They turned their faces toward the city and walked quietly, each reflecting silently upon the struggle that had been enacted and the denouement which was yet to come.
The denouementat the little church of San Rafael, when the soldiers surprise the Penitentes at mass in the early dawn of their fete day, appeals strongly to the dramatizer.
To their besotted perceptions this scene was like a play in a Bowery theater, and now that the dramatic denouementhad come, they lost their interest and sauntered away singly or in little groups.
This grotesque denouement of an undertaking planned and executed in the loftiest frame of religious enthusiasm, shook the very foundation of his faith.
The unexpected and startling denouement wrought consternation in the shop, and the opinion was given freely that Buck must be "off.
I might have approached the denouement more circumspectly; I might have prepared him for things as they actually had been, instead of allowing him, by my extreme candor, to suppose that matters were worse than they really were.
Charlotte, her heart bounding at the thought of a denouementto her own romance.
I guessed that I was near the denouement of the romance, but I was very far from congratulating myself, for I did not know whether the denouement would prove agreeable or not.
I was not long in following him, and the reader will soon know the nature of a denouement so long and so ardently desired; in the mean time I beg to wish him as happy a night as the one which was then awaiting me.
As we were getting near Rome we were compelled to let the curtain fall before the denouement of the drama which we had performed to the complete satisfaction of the actors.
The plot is new and sparkling, and the story is carried to its denouement with an ingenuity and brightness of manner that makes it impossible to lay the volume down until completed.
An extremely interesting story, * * * the development of the plot is kept well in hand, and the denouement is as dramatic as any that could be desired.
Rattenberg was, in 1651, the scene of a tragic event, sad as the denouement of many a fiction.
Any one who watched him might have observed a twinkle of his eye, which portended some unusual denouement to the yearly journey.
After that truly dramatic scene, during which I could guess that the denouement of the play was near at hand, I went to my charming countess, taking care to change my gondola three times--a necessary precaution to baffle spies.
The moment I am dressed, I will treat you to an amusing denouement of the comedy.
One of the signs of Scott's unique genius was the way in which he invented and carried to perfection the method of moving towards the denouement by dialogue as much as by narrative.
Here was a fresh subject of fear and surprise for Cuchillo who, gliding like a serpent along the rocks, hid himself, as we have seen, amid the leaves of the water lilies, to await the denouement of this strange adventure.
As we approached the denouement of this exciting affair, my heart was in my throat.
Could I bring it to any denouement whatever, either sooner or later?
To how many questions did this unexpected denouement give rise?
A singular denouement is made this morning, which appeals strongly to my feelings.
At thedenouement of the sheriff's story there should have been the barking of two guns and a film of gunpowder smoke should have gone tangling to the ceiling.
Then, when the denouement came, those seeds might blossom overnight into poison flowers.
And by similar personal repugnances reacting on egoism is his behavior in the denouement to be accounted for, and in this light becomes logically credible and clearly understood.
When overcome with fatigue, they slept for an hour or two in the armchairs, to awaken with a start, under the influence of the sinister denouement of some nightmare.
Throughout the evening, while the guests played at dominoes, the old mercer watched the couple so tenderly, that they guessed the comedy had succeeded, and that the denouement was at hand.
Such a denouement appeared to them horribly and cruelly ridiculous.
The Messianic end was to Paul's Jewish thought the denouement of antecedent history.
With the same docility these high sharers of our theological inquiries still wait to see the end of the Lord and to take their part in the denouement of the time-drama, in the revelation of the sons of God.
The two first acts were always applauded, but the Red Sea, instead of aiding, completely marred the denouement of the third.
My seven were those of the beginning, Rousseau took the seven dealing with the denouement and de Leuven the middle seven.
With a fair certainty of what the denouement would be, I kept on a wrapper and lay down on the sofa to rest.
Our friends were sufficiently horrified as it was, but for the denouement they were quite unprepared.
After that the letters ceased and he heard nothing more, and it was several years before the denouement occurred.
As yet the terrible denouement to their enterprise had made no clear impression upon her mind.
Then laughter, story, and denouement were all drowned in a tumultuous crash of music.
In the denouement it is revealed that a Ruddygore baron can only die through refusing to commit the daily crime, but that such a refusal is tantamount to suicide.
In the revised version the denouement is happy instead of tragic.
In the denouement Wilhelm discovers her attachment to him, and frees himself from Filina's fascinations.
In the denouementshe confesses that the late King intrusted the Prince to her, and when traitors came to steal him she substituted her own son and kept the Prince in hiding, and that Luiz is the real Prince.
The denouement of the story is quickly told in the last act.
In the denouement Fritz is restored to his Wanda and the Duchess marries Prince Paul.
The denouement ensues when she appears to him as the veritable Madeleine of Lonjumeau, whither the joyous pair return and are happy ever after.
This denouement differs from that of the historical version, in which both lovers are killed.
And, further, the denouement is but the inevitable result of the adoption of Golden Ruleism by the world.
And I can foretell the denouement so far as the Regular school is concerned: You received as many prescriptions that were totally unlike as there were men of that school who prescribed for you.
The denouement is well brought about and satisfactory, but scarcely atones for the outrageous nature of the principal situation.
When they both die of poison, and Gertrude becomes repentant, we feel that thedenouement is not satisfactory.
His stories are therefore often quite unsymmetrical, even anecdotic, in construction; some of them are mere episodes, in which the action is irrelevant, and sometimes he boldly ends an elaborate romance without any dramatic denouement at all.
But I think, and I always shall think, that the denouement in that third act is damnable!
And then at last the tense moment, the sudden cessation of her husband's foolish laughter and futile taunts, the supreme denouement with its interval of breathless silence.
