Read full poem →We never crossed before;
Such leagues apart the world's ends are,
We're like to meet no more;
Dictionary Entry
The terminal point of something in space or time.
In a Sentence
“At the end of the road, turn left.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. endsends twoends own
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Poetry examples for “ends”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →to 216. V. How odious Vice in itself, and how we deceive ourselves into
it, v.217. VI. That, however, the Ends of Providence and general Good
are answered in our Passions and Imperfections, v.238, etc. How usefully
Read full poem →In whom a race, for courage famed and art,
Ends in the milder merit of the heart;
And chiefs or sages long to Britain given,
Read full poem →agreeable to the_ general Order _of things, and
conformable to_ Ends _and_ Relations _to him unknown_.
Read full poem →11 Solicitous for others' ends,
Though fond of dear repose;
Read full poem →Muse, 'tis enough: at length thy labour ends,
And thou shalt live, for Buckingham commends,
Read full poem →The chariot now the painful steep ascends,
The paeans cease; thy glorious labour ends.
Here fixed, the bright eternal temple stands,[18]
Read full poem →For when success a lover's toil attends,
Few ask if fraud or force attain'd his ends.
Read full poem →8 And thus, fair maids, my ballad ends;
God send the king safe landing;[77]
Read full poem →air:
And the ends of the earth at the might thereof tremble, and time is
made bare.