1 The long campaign which had begun when Sherman moved southward from above Dalton, four years before, had finally reached its climax, and the state's humiliation was complete.
2 It was mid-April, and one felt that the revelry had reached its climax and that the desultory groups in the square and gardens would soon dissolve and re-form in other scenes.
3 Bathing and modeling were equally sound occasions for legs; the wedding-scene was but an approach to the thunderous climax when Mr. Schnarken slipped a piece of custard pie into the clergyman's rear pocket.
4 She was a grown young woman when she was overtaken by what she supposed to be the climax of her fate.
5 The climax of it is a furious prestissimo, at which the couples seize hands and begin a mad whirling.
6 There were high squeals and low squeals, grunts, and wails of agony; there would come a momentary lull, and then a fresh outburst, louder than ever, surging up to a deafening climax.
7 The cut bled, the pain was sharp: my terror had passed its climax; other feelings succeeded.
8 Of course these objections wrought my eagerness to a climax: gratified it must be, and that without delay; and I told him so.
9 My surprise reached a climax, however, when I found incidentally that he was ignorant of the Copernican Theory and of the composition of the Solar System.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION 10 Being heated when he arrived at this climax, Josiah Bounderby of Coketown stopped.
11 I add, as the climax, that I have seen an Englishwoman dancing in a wreath of roses and blue spectacles.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER IV—THE BACK ROOM OF THE CAFE MUSAIN 12 The child's terror had reached its climax.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM ... 13 I am, in your opinion, a Lara, a Manfred, a Lord Ruthven; then, just as I am arriving at the climax, you defeat your own end, and seek to make an ordinary man of me.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 88. The Insult. 14 Ona sobbed and wept, her fear and anguish building themselves up into long climaxes.