The menace of the "overdue" and the
finality of "missing" come very quickly to steamers whose life, fed on coals and breathing the black breath of smoke into the air, goes on in disregard of wind and wave.
To be a great lover is to be a great mystic, since in the highest conception of mortal beauty that the mind can form there lies always the unattainable, the unpossessed, suggesting the world of beauty and
finality beyond our mortal reach.
"But even here," he continues, "there is no
finality. Better a thousand times my conclusions should be discredited than that my dead name should lie across the threshold of the temple of Science--a bar to further inquiry."
The
finality in his tone seemed to assure Lady Greystoke that further argument was futile, and so she abandoned the subject.
As he lit a pipe and walked to and fro, he felt that this new state of things lent a certain savour to life - took from it a certain sensation of
finality not altogether agreeable, which his recent great achievements in the financial world seemed to have inspired.
Dairyman Crick's stories often seemed to be ended when they were not really so, and strangers were betrayed into premature interjections of
finality; though old friends knew better.
"No, I shall never try to write a story again," declared Anne, with the hopeless
finality of nineteen when a door is shut in its face.
"Then it must be the whole camp," she said with an air of
finality and with another yawn.
Something in the
finality of her words seemed to him curiously eloquent of her state of mind.
Also, the involved state of my affairs forbids me to write with any
finality concerning those hopes of ultimate bliss upon which, for a long while past, I have permitted myself to feed.
The little emphasis she put upon the last word bespoke the
finality of her decision that the Outlaw of Torn could be no more than friend to her.
"He will be satisfied with wounding you, and there is less danger of a mortal wound." "Pistols," said Tarzan, with
finality.