"In the end" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... coat and then she did spank him for good. Meanwhile the bell rang for lunch. She put him on a chair in the end of ...
— A Modern Cinderella • Amanda M. Douglas
... certain kinds of songs that she also surveyed the field of song recital from a mountain top.... But such a singer as Mme. Sembrich, who made her appeal through the expression of the milder emotions, who never, indeed, attempted to touch dramatic depths, even style, in the end, will not assist. Magnificent Lilli Lehmann might make a certain effect in Gotterdammerung so long as she had a leg to stand on or a note to croak, but an adequate delivery of Der Nussbaum or Wie Melodien ...
— The Merry-Go-Round • Carl Van Vechten
... to its faults that we try secretly to hide them even from our own eyes, mostly with success; and where success is not perfect, we make a second effort to hide the imperfection. Repeated efforts of this kind, from which we but half turn away, are crowned in the end, and we soon forget what successful hypocrites we have been. Our numerous passions, the complexities of our desires, the tenacity of their grasp, and the pleasant gentleness of its touch explain an infinity of temptations followed ...
— Moral Principles and Medical Practice - The Basis of Medical Jurisprudence • Charles Coppens
... manner. The Trinity House surveyor had been down and reported, and Mendarva had the contract for some immediate repairs. "But 'tis patching an old kettle, my son. The foundations be clamped down to the rock, and the clamps have worked loose. The whole thing'll have to come down in the end; ...
— The Ship of Stars • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... when clouds were thick over his own head, and the ground beneath his feet seemed crumbling away, he could still bear witness to an eternal light behind the cloud, and tell others that there is solid ground to be reached in the end by the weary feet of all who will wait to be strong. Let him speak his ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 9, No. 54, April, 1862 • Various
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