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end of the line

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the end of the line

the last part of something. He knew he had reached the end of the line when performing started to be more tiring than satisfying. Our friendship reached the end of the road with a nasty fight.

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Second: This arrangement is indispensable for common safety's sake; for were the lower end of the line in any way attached to the boat, and were the whale then to run the line out to the end almost in a single, smoking minute as he sometimes does, he would not stop there, for the doomed boat would infallibly be dragged down after him into the profundity of the sea; and in that case no town-crier would ever find her again. Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context At the end of the line Tarzan could still hear the grumbling of the disgruntled priest. The Return of Tarzan by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context President Lincoln himself fixed the end of the line at Omaha, in Nebraska. Around The World In Eighty Days by Verne, Jules View in context More results

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Second: This arrangement is indispensable for common safety's sake; for were the lower end of the line in any way attached to the boat, and were the whale then to run the line out to the end almost in a single, smoking minute as he sometimes does, he would not stop there, for the doomed boat would infallibly be dragged down after him into the profundity of the sea; and in that case no town-crier would ever find her again.

Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context

At the end of the line Tarzan could still hear the grumbling of the disgruntled priest.

The Return of Tarzan by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context

President Lincoln himself fixed the end of the line at Omaha, in Nebraska.

Around The World In Eighty Days by Verne, Jules View in context

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