end of steel

This reporter knocked at the Wilkins home on Tuesday morning but received neither an answer nor the business end of a shotgun.

I presume the twenty-five or thirty miles at this end is unhealthy, even for natives, but it surely need not be so.

On to Gaba Tepe just in time to see the opening, the climax and the end of the dreaded Turkish counter attack.

He wanted to tell her that if she called her father, it would mean the end of everything for them, but he withheld this.

Under the internal pressure his whiskers stood on end and his face grew red.

A leather swordbelt, gold-embroidered at the edges, carried a long steel-halted rapier in a leather scabbard chaped with steel.