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How the Scottish dragon with flames issuing from both ends is blazoned I never did discover.

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  1. noun Either extremity of something that has length: the end of the pier.
  2. noun The outside or extreme edge or physical limit; a boundary: the end of town.
  3. noun The point in time when an action, an event, or a phenomenon ceases or is completed; the conclusion: the end of the day.

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  • No truth can be uttered with more confidence than that his ends were always upright and his means always pure. —  Life and Times of Washington
  • How the Scottish dragon with flames issuing from both ends is blazoned I never did discover. —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol III No 4
  • Not that the padding on the ends was all that heavy. —  The Magic of Recluce
  • Among the qualitatively superior ends are the moral ends, and it is in this that people acquire the sense that they have moral intuitions superior to mere self-interest. —  John Stuart Mill
  • 146: In the procession of all divine things the ends are assimilated to their beginnings, sustaining a circle without beginning and without end by turning to the beginning. —  Dietrich of Freiberg
 

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