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NO END
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
On and on for a long time
Example:
the child cried no end
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Context examples:
When he was married it was all right, but since he has been a widower we have had no end of trouble with him.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
There's no end to the possibilities in that man—if he weren't so insuperably lazy.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Four sides of incoherent and interjectional beginnings of sentences, that had no end, except blots, were inadequate to afford her any relief.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
If the medical students turn out there will be no end of a rag.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
And then, you know, when once they get together, there is no end of it.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
It cost him no end of time and groans to haul his wounded leg behind him, and I had quietly finished my arrangements before he was much more than a third of the way up.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
“Is there no end then to the wickedness of humankind? He so humble, so aged, so loth to take our money—and yet a villain and a cheat. Whom can we trust or believe in?”
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
At first the thing was merry and pleasant enough; but when it had gone on a while, and there seemed to be no end of playing or dancing, they began to cry out, and beg him to leave off; but he stopped not a whit the more for their entreaties, till the judge not only gave him his life, but promised to return him the hundred florins.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
You have been shut up so long, it will do you no end of good, and I shall enjoy it, of all things.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
The ejaculation in Emma's ear expressed, “Ah! there is no end of the sad consequences of your going to South End. It does not bear talking of.”
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
