A finishing stroke, a final coup.
“Atropos, cutting off the thread of his life, gave an ultimum vale to my good fortune.”—The Seven Chamnous of Christendom, iii. 4.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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