"Finis" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... apocopen"— As vid{e}n'? m{e}n'? and aud{i}n?— so in Ex{i}n' and sub{i}n', de{i}n', pro{i}n'. An, from a nominative in a Ending a word is short, they say, But every an for long must pass Derived from nominative in as. Nouns, too, in en are short whose finis Doth in the genitive make inis. And so are n's that do delight {i}n An i and y— Alex{i}n, It{y}n. Greek words are short I'd have you know, That end in on with little o, Common are terminating o's, Cases oblique except from those, Adverbial adjectives as falsO Are long,— take tantO,— ...
— The Comic Latin Grammar - A new and facetious introduction to the Latin tongue • Percival Leigh
... chest, where my grandfather's huge knee-buckles, and my great-grandmother's yellow brocaded silk-dress, with its waist the length of my little finger, and the sleeves as wide as a balloon. Gentlemen, permit me one parting paragraph, before I write 'finis' on this matter of education, and 'hereafter for ever hold my peace.' Be it distinctly understood, 'by these presents,' that if that child Regina grows up a blue-stocking, or a metempsychosist, a scientist or a freedom-shrieker, a professor of physics or a practitioner ...
— Infelice • Augusta Jane Evans Wilson
... crederem. Nempe, qui aliis iter rectum ostendere solebamus, nunc (quod exitio proximum est) coeci coecis ducibus per abrupta rapimur; alienoque circumvolvimur exemplo; quid velimus, nescii. Nam (ut coeptum exequar) totum hoc malum, seu nostrum proprium seu potius omnium gentium commune, IGNORATIO FINIS facit. Nesciunt inconsulti homines quid agant: ideo quicquid agunt, mox ut coeperint, vergit in nauseam. Hinc ille discursus sine termino; hinc, medio calle, discordiae; et, ante exitum, DAMNATA ...
— The Prose Works of William Wordsworth • William Wordsworth
... she found a pencil and holding it unsteadily drew three parallel lines beneath the last entry. Then she printed FINIS in large capitals, put the book back in the ...
— The Beautiful and Damned • F. Scott Fitzgerald
... that, my friends, is a signal for us humans to go. The vultures get the last word always, even in a story, and the name of that word is—FINIS. ...
— The Way of the Wild • F. St. Mars
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