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Sentences ending with brink

He was on the borderland between life and death; his feet were at the brink. [11]
Some power of suggestion bound his fleeing footsteps, drew him back from the Brink. [11]
A note is handed me from our eminent archivist Bakhuyzen van den Brink. [6]

More example sentences with the word brink in them

She then walked up deliberately and steadily to the brink, stepped into the centre of the flame, sat down, and leaning back in the midst as if reposing upon a couch, was consumed without uttering a shriek or betraying one sign of agony. [5]
The spectacle of this self-command on the brink of such a crucial event as the vestry meeting had taken Langmaid aback more than he cared to show. [9]
She was standing then on the brink of a new and beautiful experience, at the threshold of an acknowledged love. [11]
Many grew in the forest, others on the brink of the water. [10]
The diameter of the crater on the brink of which we stood was said to be an eighth of a mile; but the whole was completely filled with vapor. [4]
I stood on the brink above, secure, as I thought, from observation, when she chanced to look up and spied me. [9]
But I couldn't stand it, and about two o'clock I got up and thought I would give it up and go out in the square where there was one of those tinkling fountains, and sit on its brink and dream, full of romance. [5]
There is no one so lonely as the young dreamer on the brink of life. [11]
Thomas, indeed, stood on the brink of the grave; but he was inspirited and sustained by the hope of seeing his daughter. [10]
Honora was trembling on the brink of a discovery: holding herself back from it, as one who has climbed a fair mountain recoils from the lip of an unsuspected crater at sight of the lazy, sulphurous fumes. [9]
Her own lingered on him shyly, and thus for a moment she hung in doubt whether to flee or stay, her heart throbbing as though she were on the brink of some unknown and momentous adventure. [9]
Only the leader of the herd remained standing on the brink of the ravine, and she knew that he was only awaiting her departure to lead the others down to drink. [10]
On the brink of such a sea her mind seemed to be hovering now. [11]
Still--my house is nearer to the brink of the stream than the dwelling of most others, and if I fling in a loaf, perhaps the current will bear it to the majestic sea. [10]
A skiff was lying close to this rock, between it and the brink of the fall, which was but a few rods farther down. [6]
The German translation is very elegantly and expensively printed in handsome octavos; and the Dutch translation, under the editorship of the archivist general of Holland, Bakhuyzen v. d. Brink, is enriched with copious notes and comments by that distinguished scholar. [6]
But he himself is far from being in accord with "that eminent scholar," M. Bakhuyzen van den Brink, whose name, he says, is celebrated enough to need no comment, or with M. Fruin, of whose impartiality and erudition he himself speaks in the strongest terms. [6]
My distress vanished; I would have felt safe on the brink of Niagara, with Mr. Bixby on the hurricane deck. [5]
Strangely enough in his own eyes was the look in those of Carnac, a past, hovering on the brink of revelation. [11]
If Barine cursed her life there, she would still fare better than she, Iras, who during the past few nights had been on the brink of despair whenever she thought of the man who had disdained her love and abandoned her for another. [10]
Little things which have been said seem to have new meaning now, and I feel"--she smiled significantly--"that I am standing on the brink of some great happening, and only a big secret, like a cloud, prevents me from seeing it, realizing it. [11]
And below the fort, on the gentle sunny slope to the river's brink, was spread the green garden of the garrison, with its sprouting vegetables and fruit trees blooming pink and white. [9]
And how they first stood on the brink and dipped their toes in, and then ran away and when they came back again just wetted their heads and chests? [10]
On the very edge of that, on the lip of it, where the smoke rose, I also saw human shapes; and it seemed as if they stood on the brink of Tartarus and in momently imminent peril. [4]
The house lay behind a newly dug pond filled with water to the brink and with banks still bare of grass. [2]
Whether it had been worth saving was another question; but he had been near to the brink, had looked in, and the animal in him had shrunk back from the precipice in a confused agony of fear. [11]
His ears had been growing keener as he neared the subtle atmosphere of that Brink where man strips himself to the soul for a lonely voyaging, and he waved the woman to the door. [11]
Because, forsooth, I am the nephew of Zeno, the Keeper of the Seal, who is on the brink of despair because he himself knows nothing, not even the veriest trifle. [10]
We came quickly along the river brink, and, skirting the citadel, got clear of it without discovery, though we could see soldiers hurrying past, roused by the firing at the chateau. [11]
The clouds flew across in silence, and the soft green at my feet, with all that grew on tree and bush, in the grass, and by the brink of the pool, made up a peaceful world, innocently fair and full of precious charm. [10]
Here and there a hawk swooped down from the azure to break the surface and bear off a wriggling fish that gleamed like silver, and at eventide we would see at the brink an elk or doe, with head poised, watching us as we drifted. [9]

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