Finished

Examples

• But now he is finished. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Sissy's face sufficiently showed that her appeal to him was not finished. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• In the darkness which had now fallen none could tell but that he had really finished me. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• When he had finished, an Indian orator stood up to thank him. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• When this road was finished the offensive would start. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• But I hope you HAD finished your reading, Henry? Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• However, it was finished, the foil was put on; I then shouted 'Mary had a little lamb,' etc. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The pipe of tobacco finished the business: and the Bute-Crawleys never knew how many thousand pounds it cost them. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Only by starting with crude material and subjecting it to purposeful handling will he gain the intelligence embodied in finished material. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• We then have the picture in its finished form. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• When the bed is finished, the strips are clamped with steel clamps, the turned-up ends of which firmly grip the sides of the bed, thus preventing warping or spreading. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• We backed a horse named Light For Me that finished fourth in a field of five. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Yes, she said, and I have just finished it. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• She knew them, they were finished, sealed and stamped and finished with, for her. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Richard came back as we finished exchanging these hurried words and gave me his arm to take me to the coach. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Lord Worcester came to me before I had finished my dinner. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• As soon as you have finished getting the apples, her aunt said, descending the ladder, come down, and we'll go for the holly. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• This is finished similar to the maple strips. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• It is done--past--finished! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• There was a gunsmith in Utica, and he walked there, fifteen miles over the hills, to have his barrel finished. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The skinning was begun and had to be finished. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• You will find us at poor Straker's house when you have finished your walk, and we can drive together into Tavistock. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Just as he finished, however, we drove through two scattered villages, where a few lights still glimmered in the windows. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Beautifully finished furniture in quartered oak has always excited the pleasure, and piqued the curiosity of the uninformed as to how this result is obtained. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• When they had finished their breakfast Tarzan went to her bower and recovered his knife. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• My work will probably never be finished; and it will certainly never be published. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Lizzie finished putting the hair carefully back over the misshapen shoulders, and then lighted a candle. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• When she had finished, she looked round, and her old mistress bowed herself before her. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• It happened that at the time I was more or less at leisure, because I had just finished working on the carbon-button telephone, and this electric-light idea took possession of me. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• It was begun in 1882 and finished in 1890, and is the largest and most costly viaduct in the world. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.

Edited by Andrea