
See: cudgel, end, extremity, termination


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It is possible, if the sea exists at the South Pole, that it may be covered; and, consequently, we shall be unable to come to the surface.
Besides, Captain," I added, enthusiastically, "why should we not find the sea open at the South Pole as well as at the North?
sent back again; I hope I'm thankful; but I don't like to hear the North Pole run down in such a fishy place as this.
When Tarzan found himself clinging to the pole outside the window, he followed his jungle instinct and looked below for enemies before he ventured down.
Katerina Ivanovna was irritated too by the fact that hardly any of the lodgers invited had come to the funeral, except the Pole who had just managed to run into the cemetery, while to the memorial dinner the poorest and most insignificant of them had turned up, the wretched creatures, many of them not quite sober.
I maka da kids worka da pole an' da hub an' da barrel.
They intimated that there was some band in the neighborhood, and probably a hunting party, as they had lodge poles for an encampment.