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Will try to fix it by myself for now: as a last resort, we can always take it to a grease monkey.

Eyes Wide Shut was the last film to be directed by Stanley Kubrick.

Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […], down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.

The last time I saw him, he was married.

I have received your note dated the 17th last, and am responding to say that[…]

She told him the last news about little Georgy, and how he was gone to spend that very day with his sisters in the country.

In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year.

He is the last person to be accused of theft.

The last person I want to meet is Helen.

More rain is the last thing we need right now.

Japan is the last empire.

Contending for principles of the last importance.

Three contestants will win awards, but the last prize is just a book voucher.

In one word then, unless I could unfold the mystery, I will not wish you to consider me but as the last and lowest of mankind.

The whole community from the patrician master to the last beggar knew that in the five months when the generous bosom of the steppe throbbed with creative life, they must toil for the subsistence of all […]

Lesser, but still important executives had offices without corner windows. The rank below this had offices without windows at all. […] The last rank had desks out in an open room.

Russia is a very different place than here. […] Even the last soldier knows who Malevich was, and what the Black Square is, since they were taught this in school.

We went there last year.

I was last to go; you're next.

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?

Where my brother had stood last night, I now stood.

When we last met, he was based in Toronto.

How long is't now since last yourself and I / Were in a mask?

As I arrived last of all, I'll go last to add the butter last.

last but not least

Pleased with his idol, he commends, admires, / Adores; and, last, the thing adored desires.

Summer seems to last longer each year.

They seem happy now, but that won't last long.

And love will last as pure and whole ⁠As when he loved me here in Time, ⁠And at the spiritual prime Rewaken with the dawning soul.

Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor;[…].

One of the earliest (and biggest) space weather events on record occurred in September 1859, when a massive solar eruption crashed into the Earth's magnetosphere, triggering a geomagnetic storm that lasted for days.

I don't know how much longer we can last without reinforcements.

I muſt to the learned to learne of them, that's as much to ſay, as the Taylor muſt meddle vvith his Laſte, the Shoomaker vvith his needle, the Painter vvith his nets, and the Fiſher vvith his Penſill, I muſt to the learned.

Here's gallants of all ſizes, of all laſts, / Here you may fit your foote, make choyſe of thoſe / VVhome your affection may reioyce in.

Shoomaker, you goe alittle beyond your laſt.

And leſſe matters ſet on the Friers laſts, make ſeely Papiſts beleeue novv, that Proteſtants haue no Churches nor Religion, nor ſcarſely the ſhape of men.

Is he not Duke indeed, ſee hovv he lookes / As if his ſpirit vvere a laſt, or tvvo / Above his veines, and ſtretcht his noble hide.

I ſet my braines vpon an vpright Laſt; tho my vvits be old, yet they are like a vvitherd pippin, vvholſome.

Let firm, vvell-hammer'd Soles protect thy Feet / Thro' freezing Snovvs, and Rains, and ſoaking Sleet. / Should the big Laſte extend the Shoe too vvide, / Each Stone vvill vvrench th' unvvary Step aſide: […]

Occasionally, there is a drowsy sound from some lone weaver's shuttle, or shoemaker's last, but it is stifled by the thick walls and heavy dungeon-door, and only serves to make the general stillness more profound.

How is an in-your-face black leather thigh-high lace-up boot with a four-inch spike heel like a man's black calf lace-up oxford? They are both made on a last, the wood or plastic foot-shaped form that leather is stretched over and shaped to make a shoe.

to last a boot

I now begin to last the boot, shoe, or clog with a wax thread, in the same way as boot or shoemakers brace the toe-part of a boot or shoe down to the inner sole, but no nails or tacks must be used, […]

Sport cycling shoes are lasted on semi-curved or semi-straight lasts much like walking and hiking shoes.

Now we so quietly followed our businesse, that in three moneths wee made three or foure Last of Tarre, Pitch, and Sope ashes [...].

The last of wool is twelve sacks.

1942 (1601), T D Mutch, The First Discovery of Australia, page 14, The tonnage of the Duyfken of Harmensz's fleet is given as 25 and 30 lasten.