Thesaurus / finis
EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB
Et ce jusques au temps & terme de six ans finis & accomplis, cpter du jour que ledit livre sera achev d'imprimer.
Now, indeed, the events were hastening towards the end of the sad drama, the finis poloniae.
FREDERICK CHOPIN AS A MAN AND MUSICIANFREDERICK NIECKS
Je finis la par vous assurer encore, Monsieur, que je suis tout a vous.
HISTORY OF FRIEDRICH II. OF PRUSSIA, VOL. VII. (OF XXI.)THOMAS CARLYLE
Finis exspectandus est in unoquoque hominum; animali ad mutationem promptissmo.
DISCOVERIES MADE UPON MEN AND MATTERBEN JONSON
Lines of Browny's letters were fiery waving ribands about him, while the coldly gracious bow of the Lady wrote Finis.
LORD ORMONT AND HIS AMINTA, COMPLETEGEORGE MEREDITH
And so, having nearly burnt a house down, and perhaps myself with it, I had written "finis" to my four-act play called Judas.
TRAMPING ON LIFEHARRY KEMP
Prudy always added the word "Finis" at the close of her remarks each day, considering it a very good ending.
DOTTY DIMPLE AT HOMESOPHIE MAY
As the affair with Lobkowitz is now also come to a close, we may write Finis, though it far from fine is for me.
BEETHOVEN'S LETTERS 1790-1826, VOLUME 1 OF 2LADY WALLACE
And now the very Schloss is dead; and there is finis to a human dust-vortex, such as is sometimes noisy for a time.
HISTORY OF FRIEDRICH II. OF PRUSSIA, VOL. XII. (OF XXI.)THOMAS CARLYLE
Finis of Ban, some eight months hence, has something of attractive as futility, the curious Death of a Futility.
WORDS RELATED TO FINIS
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