Finis

I don't think the word, "Finis" is to be written yet to its career.

Roads to the Future 1936

Finis is written, and your man wanders in strange gardens.

CHAPTER III 2010

There are millions of people pining in bondage, toiling in obscurity, suffering physically and mentally for no crime of their own, sick and hungry, friendless and hopeless; take the book from them that teaches them the lesson of patient endurance, and you may write the word Finis, and close the records of civilization forevermore.

The Jericho Road W. Bion Adkins

Finis is written, and your man wanders in strange gardens.

Chapter 3 1913

While, therefore, the completion of the book was anxiously pressed by many who were eager to possess it, that desirable point has constantly been deferred by the communications of those who were studious to render it more valuable; and the word Finis, has seemed to fly from us, like Italy before the wandering Trojans.

The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay With an Account of the Establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson and Norfolk Island (1789) Arthur Phillip 1776

People who read novels for the denouement, who ride a steeple chase through them, leaping a five-page fence here, a ditch of a chapter there, and anon clearing at a mighty bound a rasper of some score or more paragraphs, resolute simply to be in at the death in the last chapter, anxious to see the wedding torches extinguished, and the printer setting up 'Finis' -- such would find little satisfaction in 'Barren Honor,' almost none in 'Sword and Gown.'

The Continental Monthly, Vol III, Issue VI, June, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

To him his history seemed a thing written, lacking the one word Finis: he had lived and loved and lost -- had arrayed himself insolently against God and

The False Faces Further Adventures from the History of the Lone Wolf Louis Joseph Vance 1906

-- Finis is the Latin word for finish, and here it is the last droll picture -- a Zany laughing at his portrait in this comical book, which he seems vastly to enjoy.

The Royal Picture Alphabet John Leighton 1867

In some cases the titles had been altered: "Finis," for instance, being changed to "The Finish," and "The Song of the Outer Reef" to

Chapter 29 2010

"Finis," he wrote, in capitals, at the end, and to him it was indeed finis.

Chapter 40 2010