How To Use Last word In A Sentence

Those with a hearty appetite for the whiz of bullets, the bang of artillery, dying declarations, famous last words, and eyewitness accounts of the face of battle will not be disappointed.
He must have been very drunk, for at last the heavy sleep gripped him with the suddenness of a magic spell, and the last word lengthened itself into an interminable, noisy, in-drawn snore. Youth And Two Other Stories
The last word must go to Nick, who has organized the whole project.
Finally finishing her speech she uttered a few last words.
When reviewers and prize jurors tout a repetitive style as "the last word in gnomic control," or a jumble of unsustained metaphor as "lyrical" writing, it is obvious that they, too, are having difficulty understanding what they read. A Reader's Manifesto

Mozart's ‘last words’ were his attempt to produce the sound of the kettledrums in his Requiem.
In 15 years, when it's even easier to analyze a DNA sample, might governments not see DNA as the last word in personal identification?
My last word (I hope), is to once again refute your post at #115. Sound Politics: The soft bigotry of low expectations
The Sermon on the Mount is the last word in Christian ethics.
CB contd: Since Marx's word is not the last word, there is development in the ideas and Lenin has come in the Russian revolution, interpreting and improving the ideas of Marx to suit the objective conditions of Russian society. Archive 2006-07-01
Do not make the last word of each line _emphatic_, unless it is really an _emphatic word_. New National Fourth Reader
The Chairman always has the last word on financial decisions.
As the last words came hoarsely forth on to the night air, _clang, clang, clang_, burst out the tocsin of the alarm bell, silencing the music in the ballroom and sending an electric thrill through every listener within the precincts of the castle; but ere the great bell had sent forth a score of vibrating notes which came quivering through the darkness and echoing from every wall, the clattering of hoofs began in obedience to the whispered commands of his Majesty of France: The King's Esquires The Jewel of France
He put a slight emphasis on the last word, as though unsure exactly what it implied.
But above all, we have seen people dying, heard people sobbing their last words.
I put the emphasis on that last word just right so to elicit some reaction from him.
By fair means, or foul -- he himself ignored the last word and would have substituted the term skilful for it -- Pemberton Bryce meant to have Mary The Paradise Mystery
And let the last word quoted here be one of Elizabeth's own, illustrative of her strangely mingled temperament of queenliness and insolence.
The last word, proclaiming the totemism of things that are ‘good to eat,’ is uttered in a cadence of triumph.
The doctor even had a catch in the last word he spoke, and then he'd stopped speaking as Aaron saw the lump form in his throat.
And if reputation and reward shall attend these conquests, which depend mostly on the fineness and niceties of words, it is no wonder if the wit of man so employed, should perplex, involve, and subtilize the signification of sounds, so as never to want something to say in opposing or defending any question; the victory being adjudged not to him who had truth on his side, but the last word in the dispute. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
For all the father knows, this letter could possibly be the last words he ever conveys to his son. A KING'S RANSOM
And he was gifted with that peculiar power which enables a man to have the last word in every encounter, -- a power which we are apt to call repartee, which is in truth the readiness which comes from continual practice. The Duke's Children
Indeed, dearest, you shall not have last word as you think, ” all the 'risk' shall not be mine, neither; how can I, in the event, throw ambs-ace (is not that the old word?) and not peril your stakes too, when once we have common stock and are partners? The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett
He stared at the last word a while, then leaned over and brought up the OED on his innetscreen. THE BIRTHDAY OF THE WORLD
During one such conversation his last words were ‘there are just two other things…’ followed by unresponding, stertorous breathing.
Which brings up the issues of multiple accounts and versions of a particular royal's last words.
As the last words of the song fade, the swell of organs segues into a trebly acoustic guitar and hi-hat section highly reminiscent of early Modest Mouse.
From first rude frame to lascivious last, Grindhouse guns to be the last word in fanboy fetishism," writes Nathan Lee in the Voice. GreenCine Daily: Grindhouse, 4/4.
“Still, thought you might like to hear the last word from the bluenose himself.” DIAMOND RUBY
However, the last word was not enunciated clearly, or so he claimed.
Character is the first and last word in the success circle.
(Woden's last words to Balder are famous); the riding round the pyre; the eulogium; the piling of the barrow, which sometimes took whole days, as the size of many existing grass mounds assure us; the funeral feast, where an immense vat of ale or mead is drunk in honor of the dead; the epitaph, like an ogham, set up on a stone over the barrow. The Danish History, Books I-IX
The obit is part of a series of segments with prominent individuals called "Last Word. Andy Plesser: Dead Men Talking: Online Video Obits Getting Traction at The New York Times
She had the slightest hint of a lisp, and so the last word came out of her mouth sounding like ‘thresses.’
The only difference is the nearly synonymous last word -- Richardson didn't say "unchurched" -- he said "unaffiliated. Chris Rodda: Petraeus Endorses "Spiritual Handbook," Betrays 21% of Our Troops
Her last word braced the lad as nothing else could. The Man from Glengarry; a tale of the Ottawa
The horrible old woman made him afraid, especially did her last words make him afraid, because he who was experienced in such matters knew that she had come with no intention of uttering them, that they had burst from her lips in a sudden semi-trance such as overtakes her sisterhood from time to time. Love Eternal
And now this is the last word: here is a horn of oliphant which thou shalt wear about thy neck, Birdalone; and if thou be sore bestead, or thy heart faileth thee, blow in it, yet not before the onfall; and then, whether thou blow much or little, thou shalt be well holpen. The Water of the Wondrous Isles
Supposedly his last words to her were: "You must not pity me.".
“You think, then, that aerostatic science has said its last word?” Five Weeks in a Balloon
‘Our species is unable to learn from its mistakes,’ he rejoins, fatalistically, in the last words of his lectures.
However, another controversial incident leading to a successful short corner strike for Stockton ten minutes from time gave the visitors the last word, with York's late pressure proving unfruitful.
If you set yourself up as the last word on the truth or falsehood of ads, you will immediately be the addressee of a lot of spin.
The first, as Mumford, who considered Geddes “my master,” explained, was to plan cities at a human scale to avoid the sprawling modern megalopolis, which Mumford called “the last word in imageless urban amorphousness.” Makeshift Metropolis
The spa is the last word in luxury and efficiency.
But although the service is called futureme, I predict it'll prove especially popular with wives eager to get the last word - however long it takes - with their blowhard spouses.
Just ahead, we'll reveal what's on the cover of this week's major newsmagazines, plus, Bruce Morton's ‘Last Word.’
For once in his lifetime, it seemed as if my father, a man who always had to get the last word in, was completely and utterly speechless.
The last word, the very last word, in Libra is “history” which on page 321 he defines as “the sum total of all things they aren't telling us.” Confusion and Turbulence
But Kiwomya had the last word, capitalising on a slice of good fortune to make his birthday celebrations complete.
But Klusener had the last word, as Pollock raced round to mid-on to catch Smith after he mistimed a wild swing.
At present, this old chestnut is typically applied by media publications to female 2012 athletes, who are marshalled into photoshoots billed as the last word in expectations-busting. On your marks, sex, go … for the glamour Games | Marina Hyde
That was their last word on it, so these letters just look like a sort of trap for the unwary, which is not fair," said Ofer Lion, a lawyer who has written about the issue. Msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines
He skidded the car to a stop at her last words, and she flung herself out of the car and started making her way towards the brush.
I mumbled yes, indeed, so it would be; then I noticed that she was looking at me a trifle arch, and cudgelled my wits to think why - she couldn't be wanting to get off with me, not with Canning there - and then her last words sank in, my legs went weak, and I believe I absolutely said, "Hey? Fiancée
The last words his wife heard him say were: ‘I love you, honey.’
let this be my last word , i trust thy love.
The poignancy of the last words here remind us that whatever McKinley's politics might have been like (and I don't know anything about them), he was a person who, in extremis, cared about other people. Intertribal: And if my life is like the dust that hides the glow of a rose, what good am I
For all the father knows, this letter could possibly be the last words he ever conveys to his son. A KING'S RANSOM
His last words might have been that century's valediction: ‘Great Lord and you, witnesses to my death, I have lived as a philosopher and die as a Christian.’
Mr. Gilgan, so Cowperwood knew, was only one of a new quadrumvirate setting out to rule the city, but he pretended to believe that he was the last word — an all power and authority — after the fashion of McKenty. The Titan
By the time Bugs Bunny picks his way through the smoking wreckage to have the last word in your shell-like, the dizzying accretion of events has pulled you through so many emotional states you might not even know what day it is.
There was an infinitesimal pause before the last word, as the principal tactfully searched for the right word, but an untrained ear wouldn't have noticed it.
And now this is the last word: here is a horn of oliphant which thou shalt wear about thy neck, Birdalone; and if thou be sore bestead, or thy heart faileth thee, blow in it, yet not before the onfall; and then, whether thou blow much or little, thou shalt be well holpen. The Water of the Wondrous Isles
Michael snarled and literally spat out the last word.
Clara said the last word with as much spite and disgust as she could conjure.
Driving his point home with a sharp tongue and a deadpan delivery, Soderbergh's is a devastating wit, and he always gives himself the last word.
As in ‘Pat and Pan,’ the story is also focalized through the child, and the child once again has the last word: ‘I never be good girl, but perhaps I be good boy’.
The last word hung in the air, conjuring images of the Star Chamber. Law of Attraction
Dogma_, he italicized those last words would appear to show that he attached some special, almost "thaumaturgical," value to them. Matthew Arnold
The residents ' lounge must surely enshrine the last word in moral censoriousness. PASSION IN THE PEAK
The emphasis is on the first syllable of the last word.
The old crone's expression cleared at his last words.
And now this is the last word: here is a horn of oliphant which thou shalt wear about thy neck, Birdalone; and if thou be sore bestead, or thy heart faileth thee, blow in it, yet not before the onfall; and then, whether thou blow much or little, thou shalt be well holpen. The Water of the Wondrous Isles
Benelli's UltraLight 12 gauge was the last word in downy-light autoloaders - until now. 10 New Shotguns from the 2008 SHOT Show
He paused, and the hunchback repeated his last word interrogatively: The Duke's Motto A Melodrama
Our electrically driven blooming mill, recently completed and now in operation, is the last word in equipment of its kind, has a rolling capacity sufficient to process our entire ingot production, and enables us to boast of an installation second to none on this continent. The Sun Rises in the East
His last words to me were endearments and affirmations of how much I meant to him and how important it was for me to be in his life.
That there is only one of Him is not just a first approximation, it is also the last word on the subject, and it makes the concept of Godhead a notably tense one.
The last word he shouts after her when she leaves the house settles in his mind the way a grain of sand comes to a halt in the dense flesh of oysters.
That last word indicates something that is hazy, confused, difficult to grasp and bewildered.
my doctor has the last word on the medicines I take
We sped through a flyblown Landi Kotal, once the last word in druggy entrepots, and on to Michni checkpost.
Put it this way - the last words of the movie "the dark knight" - Batman kills - Joker wins - yet you can say batman wins as joker is locked up and that also is correctly two sides of a coin ahhh i love it - bring on the debates and questions this movie is going to generate oh sorry it's only a comic? he he Sound Off: The Dark Knight - What Did You Think?! « FirstShowing.net
Last words, for now, go to Chris Stein circa 1978. Delete, not fade away and radiate? « Innovation Cloud
Is this the last word in New Testament lexicography?
let this be my last word , i trust thy love.
In the U.S., with economics as the focal social institution, last words and testaments will deal with the disposition of goods.
The last words were crossed out and new wording was substituted in manuscript.
The task was simply to indicate if the last word was a word or a non-word.
In a weird way, letting Rolling Eyes have the last word would sort of say everything about why we're Pagans, why we honor fairie magic and use quartz crystals to help bring peace and healing into the world. Pagan Values: The Clinic
He has the last word in everything; his decision is unappealable.
He also had the last word - "The wee nyaff goat less than he deserved. IcAyrshire
We see spices as a luxury for a medieval kings ostentation, as a mummys deodorant, as the last word in haute cuisine. Spice: Summary and book reviews of Spice by Jack Turner.
These last words were spoken aside; but the Englishman could not fail to perceive, from the wry mouths of some of the party who were possessed of a nicer palate, that they were as much afraid as himself of a repetition of the acid potation. Anne of Geierstein
I have --" he tried to speak; faltered, broke, went on: "I have -- the kindliest feelings toward you, 'Thalia" -- his last word was in a whisper. The Way to Peace
This would not be the last word on the issue, because we need facts and information to come to a final verdict.
As Jude worried through the logistics of releasing the dead-zone coordinates to the mechs without revealing them to BioMax—though the whole beauty of the location was its inhospitableness to orgs, making secrecy a bonus rather than a necessity—I watched the door, half expecting Zo to burst through with a last word. Wired
The caressing fondness with which he uttered the last word imparted to his seemingly supreme beauty an added warmth of appeal. The Patient Observer And His Friends
His last words to his estranged son had a prophetic ring: ‘May the Lord spare me until I have taken vengeance upon you.’
And yet in a sense, music is a love-food -- in the sense I mean, that there is love-nourishment in tubes of paint, which can perpetuate your beauty, my fair readeress; or in ink-bottles all ebon with Portuguese sonnets and erotic rondeaux; or in tubs of plaster of Paris, or in bargain-counterfuls of dress goods to add the last word to a woman's beauty. The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 2
Which, while they're still fast friends, was the last word ever passed between them on the subject of the funker and the balker. The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier
If "complaisant" was not the very last word that came to mind at the thought of Jamie Fraser, it was certainly well down toward the bottom of the list. Dragonfly in Amber
And he has grandiose plans for a multi-million pound visitor centre that would be the last word in UFOs and the paranormal.
Alex Cockburn gets the last word on a man who shills for privilege, has plenty for himself, and like George Bush disdains the public interest: "Al Gore distills in his single person the disrepair of liberalism in America today, and almost every unalluring feature of the Democratic Party" that's mostly indistinguishable from the other side of the aisle in a city where the criminal class is bipartisan. Nobel Hypocrisy
He raised his voice when uttering the last words, as if asking a question; so, the coastguardsman answered it at once. Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel
'I shortly afterward took my leave -- the last words of my new copartner being: The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 6, June, 1862 Devoted To Literature and National Policy
his last words
His voice broke as he fought back emotions to tell an Old Bailey jury of the boy's last words.
But that doesn't mean defense attorneys and reformers should resign themselves to a conviction every time a client is fingered by a victim's last words.
It would be an absolute shame if my one opinion piece was the last word on identity.
Even though the revenant was gone, his last words troubled Sabriel. SABRIEL
His last words were to his wife of fifty-two years, whom he is said to have kissed and adjured, “Live mindful of our marriage, Livia, and farewell.” Caesars’ Wives
As she puzzled out his last words, Hinano grinned at her bewilderment and brought her closer to the imu, where three large Hawaiian men were shoveling aside a thick layer of loose sand to reveal what appeared to be a thick covering of kapa cloth, woven mats, and burlap bags. The Aloha Quilt
The residents ' lounge must surely enshrine the last word in moral censoriousness. PASSION IN THE PEAK
To Gaston there was a kind of fascination, an actually aesthetic beauty, in the spectacle of that keen-edged intelligence, dividing evidence so finely, like some exquisite steel instrument with impeccable sufficiency, always leaving the last word loyally to the central intellectual faculty, in an entire disinterestedness. Gaston de Latour; an unfinished romance
Her voice dripped with the sharpness of mockery as she pronounced these last words.
These last words he muttered to himself, and walked zigzaging towards his house. Almayer's Folly
He comes back to the theme in the last words of the context, where he says that the Philippian messenger had 'hazarded' his life, or, as we might put it with equal accuracy and more force, had 'gambled' his life, or Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy.
His spirits, which had dropped at her last words, rose with an irrational leap.
Did you ever notice that they always seem to want to have the last word on an argument?
Malinalli had not yet finished translating these last words when the discharge of a harquebus signaled the beginning of the slaughter. MALINCHE
Go to “crooks and liars” listen to Little Ricky talk about the memo, and then hold up the “Classified Memo” he recieved, then scrowl done to the post that sends you to the Offical Report, What does the last word on the report say? Think Progress » Defense Department Disavows Santorum’s WMD Claims
Let a young maid pick of rosemary two roots; of monk's-hood --" A line had been drawn through this last word, and another word written above it; but the ink was so faded, the page so woolly and thin with use, that it was impossible to decipher the correction; perhaps it was "mother-wort," an herb Philly did not know; or it might be "mandrake"? The Voice
let this be my last word , i trust thy love.
After singing Alabama's "Feels So Right," McGraw was joined by the Warren Brothers (his pals Brad and Brett), and after a quick Taylor Swift joke -- the teen twanger launched her career with the single "Tim McGraw" -- the three men collaborated on a gorgeous, chill-inducing version of "If You're Reading This," about a fallen soldier's last words to his family. Tim McGraw cranks up his country-casual charm at Jiffy Lube Live
Get the last word I know you want to your kickin stalls and chompin at the bit too so go for it. Are we a Christian Nation?
She put a false emphasis on that last word that made it sound like something else.
Strike a line through that last sentence or, rather, that last word -- for I am not alone: artists, writers, musicians, plumbers, preachers -- and even highfalutin Frenchmen, can feel the same way and, I suspect, do. French Word-A-Day:
He left his last words behind him as he fled through the portal, advanc-ing in long, steady, free strides toward the far hilltop. The Metrognome and Other Stories
This was the world in which I was born, and I myself was "a child of Nature cradled in her arms until my turn comes to die and to remain somewhere and somehow in her embrace"; so I thought to myself then in the budtime of youth, but not in those words, which were nearly the last words of my dear friend Dean Woodbridge of Columbia University. In the days of my youth when I was a student in the University of Virginia, 1888-1893.
Reach for the thesaurus and look up ‘drama’ and every last word you find will be needed to do justice to this heart-stopping occasion.
As he stumbled away, wrapped in oilskins, he shouted a few last words to us above the roar: ‘Good luck - and do help yourselves to whatever food and drink you can find.’
The Daily Gazette ran a story under the headline "Pope's Last Words".
Maybe it was the words, or the sudden wash of feeling, the sadness that came over me like a kind of faintness, that made me yearn forward as I said those last words, and meant them with all my heart even as I felt the metal of that crowbar in my hand, I loved you, too, Black and Blue
Nor could Polly's later explanation that the last word was "happy," and not "drunk," reconcile him; for she had been compelled to admit that the old king was a toper, and that he was always in his cups when he struck up the chant. BY THE TURTLES OF TASMAN
Finally, the EU is empowered with the last word on an applicant's fitness for membership.
As for Colleville, he was killing the time by composing an anagram on the six words of "le journal 'l'Echo de la Bievre,'" for which he had found the following version, little reassuring (as far as it went) for the prospects of that newspaper: "O d'Echo, jarni! la bevue reell" -- but as the final "e" was lacking to complete the last word, the work was not altogether as satisfactory as it should have been. The Lesser Bourgeoisie
She whispered the last words as they were impure to say, and according to everyone I've known… they are impure.
That last word, unfriend, is in fact, the word of the year.
He willed the farm to Annie before lapsing into delirium and feverishly mumbling his last words in the Maori he knew so well.
Sarah found herself screaming these last words, her cheeks running with tears.
A short story I wrote last night well, one long paragraph last week and then a phone call interrupted me so I had to wait till I had time to trance in again, "The Last Words of Dutch Schultz Jesus Christ" will be published in Dark Faith, The Mo*Con Anthology to be published next year. Nick Mamatas' Journal
Think totally seductive dresses, and you have the last word in after-dark glam.
Nicole Kidman learned a made-up language called ‘Ku’ for The Interpreter - and forgot every last word once the project wrapped.
Character is the first and last word in the success circle.
Character is the first and last word in the success circle.
It was those last words that finally lit the blue touchpaper.
The Daily Gazette ran a story under the headline "Pope's Last Words".
Soon after uttering the last word, the telltale, music-ruining shatter of glass could be heard.
let this be my last word , i trust thy love.
As many have noted, the very last words of the last book of the Jewish Bible end on a similar note.
Though it's hardly the last word in theatrical spectacle, John Going's production does better than just sprinkle shards for the aeronautical collapse, which marks the entrance of a Polish acrobat named Lina Szczepanowska. George Bernard Shaw's 'Misalliance' misses the mark at Olney Theatre Center
One last word about the family's sad wee story from the courts - here in Irvine I don't recall us using the word "crivvens" at all, I only came across it in The Sunday Post - The Broons and Oor Wullie. IcAyrshire
Those with a hearty appetite for the whiz of bullets, the bang of artillery, dying declarations, famous last words, and eyewitness accounts of the face of battle will not be disappointed.
Mowl is unusual for writing many books which are not offered as the last word on their subjects but as irreverent, amusing squibs, serving an intellectually stimulating role because they take nothing for granted.
Hamilton's last words, at the end of a deathlessly pretty coda, are a spoken "Fuck 'em". The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
Arno is shorter and less featured and framed than the Florentine, but it has the fine accent of a marked curve and is quite as bravely Tuscan; witness the type of river-fronting palace which, in half-a-dozen massive specimens, the last word of the anciently Italian Hours
Then their flannel and worsted pinstripe double-breasted office suiting is the last word in toney men’s wear. Archive 2009-03-01
Promptly followed the dingy train's short run up the shore of the New Canal, and then its stop athwart St. Charles St.eet, under no roof, amid no throng, without one huzza or cry of welcome, and the prompt dispersal of the outwardly burdenless wanderers, in small knots afoot, up-town, down-town, many of them trying to say over again those last words from the chief hero of their four years 'trial by fire. Kincaid's Battery
Tune in again next Sunday, every Sunday, at noon Eastern, for the last word in Sunday talk -- very unrude talk, as well. CNN Transcript Apr 7, 2002
The brigadier general, a polite little man who has lectured at the staff college for twenty years and who knows the last word in the science of warfare, especially of artillery, called the howitzer battery by telephone. Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights
Glamour matters: and shawls made in shahtoosh are the last word in restrained elegance: soft, light, warm and tinglingly expensive. Times, Sunday Times
One woman who phoned in told me she had been called a "superior c--t," the last word bleeped on the show itself. Honours for homophobe confirmed
Make up a line… make up another line, making sure that the last word rhymes with the previous last word, and ensure that the entire lyric is damn near meaningless.
The last words were crossed out and new wording was substituted in manuscript.
I suppose it was because Wendy knew this that her last words to him were these rather plaintive ones.
Finally Silas went home defeated, with a last word, half condemnatory, half placative. The Copy-Cat, & Other Stories
The choragus has fallen on his knees, and dips his head two or three times in an excavation in the ground, and a choir, also on their knees, repeat in dolorous tones the last words of a slow and solemn refrain. How I Found Livingstone
The last words of the speaker were nearly drowned in a heavy fusillade which issued from the woods close by. Mohun, or, the Last Days of Lee
Death will no longer be the last word: two Dublin businessmen are planning to allow people to communicate from beyond the grave, not through mediums but by e-mail.
The nation needs to remember why these condi tions occur, something stated most eloquently in the last words of the most famous of all addresses: "... so that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from this earth. We Owe Our Injured Military Veterans Good Treatment
I'm already very pleased by a bit of information from the Abaza section:Abaza and Abkhaz questions are very unusual in that they choose rightward question movement; that is, the interrogative pronoun appears at the end of the verb, and since the verb is usually the last word of the phrase, these wh-words, as they are called, appear phrase finally. Languagehat.com: NARTS FOR CHRISTMAS.
For once I could only think about Becca, the uneasiness growing as I remembered the look in her eyes, and the deliberate way she phrased her last words to me.
Hera punished Echo by making her unable to speak, except to always repeat the last words anybody said to her.
she always gets the last word
The residents ' lounge must surely enshrine the last word in moral censoriousness. PASSION IN THE PEAK
He howled out the last words in a paroxysm of despair.
Palamon's appeal to his kinsman for a last word, "if his heart, _his worthy, manly heart_" (an exact and typical example of Fletcher's tragically prosaic and prosaically tragic dash of incurable commonplace), A Study of Shakespeare
The last words I heard from her were ‘amma come and save me please don't let them take me away.’
did you know that the last word in Lewis & Short is zythum, which is a kind of Egyptian beer? Ancient beer
He was compelled to wait, fine-tuning the elements in his contingency plan, in the sure knowledge that he would have the last word. A SONG AT TWILIGHT
He stresses the last word, and I stare at him indifferently.
her voice was swift, yet ever the last words fell lingeringly
In his last words on Sadat, the author describes him as ‘a visionary, an iconoclast, a maverick, and a gambler’.
He'd said the last word huskily, on purpose, to get her to look up. The Pull of the Moon
He raised his voice a few tones on these last words, giving a passable imitation of his friend, and Telli joined him in laughing.
The origins of Euphuism and of that later form of preciousness which is sometimes called Gongorism and sometimes Marinism have been much discussed, but the last word has certainly not been said on them. A History of Elizabethan Literature
Quoth the Cat, full of wrath, “My breast is strait and my soul is faint: indeed I am in articulo mortis and ere long I shall die at thy door and my blood will be on thy head, for that thou hadst it in thy power to save me in mine extremity: and this is my last word to thee.” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
He -- -- "The last word shrivelled on her lips, which puckered into a confused smile at the warning frown of her brother. Stories of a western town
It was the prince of the dandies himself, George ‘Beau’ Brummell, who, roughly a half century later, brought the new tailcoat from countryside to town and made it the last word for metropolitan day wear.
She cracked on the last word, marring her exit by turning her ankle and falling. DEATH OF A NYMPH
Whispering the last word of the spell, he tapped the picture.
Why did he not take up his last words, "Live in peace," and intonate the blessing? An Obscure Apostle A Dramatic Story
She enunciates the last words carefully as she hands Lucas over to her ex-husband.
It's usually the last words you hear before the punch lands, your head hits the floor and you wet yourself with fear.
Do you suppose Kleinzahler actually wrote "The humor is deadpan, ironical, playfully depreciating" or is that last word a mistranscription of "deprecating"? Languagehat.com: NO USE WHATEVER.
And if it were the last word I utter, all that happened over that has 'hipped' me more than anything. Sparrows: the story of an unprotected girl
All I'm saying is that I'm wary of the assumption that any government gets to have the unscrutinized last word on "who counts. White man speaks

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