"Finale" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... was at hand for the elephants to rear in a grand finale. An attendant quietly led Jupiter from the ring and to his quarters, Emperor making a circuit of the sawdust arena to cover the going of the other elephant and that there might be no cessation of action in ...
— The Circus Boys on the Flying Rings • Edgar B. P. Darlington
... of the meeting, the last and by far the greatest event. Everybody always waited for it. For was it not the Grand Finale of the ...
— Boy Woodburn - A Story of the Sussex Downs • Alfred Ollivant
... a moment, but quickly recovered. The visit did not dismay him. "Perhaps this is the finale, but why does he come upon me like a cat, with muffled tread? ...
— The Continental Classics, Volume XVIII., Mystery Tales • Various
... astonishing how well it sounded, recited with an air, and to an accompaniment of smiles and waving hands. Little Hilary Jervis, the youngest girl in the school, remarked rhapsodically that it was "Just like a pantomime!" and the finale to the address was so essentially dramatic that her elders were ready ...
— Tom and Some Other Girls - A Public School Story • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
... in E Flat, with its epic opening; the mournful beauty of its funeral march, now sad, calm, solemn like a moonless, starless night, now shining with gleams of hope and faith; its crisp and lively scherzo; and the triumphant finale, a veritable ecstasy of divine joy. My son as an historical scholar found a peculiar attraction in this symphony by reason of its association with Napoleon Buonaparte, for it was inspired by Beethoven's belief—formed in those days when the soldier ...
— War Letters of a Public-School Boy • Henry Paul Mainwaring Jones
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