Crowning

Examples

• But the _Clermont_, in spite of all prophecies to the contrary, had traveled under her own steam from New York to Albany, and the trip was the crowning event in Fulton’s career as inventor. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• When the house has been swept and garnished, they dress up the exiled vices, and, crowning them with garlands, bring them back under new names. Plato. The Republic.
• She took the congratulations of her rivals and of the rest of the company with the simplicity that was her crowning grace. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• This interregnum has lasted as long as that between the fall of the Western Empire and the crowning of Charlemagne in Rome. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• That's the crowning point of unreason in the business! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Margaret had resolved not to mention the crowning and closing affright to her father. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• It is the crowning glory of the place. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Should I bring it to a successful conclusion, it will certainly represent the crowning glory of my career. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Later on, and as the crowning achievement in the phonograph field, from a commercial point of view, came the duplication of records to the extent of many thousands from a single master. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Human history is in essence a history of ideas, and these tremendous experiences of the war constitute a crowning epoch. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Amidst this confusion occurred a crowning event. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• She was like some rare flower grown for exhibition, a flower from which every bud had been nipped except the crowning blossom of her beauty. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.

Typed by Agatha