Ended

Examples

• It ended in my moving into the house next Lady-day, and starting in practice on very much the same conditions as he had suggested. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• The debate had ended at three in the morning. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• We have now ended the 6th day of very hard fighting. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Its founder was Clovis (481-511), who began as a small king in Belgium and ended with his southern frontiers nearly at the Pyrenees. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The interview here ended, I agreeing, however, to send a letter giving final terms by ten o'clock that night. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• It ended in my determining to keep the nightgown, and to wait, and watch, and see what use I might make of it. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Then, they are the more insolent, and it is the nearer ended. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• It ended in her driving them both to the nearest station, more than three hours since. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Another pause ensued; Marianne was greatly agitated, and it ended thus. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• The crusaders beleaguered Prague, but failed to take it, and they experienced a series of reverses that ended in their retreat from Bohemia. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• A wild, long laugh rang through the deserted room, and ended in a hysteric sob; she threw herself on the floor, in convulsive sobbing and struggles. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• It would have all ended in a regular standing flirtation, in yearly meetings at Sotherton and Everingham. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• The remainder of the play ended--the Saracen's head was cut off, and Saint George stood as victor. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Edward's embarrassment lasted some time, and it ended in an absence of mind still more settled. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• The next stage, however, ended as that one ended; we had no new clue. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Fred ended, innocently referring only to his own love as probably evident enough. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• When the Demarch ended, he raised his head with a bitter smile on his pallid face, and flung out his hand threateningly towards the speaker. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Mr. Lorry readily engaged for that, and the conference was ended. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• But I know this, he ended by saying that he was afraid neither his help nor any other doctor's help was likely to be of much service. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• When the lad ended she began, precisely in the same words, and ranted on without hitch or divergence till she too reached the end. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Here we cannot trace out the tangle of alliances and betrayals that ended in the ascendancy of this Octavian, the adopted heir of Julius C?sar. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• In Smyrna we picked up camel's hair shawls and other dressy things from Persia; but in Palestine--ah, in Palestine--our splendid career ended. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• All similes and allegories concerning her began and ended with birds. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• And it ended by my discovering traces, but very different ones from those which I had expected. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• So ended our conference, which I was very glad to bring to a close. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Her persecutions ought to be ended: she ought to return to the society of which she was an ornament. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Who began it, or how fair it was, or how unfair, may be doubtful; but how it ended is certainly not doubtful, for the victim was found throttled. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Because of our mobility and because we did not have to stay afterwards to take the punishment we never knew how anything really ended, he thought. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• There were heavy attacks on either side that ended in bloody repulses. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It proved, however, that our vigil was not to be so long as Holmes had led us to fear, and it ended in a very sudden and singular fashion. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.

Editor: Lorna