Examples
“Indeed, as Kennaston cheerfully recognized, his was not a temperament likely to succeed, as touched material matters, in any imaginable state of society; there was not, and never had been, any workaday world in which -- as he had said at Storisende -- he and his like would not, in so far as temporal prizes were concerned, appear to waste at loose ends and live futilely.”
“I’se just going over some loose ends and was going to type ’em up and send ’em off to Thelma.”
“Inman wrapped his packs with his oilcloth and tied the bundle off tight as he could with the loose ends in case the canoe should sink entirely.”
“I think I told you the other day I was feeling at loose ends and kind of dissatisfied," he said after we had our menus.”
“He stayed but to reap the standing crops of winter grain, dispose of stock, and gather up all the loose ends of business; and left the hills of the Shatemuc, to seek better fortunes on a Western level.”
“One of her critics, himself a novelist of a high order, has said that in its unity of purpose and dramatic expression Silas Marner is more nearly a masterpiece than any other of George Eliot's novels; “it has more of that simple, rounded, consummate aspect, that absence of loose ends and gaping issues, which marks a classical work.””
George Eliot; A Critical Study of Her Life, Writings and Philosophy
“Yaezon told me you're at loose ends at the moment.”
“Some blacks substitute for the barbless point four pieces of thin fencing wire — each about 4 inches long, bound tightly together at one end, the loose ends being sharpened and slightly diverged.”
“At first glance this seems to be a brilliant confirmation of the theory of development, but when more closely examined it is seen that the guiding-thread, which should lead from one point to another, is continually broken and the loose ends cannot readily be connected.”
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fbharjo ends on the loose................... Feb 28, 2012