She was rummaging in a box of discarded odds and ends for "trimmings.
And here, in less than a week, Aunt Isabel would come by and whisk her off to theends of the earth; and she might have to go without really knowing what Raymond meant.
She changed the black tie on her middy blouse to a scarlet one and let the ends fly out of her grey waterproof cape.
The Sioux may be at both ends of this bend, for all we know.
It ends at the gate," I said to him, and handed him his pistol.
She was thinner now with this prairie life, and browner, and the ends of her hair were still yellowing, like that of outdoors men.
The two ends were occupied by two partners of the house.
You could see the masts had been cut away, by the hacked ends of the shrouds snaking out into the hollows and swellings over the side.
Some of the council were inclined to insist, but others pointed out that, for the ends of justice, it mattered in no way how I obtained the information.
The difficulty will be to force the ends of the iron down, between the beams and the planks, so as to give us a purchase," Matteo said.
As soon as he was alone again, Francis set to work, and by the afternoon the ends of the four rivets were worn down level with the iron, and it needed but a pressure to make the rings spring open.
They must have thrust the ends of their oars through her planks, out of sheer spite, when they found that we had escaped them.
Do not unstring the bow too often while shooting; once in every six doubleends is quite enough, unless there are many shooters.
At once the most direct and striking proof of this lies in the fact that the revolutionist, whether he be propagandist or man of action, invariably commits himself, and ends by executing the very function he denied.
Hers is the head upon which all "the ends of the world are come," and the eyelids are a little weary.
The scene ends with the four people scurrying about in a double chase among the flowers, for which Boito found exquisitely dainty music.
The hero touches the wound in the side of the king with the sacred spear, ends his dolors, and is hailed as king in his place.
In Paris, at a masked ball in the house of Flora, one of her associates, Alfredo finds her again, overwhelms her with reproaches, and ends a scene of excitement by denouncing her publicly and throwing his gambling gains at her feet.
The Count takes the case under advisement, and the act ends with Figaro's enemies sure of triumph and his friends dismayed.
He falls on his knees, asks forgiveness, receives it, and all ends happily.
The last speech of Venus ends with the line:-- So says Hans Sachs of Nuremberg.
Usually though, it only ends in talk, and the teams make a barnstorming trip to San Francisco or to Cuba.
The poor trustful shark lets his jaws come together with a snap, or rather he thinks he does, and instead of a nice juicy human, those guileless jaws of his close on the two ends of the pointed stick and stay there.
He naturally lands again outside of Bergen and ends his days as a modest parish clerk, although never forgetting that once upon a time he used to be an Underground Emperor.
Fortunately Oxford was no particularly expensive place at that time, L40 a year being sufficient to pull a man through, and Holberg was always very economical, and understood remarkably well the difficult art of making both ends meet.
A sustained love song, it endswith a cadence that should be played with a rippling delicacy suggestive of moonlight on a lake in the garden of an old chateau.
There are five variations and the composition ends with a repetition of the air.
It is Parisian in its grace and coquetry and ends with a rapid run, the last note of which is like the rhythmic tap of the foot with which a dainty ballet dancer might conclude a lightly executed pas.
The first course begins with his early opera "Rienzi" and ends with "Parsifal.
Such a patient recasting of material for the ends of verbal exactness and accuracy suggests ways in which the imagination may deal with characters and scenes in order to stimulate and foster its own activity.
In this way we possess the poem, and make it serve the ends of culture.
Had they looked at the door, they would have seen the inquisitive face of Doris disappear towards the staircase, with that air of determination which only ends in action.
I am only a solitary bachelor, travelling hither and thither because I do not know how else to spend my money; but I am willing to work for your endsif you are willing to work for mine.
For I knew, senor, that they would follow us to the ends of the earth if any harm came to thee,' the old fellow tol'.
Conceit, insufferable vanity, bristled at the ends of his curved mustache.
The tips consist of the thin ends employed in picking up food.
On the seaward side it ends precipitously in a fringe of broken cliffs, while on the landward side its gentle slopes are covered with streets and houses and open spaces.
The mention of the ends of chopsticks as an ingredient in this preparation seems curious, and specially noteworthy is the fact that the medicinal virtue resides only in old chopsticks, not in new ones.
But his Sociology is yet unfinished: and from the plan of its inception, and the imperfect conception of the ends and means of its investigation, hardly admits of completion in any systematic sense.
Psychology forgets only too easily that all those numerical statistics which experiment allows us to form are only means for psychological analysis and interpretation, not ends in themselves.
For the ends under examination do not fall completely into a serial order, nor does one involve others in such a way as to destroy their independence.
Such faculties are powers in a hierarchy of means and ends and presuppose a normative or critical function which has classified reality.
But because life is as requisite as liberty to the solution, the fight endsin the first instance as a one-sided negation with inequality.
Our summer is [171] not here until the Elder is fully in flower, and it ends when the berries are ripe.
Belonging to the order of Caprifoliaceous (with leaves eaten by goats) plants, the Elder bush grows to the size of a small tree, bearing many white flowers in large flat umbels at the ends of the branches.
The word "gad" is used in our western counties for a stick pointed at both ends to fasten down thatch.
It bears the title of Cockleburr, or Sticklewort, because its seed vessels cling by the hooked ends of their stiff hairs to any person or animal coming into contact with the plant.
It is a fact, that by acting in this way, the barren ends of the branches are knocked off, and fresh fruit-bearing twigs spring out at each side in their stead.
Its success depends very much upon rocks, woods, and waterfalls; and it generallyends daggers, pistols, or poison.
And so ends my novel, elegant, and original plan for striking up a sudden friendship," cried Lady Emily.
He thought of the great temples so near him, of the tombs of the Kings, of all those wonders to see which men travelled from the ends of the earth.
The sailors threw away the ends of their cigarettes.
For the Lord our God Most High He hath made the deep as dry, He hath smote for us a pathway to the ends of all the earth.
It had its effect, and John Crondall stood, presently, before an entirely silent and eagerly expectant multitude, when he began his explanation of the ends and aims of The Citizens.
In short, as time went on, I became as indifferent to ends and aims as the most callous among those at whose indifference to matters of real moment I had once girded so vehemently.
So, before I begin, I give you the greeting of men of our blood from all the ends of the earth.
He beholdeth under all the heavens, and his light is upon the ends of the earth.
And lighten with his light from above, he shall cover also the ends of the sea.
For he beholdeth the endsof the world: and looketh on all things that are under heaven.
The young lady's costume consists of a loose dressing gown, trimmed around the top and on the ends of the sleeves with bands of red cloth, and gold paper cut in the form of diamonds.
A wide white mantle trimmed with oak leaves should be worn across the breast, the ends ornamented with wide yellow cambric fringe, which should be fastened at the side with a blue rosette, and trail made nearly long enough to reach the floor.
At the ends of the festoons, the curtains must be wide enough to fill out the space at the side of the stage, and so long that they will trail on the floor.
The extremeends of the platform are occupied by two figures costumed similar to those already described.
The boy is dressed in a dark suit, and reclines on the snow by the side of the mother; his head rests on her dress, arms stretched out towards her waist; his eyes closed in that cold and dreamy sleep which ends in death.
The sleeves are bound with gold and pink ribbon in alternate bands, three inches wide; a small scarf of white gauze, covered with spangles and fringed at the ends with gold, encircles the waist.
Each one should hold a small torch ten inches in length, from which rises a blue flame; these can be made of card-board, and covered with light blue paper, with the ends tipped with gold.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ends" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
