It was just the last sting of a dying wasp.

Then Laura caught him and implanted her last sting:

Then came the last sting.

Yesterday's gangland killing is the " last sting of the dying wasp", the Minister for Justice Mr McDowell claimed today.

The serpent he had nourished in his bosom had at last stung him!

At that last stinging sentence, alarm had jumped to the blear eyes of the former convict.

For a moment he thought she had at last stung his pride into the semblance of haughtiness.

That last stung James to the core.

She noted these various complaints and determined philosophically to answer none of them, although the last stung her to considerable irritation.