book end
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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But the letter went on to muse about whether it might be better for Henley and Frey just to “send each other these bitter pages and let the book end on a slightly gentler note?”
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 28, 2024
It’s a fun-house portrait of egotism and a kind of book end to McKinney’s famous early character: He isn’t crushing your head, his head is crushing you.
From New York Times ● May 24, 2022
Some of the modest details in the book end up having larger consequences.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 15, 2020
Some future historian will have to grapple with the reasonable temptation to have the book end in the fall of 2014.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 7, 2014
Wherewith will this book end at last?–with a tear or with an exultation?–
From Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. II A Biography by Jean Paul
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