Happiness, therefore, must consist in the last and crowning act of man.

He resolved thereupon that the crowning act of homage should be fulfilled.

It is more than the complement, it is the crowning act.

But the Dred Scott decision is the crowning act of infamous Yankee legislation.

There remained to perform, then, the crowning act in this apparently insane transaction.

And on this crowning act of audacity Verres had the recklessness to venture.

The crowning act of her life militates strongly against Walpole's views.

This noble decision was the crowning act in the undertakings of thousands similarly situated.

The crowning act of Lincoln's career as President was the emancipation of the slaves.

Yet few were prepared for the crowning act of madness.

But the crowning act of the age of discovery was the circumnavigation of the globe.

At last, Herbert Philipson astonished even his own companions by a crowning act of folly.

This revelation of the reaped corn appears to have been the crowning act of the mysteries.

The crowning act of the life of Mme.

This crowning act of kindness brought the tears.

It was to be the crowning act of her self-renunciation, and it strained every fibre of her resolution.