2 uses
- But Rosamond had registered every look and word, and estimated them as the opening incidents of a preconceived romance—incidents which gather value from the foreseen development and climax.Book 2 — Old and Young (43% in)
- It is still the beginning of the home epic—the gradual conquest or irremediable loss of that complete union which makes the advancing years a climax, and age the harvest of sweet memories in common.Finale (5% in)
There are no more uses of "climax" in Middlemarch.
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