)
  • Just then the girl with the ukelele twanged out a weak finale and the dancers turned to troop in under the flap of the tent.†   (source)
  • The swift finale had been as stunning to him as if lightning had struck near him.†   (source)
  • This wretched note was the finale of Emma's breakfast.†   (source)
  • Oh, yes, they will; only listen to that charming finale.†   (source)
  • _' This English finale passed unnoticed; but all were touched.†   (source)
  • Just as though, 'in the Ninth,' he said 'we need only have the finale,' or 'just the overture' of the Meistersinger."†   (source)
  • In the finale she fell into some of those grotesque attitudes which were at the time popular among the dancers in the theatres up-town, giving to the Bowery public the phantasies of the aristocratic theatre-going public, at reduced rates.†   (source)
  • As the time went on, and the old Jew drove him leisurely but surely along the dark road, he felt more and more eager for the grand finale of this exciting chase after the mysterious Scarlet Pimpernel.†   (source)
  • Then it moved on to the finale, the reprise, with augmented orchestra swelling in massive tones: "O Lord of heaven, hear my prayer."†   (source)
  • …had been duly applauded after her grand ARIA by her numerous admirers; Benjamin Incledon, the acknowledged favourite of the ladies, had received special gracious recognition from the royal box; and now the curtain came down after the glorious finale to the second act, and the audience, which had hung spell-bound on the magic strains of the great maestro, seemed collectively to breathe a long sigh of satisfaction, previous to letting loose its hundreds of waggish and frivolous tongues.†   (source)
  • "Yes, yes," Hans Castorp said in somber gratitude, and put on the finale, where everyone congratulated young Jose for standing up to his officer and thus cutting off his retreat, so that he would now have to desert the colors, just as Carmen had demanded, to his horror, only moments before.†   (source)
  • …her first youth and beauty, and certainly too stout; when she came on in the last scene of the Sonnambula, for instance, in her night-chemise with a lamp in her hand, and had to go out of the window, and pass over the plank of the mill, it was all she could do to squeeze out of the window, and the plank used to bend and creak again under her weight—but how she poured out the finale of the opera! and with what a burst of feeling she rushed into Elvino's arms—almost fit to smother him!†   (source)
  • Finale: already Bathsheba's husband.†   (source)
  • The lady said "Indeed!" yawned, and looked out the cabin window, and finally repeated, for a finale, the remark with which she had begun,—"After all, I think they are better off than they would be to be free."†   (source)
  • FINALE.†   (source)
  • …will be healed and made up for, that all the humiliating absurdity of human contradictions will vanish like a pitiful mirage, like the despicable fabrication of the impotent and infinitely small Euclidian mind of man, that in the world's finale, at the moment of eternal harmony, something so precious will come to pass that it will suffice for all hearts, for the comforting of all resentments, for the atonement of all the crimes of humanity, of all the blood they've shed; that it will…†   (source)
  • …sheriff, representing a borough in three successive parliaments, exertions of loyalty, and dignity of baronet, in the first year of Charles II, with all the Marys and Elizabeths they had married; forming altogether two handsome duodecimo pages, and concluding with the arms and motto:—"Principal seat, Kellynch Hall, in the county of Somerset," and Sir Walter's handwriting again in this finale:— "Heir presumptive, William Walter Elliot, Esq., great grandson of the second Sir Walter."†   (source)
  • He took it up in his hands and looked at it as at a picture, a vision, a vista of past enactments; and then he read it as an unimportant finale to conjecture.†   (source)
  • Her finale and ultimatum of contempt consisted in a very emphatic pronunciation of the word "shiftless;" and by this she characterized all modes of procedure which had not a direct and inevitable relation to accomplishment of some purpose then definitely had in mind.†   (source)
  • Not a soul was in sight, all the hands being employed in the fields; but, as the barn stood conspicuously and plainly square across the road, it was evident that their journey in that direction had reached a decided finale.†   (source)
  • This was the sad finale of every reflection: and Captain Tilney's letter would certainly come in his absence; and Wednesday she was very sure would be wet.†   (source)
  • I sing to the last the equalities modern or old, I sing the endless finales of things, I say Nature continues, glory continues, I praise with electric voice, For I do not see one imperfection in the universe, And I do not see one cause or result lamentable at last in the universe.†   (source)
  • Silence all round marked the termination of his finale.†   (source)
  • 2 Do you suppose I could be content with all if I thought them their own finale?†   (source)
  • The Base of All Metaphysics And now gentlemen, A word I give to remain in your memories and minds, As base and finale too for all metaphysics.†   (source)
  • Here lands female and male, Here the heir-ship and heiress-ship of the world, here the flame of materials, Here spirituality the translatress, the openly-avow'd, The ever-tending, the finale of visible forms, The satisfier, after due long-waiting now advancing, Yes here comes my mistress the soul.†   (source)
  • Now finale to the shore, Now land and life finale and farewell, Now Voyager depart, (much, much for thee is yet in store,) Often enough hast thou adventur'd o'er the seas, Cautiously cruising, studying the charts, Duly again to port and hawser's tie returning; But now obey thy cherish'd secret wish, Embrace thy friends, leave all in order, To port and hawser's tie no more returning, Depart upon thy endless cruise old Sailor.†   (source)
  • Now Finale to the Shore Now finale to the shore, Now land and life finale and farewell, Now Voyager depart, (much, much for thee is yet in store,) Often enough hast thou adventur'd o'er the seas, Cautiously cruising, studying the charts, Duly again to port and hawser's tie returning; But now obey thy cherish'd secret wish, Embrace thy friends, leave all in order, To port and hawser's tie no more returning, Depart upon thy endless cruise old Sailor.†   (source)
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