Every tragedy falls into two parts,--Complication and Unravelling orDenouement. Incidents extraneous to the action are frequently combined with a portion of the action proper, to form the Complication; the rest is the Unravelling.

That same day all America heard of the affair of Captain Nicholl and President Barbicane, as well as its singulardenouement .

Her story was as full of desperation and despair as her limited acquaintance with those uncomfortable emotions enabled her to make it, and having located it in Lisbon, she wound up with an earthquake, as a striking and appropriatedenouement. The manuscript was privately dispatched, accompanied by a note, modestly saying that if the tale didn't get the prize, which the writer hardly dared expect, she would be very glad to receive any sum it might be considered worth.

But with thedenouement of the scene he threw off all restraint, and laughed aloud.

These complications of Seldon and Marchiali - the complications first of setting at liberty and then imprisoning again, the complications arising from the strong likeness in question - had at last found a very properdenouement .

"My paper was an early edition," Bransome answered, "but it spoke of a sensationaldenouement within the next few hours.

D'Artagnan, whose mind was never more fertile in resources than in critical emergencies, swore again that he would try all conceivable means to prevent thedenouement of the bloody tragedy.

Had not my mind been so full of Polina, I should have given myself up to the comical piquancy of the impendingdenouement, and laughed my fill at it.

Several other passengers had drawn toward the scene of the altercation, and all awaited thedenouement.

Nevertheless, one or two of the most excellent women I have ever known, have been French governesses, though I do not choose to reveal what this particular individual of the class turned out to be in the end, until the moment for thedenouement of her character shall regularly arrive.

He was not sorry for thedenouement of his visit: he only wished it had come sooner, and spared him a certain waste of emotion.

All about the carriage were gathered the children from a dozen blocks, waiting and eager for some tragic and terribledenouement. Carriages were seen on their street only for weddings and funerals.