fag-end
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3VERB + FAG-END
coming
FAG-END + NOUN
endurance
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upon
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noun
The last remnant.
And though the annals of the period do not shew us that there was less ale drawn, or less canary called for; men got dry with the heat of polemical discussion, and drunk with a text, not the fag end of a ballad, in their mouths; and people made a sort of morality of straight hair, long faces, and sad-coloured garments.
He wanted to drop the gentleman and go down into the ranks, beginning on the lowest rung of the ladder, where no one would know of his disgrace or mind it if he did know; his father and mother on the other hand would wish him to clutch on to the fag-end of gentility at a starvation salary and with no prospect of advancement.
The frayed end of a length of cloth or rope.
The unsmoked end of a cigarette or cigar.
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3And though the annals of the period do not shew us that there was less ale drawn, or less canary called for; men got dry with the heat of polemical discussion, and drunk with a text, not the fag end o
WiktionaryHe wanted to drop the gentleman and go down into the ranks, beginning on the lowest rung of the ladder, where no one would know of his disgrace or mind it if he did know; his father and mother on the
WiktionaryHe was out of his mind, completely and for ever mad, with this sudden shock coming upon the fag-end of his endurance.
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