"Final period" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... without uttering a single syllable. Heartfree was, with great difficulty, able to preserve his own senses in such a surprize at such a season. And indeed our good-natured reader will be rather inclined to wish this miserable couple had, by dying in each other's arms, put a final period to their woes, than have survived to taste those bitter moments which were to be their portion, and which the unhappy wife, soon recovering from the short intermission of being, now began to suffer. When she became first mistress ...
— The History of the Life of the Late Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great • Henry Fielding
... without his knowledge. A black fur collected about his teeth; his tongue was covered with Aphthae; and his breath was so foetid, as scarcely to be endured. His strength was almost exhausted; a subsultus tendinum came on; and the final period of his sufferings seemed to be rapidly approaching. As a last, but almost hopeless, effort, I advised the injection of clysters of mephitic air. These soon corrected the foetor of the patient's stools; ...
— Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air • Joseph Priestley
... superseded composition in verse, the greater facility of style naturally led to more detailed narratives, and the sophist who would have been a poet in the time of Callimachus, became a writer of prose romances in the final period of Greek literature. The first ascertained beginning of this style of light reading, which occupies so large a space in the catalogues of modern libraries, was in the time of the Emperor Trajan, when a Syrian ...
— Handbook of Universal Literature - From The Best and Latest Authorities • Anne C. Lynch Botta
... stronger, we begin to maltreat them. So it is, also, with the digestive organs, which we first coddle with pap, then treat awhile with pork and cocktails, and then, perforce, entertain with pap of the second and final period. What correspond, in the field of vision, to pork and cocktails, are the vicious specimens of typography offered on all sides to readers—in books, pamphlets, magazines, and newspapers—typography that is slowly but surely ...
— A Librarian's Open Shelf • Arthur E. Bostwick |
