They no longer received any news; they were, so to say, at the bottom of a cellar, in a walled hole, where they were anxiously awaiting either deliverance or the finishing stroke.
This melancholy illumination gave a finishing touch to the consternation of the Municipal Commission.
This information gave a finishing touch to the consternation of the yellow drawing-room.
What gave him thefinishing stroke was the dishonesty of the gardener who cultivated the land.
Now for the first time I realized how near that lance-point must have come tofinishing the chapter for me.
His horse collapsed on top of me, as some thundering warrior I did not see gave the stupendous finishing stroke to rider and beast at once.
Dave and Joe were at the barn finishing up for the day.
One hot day, as we were finishing dinner, a sheriff's bailiff rode up to the door.
Hawkeye, once more elevating the butt of the long and fatal rifle; "a finishing blow from a man without a cross will never tell against his honor, nor rob him of his right to the scalp.
Zora was perched in a tree singing softly and beneath a fat black mule was finishing his breakfast.
Robert, here you are almost finished, and my heart is set on your going to Atlanta University and finishing college.
Quickly finishing her toilet, she hurried down to arrange the flowers, for they were alone that night.
It was the first time the school had ever had that idea; as usually they have been contented with finishing near the foot of the list.
If I could get decently stuck in a snow bank I’d like it a heap better than finishing last in the race.
Often he was one of a little bunch of half milers and milers, and there was a pleasurable intoxication in working past this runner or that, and, as sometimes happened, finishing well in the lead.
Then he called on his reserve strength and spurted forward, making a fine race to the tape and finishing well up behind the speedy Sutton.
A group of workmen were putting the finishing touches on the new flagstaff, and already it reared its length aloft on the edge of the bluff, the glistening gold ball at the top of the slender mast shining bright against the gray sky.
Ruth had been finishing a little memorandum in her oilcloth covered book.
Jerome, finishing his supper, said nothing, but he knew, and Paulina Maria knew that he knew, there was already a mortgage on her house.
The Squire's forehead wrinkled with laughter, but he was finishinghis pipe before going to bed, and would not remove it.
GROUT'ING, the filling up or finishingwith grout: the stuff so used.
The Divina Commedia is of Dante's writing; yet in truth it belongs to ten Christian centuries, only the finishing of it is Dante's.
Wallace heard the blast; and seeing the day was won at the palace, he left the finishing of the affair to Kirkpatrick and Murray; and, drawing off a small party to reinforce Graham, he took the Southron officer by surprise.
Did he come openly, the jealousy of the Scottish lords would be reawakened, and the worst of them might put a finishing stroke to their country by taking him off by assassination or poison.
He was just finishing breakfast, and would come to the telephone.
Far away across the common gleamed one solitary light in the vicarage windows; the Vicar, good gentleman, finishing his unruffled sermon while his parish slept.
Here the sorceress finishing the relation of the success of her commission, and continuing her discourse, said, "What does your majesty think of these unheard-of riches of the fairy?
It was feeble wit, but it put the finishing stroke to Kitty's vanity, and she dropped a tear in her blue tissue retreat, and clung to Jack, feeling that she had never valued him half enough.
In the finishing and adornment of the finer weapons no expense is spared; and ancient krises of good workmanship sometimes fetch enormous prices.
It is very extensively applied in the finishing of ordinary iron-mongery goods and domestic iron-work, deed boxes, clock dials and papier-mache articles.
JERRY, a short form of the name Jeremiah, applied to various common objects, and more particularly to a machine for finishing cloth.
File judiciously with a light hand where required, and then, for the first time using the scraper, complete the blade with great care by scraping, finishing as usual with sand-paper.
With saw and knife cut each peg to the sketch, finishing the whole, excepting the circular plug.
For the finishing touches use the file, scraper, and sand-paper.
Then, as each plug has been purposely made slightly too long, saw off each projection at the back, and smooth the whole of the back with the plane, so effecting the finishing touches.
For finishing the bowl, fix the handle in the bench screw, and pare with a wide chisel, afterwards applying the knife for completing the bowl and handle.
Saw to that line without obliterating it, finishing with spokeshave, plane, chisel, and file.
On finishing the hundred the player shouts "Coming!
Wind a little wool or silk firmly round each leg, finishing it off as neatly as possible.
After finishing his education at William Rankin's Classical School and studying under Chris Marsh, author of double entry bookkeeping, he assisted his father in the mercantile business for some time.
After finishing my work there I returned to Broken Bow where I soon accepted a position in the office of J.
Don nodded, and ran with Jem in the required direction, finishing the loading as they went.
The system thus mounted is placed within the permanent globe, and a vacuum is obtained in the ordinary way, while the testing and finishing details present nothing of special interest.
Nothing could make me so delighted as the happiness of finishing the war under your orders.
He was just finishing when she turned on her heel and went out into the hall and upstairs.
She gained some inkling of the character of Hanson's life when, half asleep, she looked out into the dining-room at six o'clock and saw him silently finishing his breakfast.
Drouet was just finishing a little incident he was relating, and his face was expanding into a smile, when Hurstwood's eye caught his own.
Will, in finishing his pathetic speech, appeared almost on the point of shedding tears.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "finishing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
