He had barely gotten himself under a semblance of control, two days later, when Donnelly called him up by telephone to advise him in cautious terms that affairs were nearing a climax and to warn him to make ready.
Since she was to be the flower of the festival, and since her beauty was being saved for the grand climax of the whole affair, she had no idea of sacrificing it.
For a moment the caress seemed real; it was the climax of his hopes, the attainment of his longings.
Working up gradually to the subject of rats, and even more gradually intertwining it, so to speak, with the subject of cats, I brought off in one perfect climax the great Joke.
But when a climax such as this takes place, the right or the wrong thing to be done cannot be settled in a moment.
The quality of affection in Lanier reached its climax in his home life.
Just before the collapse of Russia, brought to a climax by the rise into power of the Bolsheviki, large stores of military supplies from Japan and the United States had been accumulating at the Vladivostok terminus of the Siberian Railroad.
On the one hand, it is a natural and effective climax to all that precedes; it defines the principle on which Paul has acted in the glorying of vv.
At all events it is the inconsistency of this with the worship of the true God that forms the climax of his expostulation--What agreement hath a temple of God with idols?
The climaxof the manifestation of grace has the climax of the manifestation of justice as its inseparable companion.
Hurstwood one morning as a climax to some painful thoughts of her own.
She was very much aware that a climax was pending.
As he passed through the depot proper the strain reached itsclimax and began to wane.
It was in this valley that Richard of Lauretia had conceived the hurtling climax of the war.
The climax was like a knot of silk thrust through with a sword.
Prosper had soared to his zenith; he had his men listening as for the climax of some great epic.
The engineer was relating a story and was just coming to the climax when he suddenly grasped the throttle, and in a moment had "thrown her over," that is, reversed the engine.
I was interested in psychic things," says the woman as she starts to tell her story simply, with a sweep toward the climax that has the ring of the truth of fiction.
The climax of the third act was the great sensational feature of the play.
Too often a play falls to pieces at once after the grand climax is reached, and the final act is obviously tacked on to lengthen it out.
The star of the piece, myself, who has escaped from his enemies barely in time to enter the boat and help win the race, is brought on by the madly cheering college men, and down comes the curtain on a climax that must set any audience wild.
I shall make a spectacular climax on the order of the mechanical horse races you see on the stage.
Let us select the climax of her career and show how she overturned a kingdom, passing but lightly over her early and her later years.
At one of their earliest meetings the climax came.
This was the climax of Houston's life, but the end of it leaves us with something still to say.
This was the climax of his magnificence, for there were gathered all the sovereigns and princes who were his allies and who furnished the levies that swelled his Grand Army to six hundred thousand men.
At the end of the next year, though he was already popular as a novelist, and much sought out by people of distinction, he was at the very climax of his poverty.
The American, was apostrophizing the bird of freedom with the floridity of rhetoric that reached its climax in the "Pogram Defiance.
The climax of the splendid and distinctively Titianesque colour-harmony is the agitated crimson garment of the brown-limbed dancer who, facing his white-robed partner, turns his back to the spectator.
She rose from oneclimax of verbal confusion to another--and finished her visit under the bed, groping inscrutably for the second shoe.
The customary disturbance was rising to its climax as Captain Wragge approached the platform.
The horror of herself with which her own act had inspired her, had risen to its climax when the design of her marriage was achieved.
She rose from one climax of amazement to another, as her husband proceeded with his disclosure.
It was exciting and active, and, oh, what a climax it promised!
Then without an extra phrase, almost without an adjective, he went on quickly piling up the evidence against her until it reached its climax in the proof of the shortness of time that had elapsed between her leaving Eleanor's and the accident.
She could imagine going down on her knees to him, winding herself about him, only she must have the climax ready so that at the same second she would destroy both his love and career.
As a climax to all Rupert's other anxieties came the {127} severe illness of Maurice, who was engaged at the siege of Plymouth.
This was the climax of the long-continued strife between the military and civilian parties; the civilians had triumphed, and the princes now resolved to leave the country.
The disputes came to a climax over a question of supply.
They could not see the really fine points of the forty-part motet: the broad scheme of the whole thing, and the almost Handelian way of massing the various choirs so as to heap climax on climaxuntil a perfectly satisfying finish was reached.
This is the climax I have been working up to, and I call it a fine one; as good as a story to be continued ever ended an instalment with.
In fact, I think it was much surpassed in a climax of dramatic poignancy incident to our excursion to Bishopsthorpe, down the Ouse, on one of the cosey little steamers which ply the stream without unreasonably crowding it against its banks.
And to cap the climax of darkness, Jubal Early's army suddenly withdrew from Lee's lines, swept through the Shenandoah Valley and invaded Maryland and Pennsylvania.
To cap the climax of disasters Lee was preparing to invade the North with his victorious army.
