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In the end   /ɪn ðə ɛnd/   Listen
In the end

adverb
1.
After a very lengthy period of time.  Synonym: in the long run.
2.
As the end result of a succession or process.  Synonyms: at last, at long last, finally, ultimately.  "At long last the winter was over"






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"In the end" Quotes from Famous Books



... made seaworthy, and in the end we built a smaller ship still which we called the Santa Cruz. Aguado waited, fretting. Christopherus Columbus kept toward him a great, ...
— 1492 • Mary Johnston

... they have pursued from time to time to accomplish their purpose, I need not enumerate. For twelve years I have sought to restore peace to the Province, by putting down their pretensions. I have varied in the means I have employed, but never in the end I have had in view, as I have always avowed to them and their partizans, and to the Colonial and Imperial Governments, on every ...
— The Story of My Life - Being Reminiscences of Sixty Years' Public Service in Canada • Egerton Ryerson

... In the end, he said, he earned a hundred dollars a month. He lived with the extraordinary frugality of the Italians, and had quite a ...
— Twilight in Italy • D.H. Lawrence

... racket of my own thoughts. Tony and John would go out to-night, to-morrow, every night. But I have slept so dead (not from bodily tiredness) that, the door being bolted against the children, they were unable to waken me for dinner, and in the end Tony told them to 'let the poor beast bide.' Of what nature was that passion, so exultant and so tiring? Are these fishermen so used to it that they 'don't take much note o'it'? For they feel it. ...
— A Poor Man's House • Stephen Sydney Reynolds

... wealth, but she has left us in poverty; when she gives us prosperity we will worship her, but not till then." Both Daniel's father and his visitor looked at the boy angrily, but said nothing; however, in the end his father decided not ...
— Old Daniel • Thomas Hodson


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