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"Last straw" Quotes from Famous Books

... to Henry as if an automobile was the last straw for the poor man's back: those enormous cars, representing fortunes, tyrannizing over the whole highway, frightening the poor old country horses, and endangering the lives of all before them. Henry ...

— The Shoulders of Atlas - A Novel • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

... of the British Parliament, and it secured for the Canadians the freedom of that worship so dear and so precious to them. So great was the tolerance granted to the Catholics of the North, that your fellow-colonists flew to arms lest a similar concession be made here. It was the last straw that broke the bonds of unity. For, henceforth, it was decreed that only a complete and independent separation from the British Parliament could secure to the people the ...

— The Loyalist - A Story of the American Revolution • James Francis Barrett

... health at the time when she develops into a woman, not because of the special demand for strength made at that time, but because the demands on the general system for strength have been, for twelve or fifteen years, greater than the system could supply. It is not the last straw that breaks the camel's back, but it is all the straws. The mother who has educated her daughter into a healthy appetite for food, as to quality and quantity; who has educated her into a healthy appetite for sleep; who has, through constant watchfulness over her ...

— The Education of American Girls • Anna Callender Brackett

... was. The Head drummed irritably with his fingers on the arm of his chair. This mystery, coming as it did after the series of worries through which he had been passing for the last few days, annoyed him as much as it is to be supposed the last straw annoyed ...

— The Pothunters • P. G. Wodehouse

... a gesture of despair; it seemed to him the last straw that Fanny should have chosen this particular time to come and sob in his room over his ...

— The Magnificent Ambersons • Booth Tarkington

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