thule

• If I am correctly informed it is now close on thirty years since a ship of war put in to Little Loo-Choo, and certainly never before such a squadron as the present But two visits of consequence have taken place during the present century; that of Captain Maxwell in the "Alceste," in 1817; and that of Commodore Perry, of the U.S. navy, in 1853; so that the little we do know of this ultima thule is derivable from these sources. —  In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83
• Eastern colony being the ultima thule of its long wanderings from central Asia. —  A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era
• Gold! the _ultima thule_ of the explorer. —  The Rapids
• Hotel Diana, where we made our toilet, for our habiliments, too, had reached their _ultima thule_. —  The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America
• For generations the South had regarded the uprising of the black, the assertion of his manhood and autonomy, as the _ultima thule_ of possible evil. —  Bricks Without Straw

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