"Ending" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... have alarmed the President; on the contrary, he sends the paper back to the Secretary, Mr. Seddon, suggesting that he had better correspond with Gov. Vance on the subject, and if military force should be required, he might call in the aid of Brig.-Gen. Hoke, thus ending hopes of a conscription officer here obtaining ...
— A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital • John Beauchamp Jones
... as these reconciled the chief to his disappointment at not learning more about his visitor. The knife Roger had given him was a never-ending source of wonder to the cazique, and those whom he permitted to inspect it. Gold and silver and copper they knew, and also tin, which they used for hardening the copper. But this new metal was altogether strange to ...
— By Right of Conquest - Or, With Cortez in Mexico • G. A. Henty
... sang 'Love! O Love!' for three whole moons, mourning for the dead maiden. And the second sang 'Suitor! Suitor!' wailing six long moons for the unhappy suitor. And the third sang sadly 'Consolation! Consolation!' never ending all his life long for the comfort of the ...
— Finnish Legends for English Children • R. Eivind
... name of all the Gods, this discourse will have a strange ending! Recollect your senses a little better, and think what ...
— Amphitryon • Moliere
... people know it is our last night," said Dalton; "and see what a use they make of us! Denslow's rich wines poured away like water; everything soiled, smeared, and overturned; our entertainment, at first stately and gracious as a queen's drawing-room, ending, with the loss of prestige, in the riot of a bal masque. So fades ambition! But to ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, Number 9, July, 1858 • Various
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