last
/læst/ particle C2- The (one) immediately before the present. · We went there last year.· I was last to go; you're next.
- Closest in the past, or closest but one if the closest was very recent; of days, sometimes thought to specifically refer to the instance closest to seven days (one week) ago, or the most recent instance before seven days (one week) ago. · It's Wednesday, and the party was last Tuesday; that is, not yesterday, but eight days ago.· When you say last Monday, do you mean the Monday just gone, or the one before that?
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Having at last by guileful speeches succeeded in separating them, he attacked them without fear as they fed alone, and feasted on them one by one at his own leisure.
Marilla could not help tacking on that last sentence, although she was again surprised at herself for doing it.
It was worth while, truly,” added the young man with a melancholy smile, “to make war against the English for ten years, and to die in his bed at last, like everybody else.”
“Let go—and clue up!” At this last command all the sails were lowered, and the vessel moved almost imperceptibly onwards.
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