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Upshot   /ˈəpʃˌɑt/   Listen
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Upshot  n.  Final issue; conclusion; the sum and substance; the end; the result; the consummation. "I can not pursue with any safety this sport to the upshot." "We account it frailty that threescore years and ten make the upshot of man's pleasurable existence."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Upshot" Quotes from Famous Books



... Eric, "and this is the upshot of it, that in the spring we sail for England and bid farewell to Iceland ...
— Eric Brighteyes • H. Rider Haggard

... much trouble of spirit, and with many doubts; but the upshot of it all was that he would keep his engagement for the Sunday. His last chance of escape would have been to call in Conduit Street on the Saturday and tell Mr. Neefit, with such apologies as he might be ...
— Ralph the Heir • Anthony Trollope

... man!" commanded the lawyer sternly. "This talk is between your father and myself. As for you, young man, remember to what you have sworn, and bear in mind that the upshot of it all for you may yet be a term ...
— Dick Prescott's Third Year at West Point - Standing Firm for Flag and Honor • H. Irving Hancock

... fine, but please to tell me what will be the upshot of the whole affair? He can't marry the girl—marriage is out of the question, and to make her his—God help us! "Good-by t'ye!" No, no—when such a sprig of nobility has been nibbling here and there and everywhere, ...
— The Works of Frederich Schiller in English • Frederich Schiller

... discharge of the offenders, and justifying the demand by much wealth of detail. For it must not be supposed that the quarrel rested with the wife and did not take in the husband also - or with the gardener's sister, and did not speedily include the gardener himself. As the upshot of all this petty quarrelling and intemperate speech, she was practically excluded (like a lightkeeper on his tower) from the comforts of human association; except with her own indoor drudge, who, being but a lassie and entirely at her mercy, must submit to the shifty weather of "the ...
— Weir of Hermiston • Robert Louis Stevenson


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