"
For the last time!" I thought, as I held her to me for a moment longer--"
for the last time!"
Now an impressive pause - then the bugle sang "TAPS" - translatable, this time, into "Good-bye, and God keep us all!" for taps is the soldier's nightly release from duty, and farewell: plaintive, sweet, pathetic, for the morning is never sure, for him; always it is possible that he is hearing it
for the last time. .
Sleep is not always good, no more than food; but remember, I demand of you
for the last time, will you be blooded?"--"I answer you
for the last time," said Jones, "I will not."--"Then I wash my hands of you," cries the doctor; "and I desire you to pay me for the trouble I have had already.
She desired to see you
for the last time, although you refused, so we've been sitting and waiting on that bench till you should pass on your way home."
"I return to it
for the last time; I return to it with a purpose which you will soon understand.
Yet I would ask this, that thou wilt withdraw the kaross from about thee, O King, that
for the last time my eyes may feast themselves upon the body of him whom, above all men, I love."
With these feelings, he was about to revisit London
for the last time, and look once more upon the walls of their old home, before turning his back upon it, for ever.
The minister bowed
for the last time to the altar and the still fresh graves; then, followed by his assistant, he slowly took the road back to the presbytery.
Arnold was silently contemplating,
for the last time, his customary prospects of banishment to the inn, when he became aware that Sir Patrick was making signs to him.
"I'll go to her; I'll ask her; I'll say
for the last time: we are free, and hadn't we better stay so?
Let me state the case to you once more, and
for the last time."
My caprices are at an end, and my violent temper has tried your forbearance
for the last time.